Health Mar 24 Racism undermines the health of Black Americans. This physician-economist is looking for solutions Racism continues to exact a major toll on Americans and the U.S. as a society, especially within Black and brown communities. Physician-economist Dr. Marcella Alsan's research has been recognized with a MacArthur Foundation genius grant for her work in exploring… By Laura Santhanam
Science Mar 18 Our past and future is written in Earth’s landscape. Here’s how one geomorphologist is reading it Taylor Perron seeks to answer questions about Earth's past and future by reading landscapes from our world and out in the solar system. By Isabella Isaacs-Thomas
Arts Jan 13 Watch 6:23 Married MacArthur ‘geniuses’ explore border policy and immigration Last year’s MacArthur Fellow recipients were among the most diverse since the foundation started giving the so-called “genius” awards 40 years ago. Two of the recent grantees are married Latino filmmakers, looking at migration and U.S. border policy. Jeffrey Brown… By Jeffrey Brown, Lena I. Jackson
Nation Sep 28 Here are this year’s MacArthur fellows and ‘genius grant’ recipients The Chicago-based John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation on Tuesday announced the 25 recipients, who will each receive $625,000. By Don Babwin, Associated Press
Apr 09 Wastewater is the infrastructure crisis ‘people don’t want to talk about’ By Isabella Isaacs-Thomas 2020 MacArthur Fellow Catherine Coleman Flowers spoke to the PBS NewsHour about her vision for a future that centers and solves water infrastructure issues across communities. Continue reading
Oct 11 Why MacArthur ‘genius’ Viet Thanh Nguyen says writers should make people uncomfortable By Elizabeth Flock Nguyen was chosen for his writing "challenging popular depictions of the Vietnam War and exploring the myriad ways that war lives on," the foundation said. Continue reading
Oct 11 Why MacArthur ‘genius’ Kate Orff says designing for nature can protect our cities By Julia Griffin Twenty-five years ago, Kate Orff didn’t know what landscape architecture was. Today, her approach to promoting the environment in urban design earned her a 2017 MacArthur “Genius” grant. Continue reading
Oct 11 10 ways this year’s MacArthur Fellows find their ‘genius’ By Teresa Carey, Patty Gorena Morales How does someone become a so-called “genius”? We reached out to a few of them to ask about their “secret sauce.”… Continue reading
Oct 21 MacArthur Fellow Ellen Bryant Voigt on the poetry of small-town life By Mary Jo Brooks Poet Ellen Bryant Voigt described herself as a "glass-half-empty kind of girl" in one of her poems -- but she's optimistic about the future of poetry. Continue reading