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Jerry Mitrovica, MacArthur genius grant recipient

Harvard’s Mitrovica awarded MacArthur ‘genius grant’

Geophysics professor honored for work on sea-level change patterns

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DateSeptember 25, 2019October 9, 2019

Sunil Amrith, the Mehra Family Professor of South Asian Studies, has been awarded a MacArthur “Genius” Grant for his research focusing on migration in South and Southeast Asia.

‘Genius’-level honor for Harvard historian

MacArthur Fellowship gives Sunil Amrith chance to pursue dream projects

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DateOctober 11, 2017October 12, 2017

Matthew Desmond, the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, and Beth Stevens, an assistant professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School and neuroscientist at Boston Children’s Hospital, have been named MacArthur Fellows.

Two named MacArthur Fellows

Urban sociologist, brain researcher win major grants to further groundbreaking work

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DateSeptember 29, 2015March 11, 2019

Harvard Professor of Economics Raj Chetty (left) and Benjamin Warf, associate professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School and director of the Neonatal and Congenital Anomaly Neurosurgery Program at Children’s Hospital Boston, have received 2012 MacArthur Foundation fellowships, more commonly known as “genius grants.”

Economist, neurosurgeon win MacArthurs

Harvard’s Raj Chetty, Benjamin Warf tackled real-world problems

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DateOctober 1, 2012May 16, 2019

Three Harvard professors are among the 2011 MacArthur Fellows. They include economist Roland Fryer Jr. (from left), physicist Markus Greiner, and clinical psychologist Matthew K. Nock.

Three named MacArthur Fellows

Harvard's Fryer, Greiner, and Nock honored with ‘genius’ grants

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DateSeptember 20, 2011June 4, 2019

Two Harvard faculty members have been named recipients of prestigious MacArthur Foundation “genius” grants. Lola England de Valpine Professor of Applied Mathematics Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan (left) and Assistant Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences Peter Huybers will both receive a no-strings-attached grant of $500,000.

Mahadevan, Huybers named MacArthur Fellows

Everyday science, glaciation experts draw ‘genius’ grants

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DateSeptember 22, 2009