Tag: MacArthur Foundation

  • Nation & World

    Imani Perry, Jason Buenrostro land MacArthur ‘genius grants’

    One for interdisciplinary interpretations on history, culture of Black America, the other for pathbreaking technologies to advance study of gene expression.

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    Imani Perry and Jason Buenrostro.
  • Nation & World

    Harvard’s Isaiah Andrews awarded a MacArthur

    Harvard Professor Isaiah Andrews is honored with a MacArthur for his work in econometrics.

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    Isaiah Andrews.
  • Nation & World

    Harvard’s Mitrovica awarded MacArthur ‘genius grant’

    Jerry X. Mitrovica, the Frank Baird Jr. Professor of Science in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard, was awarded a “genius grant” by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

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    Jerry Mitrovica, MacArthur genius grant recipient
  • Nation & World

    Economist, neurosurgeon win MacArthurs

    Raj Chetty, professor of economics, and Benjamin Warf, a neurosurgeon at Children’s Hospital Boston and associate professor at Harvard Medical School, are among 23 recipients of this year’s MacArthur Foundation fellowships, or “genius grants.”

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    HLS dean elected to MacArthur board

    Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow has been elected to serve on the MacArthur Foundation board of directors.

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    Tailored to fit

    The dramatic diversity of columbine flowers can be explained by a simple change in cell shape. To match the pollinators’ probing tongues, the flowers’ cells in floral spurs elongate, driving rapid speciation.

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  • Nation & World

    Three named MacArthur Fellows

    Three Harvard faculty members — Roland Fryer Jr., Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics; Markus Greiner, associate professor of physics; and Matthew K. Nock, professor of psychology — are among the recipients of this year’s MacArthur Foundation fellowships, also know as “genius” grants.

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    What’s behind the predictably loopy gut

    Between conception and birth, the human gut grows more than two meters long, looping and coiling within the tiny abdomen. Within a given species, the developing vertebrate gut always loops into the same formation — however, until now, it has not been clear why.

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    Gordon-Reed wins MacArthur Award

    Harvard Professor Annette Gordon-Reed wins MacArthur award, which she plans to use to further her research on race in America.

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    The art of science

    Susan Mango, professor of molecular and cellular biology and MacArthur award winner, brings her unorthodox approach to research.

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    Faust calls global health one of her main priorities

    Declaring the University’s efforts to improve the state of global health knowledge, education, and capacity building to be one of her “very highest priorities” as president of Harvard, Drew Faust today (May 18) announced the appointment of Sue J. Goldie, Roger Irving Lee Professor of Public Health and director of the Center for Health Decision…

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    Berkman Center receives $4M gift from MacArthur Foundation

    The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has awarded the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School a $4 million gift in support of the center’s second decade. This is the single largest gift from a foundation in the Berkman Center’s history.

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    Light and matter united

    Lene Hau has already shaken scientists’ beliefs about the nature of things. Albert Einstein and just about every other physicist insisted that light travels 186,000 miles a second in free space, and that it can’t be speeded-up or slowed down. But in 1998, Hau, for the first time in history, slowed light to 38 miles…

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    MacArthur Foundation awards $3 million to Berkman Center, OpenNet Initiative

    The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has awarded $3 million to the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and its partners to advance their collaborative study of state-sponsored Internet filtering worldwide through the OpenNet Initiative.

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