A sociologist is trying to understand what drives people to own guns, an astronomer is trying to make sure satellites don't crash into each other, and a lawyer is trying to expose inequalities in the patent system
The 25 winners of the fellowship were announced on Wednesday. If not all household names, they are respected in their fields. In addition to being celebrated for their work, they will have more funding to continue.
The award is known as the "genius" award and comes with no strings attached. The stipend for the new group of fellows has gone up.
Some timely topics are being tackled by scholars. The motives and assumptions that shape gun culture in America are investigated by a woman. The class taught by the activist is about fighting cancel culture. Computational linguistics is one of the things Yejin Choi uses to help detect fake news.
Professor Choi didn't think much of himself. I didn't think the award was for me.
She said she had to overcome a lot. I had a syndrome called imposter syndrome.
Those who show exceptional creativity in their work and the prospect for still more in the future are the intended recipients of the fellowship.
The purpose has always been to provide recipients with unrestricted financial support so that they may further their creative work and their creative inclinations with as much freedom as possible.
The prestige and mystique of the MacArthurs are few and far between. Potential fellows can't apply but are suggested by a network of hundreds of anonymous nominators from across the country and narrowed down by a committee of about a dozen people.
Professor Ross received a call from the foundation. She thought someone wanted an employment reference when she told them she had to teach at 1:45.
The caller didn't get time to explain. She doesn't drive and talk.
The foundation was told to call back at 1:45 p.m.
Professor Ross said that he felt honored and confused. They told me a month ago, and I had to keep it all to myself.
The work that the winners did felt urgent. One of the researchers who provided the first estimate of the amount of plastic waste entering the ocean annually is an environmental engineer by the name of Jenna Jam Beck.
The Astrodynamicist is an advocate for space environmentalism, which calls for treating Earth's orbit, which now contains almost 30,000 human made objects, as a finite natural resource.
Priti Krishtel is a lawyer who is trying to change the patent system to make it harder for pharmaceutical companies to file multiple patents on small changes to existing drugs.
The study of the past is the urgent work in some instances. The Colored Conventions Project is a digital initiative that documents Black organizing efforts in the 19th and 20th century.
White-led movements for social change can be seen as overshadowing Black brilliance, Black leadership and Black organizational capacity in the public square.
We don't know about Black-led movements. She said that the convention dealt with issues like equal pay, labor rights, voting rights and other issues that remain pressing almost two centuries later.
Multiple artists are in the class The Museum of Modern Art featured an installation by the artist. The use of percussion in improvised music has been changed over the years by musicians like Ikue Mori.
Steven Prohira is 35 years old and is a physicist. Professor Ross and Robin Wall Kimmerer are the oldest, at 69 years old, and they are known for their scientific research and the knowledge they have gained from working with Indigenous peoples.
Steven Ruggles is a fellow. He built the world's largest database of population statistics.
He said that he is older and has already procured grant money. He admitted that it was a "humbling thing."
The artists Paul Chan and Sky Hopinka, the mathematicians June Huh and Melanie Matchett Wood, and the writer Kiese Laymon are all fellows.
A computer scientist with expertise in natural language processing has focused much of her recent research on common sense and reasoning and developing artificial intelligence systems that can reason with that common sense.
She said that people looked down on her and that someone had once tried to convince her that studying common sense was not a good idea.
She said that getting a MacArthur has made her feel better. She said that the person who sought her out at the conference asked her years later to recommend reading for a class. What's the topic of the class? It's common sense.
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