It is one of the most prestigious awards in the arts and sciences. The pool of candidates is a secret, and you can't be nominated. A sweet cash prize is what it is. Each of this year's 25 MacArthur fellows will receive $800,000, a "no strings attached" award to "super talented and creative individuals as an investment in their potential," according to the foundation's website. An ornithologist, a cellist, a computer scientist, and a human rights activists are part of this year'sgeniuses class. The fellows can change careers or purchase a house.
The fellows are from the year 2022.
Carlson studies the causes of gun ownership and gun culture in the United States. WBUR talked to Carlson in 2021.
Paul Chan is an artist who is trying to make human experience available for critical reflection and to effect social change.
Artificial intelligence systems that can understand language and make inferences about the world are developed by a computer scientist at the University of Washington.
The Colored Conventions Project is a literary historian and digital humanist who specializes in "nineteenth century collective Black organizing efforts through initiatives such as the Colored Conventions Project." WPSU had an interview with Foreman in 2020.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has a synthetic inorganic chemist named Danna Freedman.
Martha Gonzalez is a musician, scholar and artist/activist who works in the service of social justice.
Sky Hopinka is an artist and filmmaker who combines iconography and language in films and videos that offer new strategies of representation for the expression of Indigenous worldviews.
June Huh is a mathematician who studies the underlying connections between different areas of mathematics.
A researcher at the University of Texas, Austin, is an astronomer who isvisioning transparent and collaborative solutions for creating a circular space economy.
The environmental engineer at the University of Georgia is researching the scale and pathways of plastic pollution. Jambeck was spoken to by NPR in the year.
Monica Kim is a historian who examines the interplay between U.S. foreign policy, military intervention, processes of decolonization and individual rights.
Robin Wall Kimmerer is a plant ecologist at the State University of New York at Syracuse. Kimmerer was interviewed by Wisconsin Public Radio.
Priti Krishtel is a health justice lawyer with the Initiative for Medicines, Access, and Knowledge in Oakland, CA. Krishtel was a guest on a radio show.
Joseph Drew Lanham is an ornithologist, naturalist, and writer who is creating a new model of conservativism. An episode of StoryCorp was aired in 2019.
Kiese Laymon is a writer who is witness to the many forms of violence that mark the Black experience in formally inventive fiction and nonfiction. Laymon was spoken to by NPR in the year18.
The long-term consequences that incarceration and re-entry systems have on the lives of individuals and their families is the subject of a study by a sociologist at the University of Chicago. Miller was talked to by WHYY's Fresh Air in 2020.
Ikue Mori is an electronic music composer and performer who uses percussion in improvised music.
Steven Prohira is a physicist at the University of Kansas who is challenging conventional theories and engineering new tools to detect ultra-high energy sub-atomic particles that could hold clues to long- held mysteries of our universe.
"Forging a unique jazz sound that draws from a range of musical traditions and expanding the expression of the cello in improvised music" is how Tomeka Reid describes her work. The album was reviewed by Fresh Air.
A reproductive justice and human rights advocate is at Smith College. Ross talked about calling people in on the radio show.
Steven Ruggles of the University of Minnesota is a historical demographer who is setting new standards in quantitative historical research by building the world's largest publicly- available database of population statistics. The role of extended family in American life was discussed by Lynn Neary on Talk of the Nation.
A conceptual artist from New York, NY and Nassau, The Bahamas, is expanding the possibilities for what art can be and illuminating overlooked contributions of marginalized figures.
Emily Wang is a primary care physician and researcher at the Yale University School of Medicine who works with people recently released from prison to address their needs. Wang spoke to Morning Edition about how people who are released from prisons are more likely to die.
An artist and architect from Chicago, Illinois, is trying to expose the complex ways that value, both cultural and economic, intersects with race in the built environment. Williams spoke about how color can bring new life to old houses.
Melanie Matchett Wood is a mathematician at Harvard University. Matchett Wood was a graduate student at the time, and she spoke to NPR about how girls and boys are 888-609- 888-609- 888-609- 888-609-
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