- Terence Tao
Terence Chi-Shen Tao is an Australian mathematician working primarily on harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, combinatorics, analytic number theory and representation theory. A child prodigy, Tao is currently a professor of mathematics at UCLA. He was promoted to a full professor at age 24. In August 2006, he was awarded the Fields Medal. Just one month later, in September 2006, he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. - Charles Simic
Charles Simic (born May 9, 1938) is a Serbian-American poet. Having emigrated in his youth from Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Simic represents an interesting counterpoint to many North American contemporaries, so many of whom have evolved from the traditions of American 19th century writers such as Dickinson and Whitman, both of whom wrote about the details of the world surrounding them. - Amory Lovins
Amory Bloch Lovins is a "consultant experimental physicist" with an MA in physics from Oxford. He is Chairman and Chief Scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute, a MacArthur Fellowship recipient (1994), and author and co-author of books which make arguments for and popularize energy-efficiency principles to public and corporate audiences. Lovins' works include "Winning the Oil Endgame", "Factor Four" with Hunter Lovins and Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, … - Mike Davis
Mike Davis (born 1946) is an American social commentator, urban theorist, historian, and political activist. He is best known for his investigations of power and social class in his native Southern California. Born in Fontana, California and raised in El Cajon, California, Davis' education was punctuated by stints as a meat cutter, truck driver, and a Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) activist. - Bill T. Jones
Bill T. Jones is an American artistic director, choreographer and dancer based in New York City. He is the recipient of the 2007 Tony Award, the 2005 Wexner Prize, the 2005 Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival Award for Lifetime Achievement and the 2003 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, as well as a 1994 MacArthur Fellowship. Jones began his dance training at the State University of New York at Binghamton (SUNY), studying classical ballet and modern dance. - Edward P. Jones
Edward P. Jones is an African American author and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Born in 1951, he was raised in Washington, D.C. and educated at both the College of the Holy Cross and the University of Virginia. He won both the Pen/Hemingway Award and the Lannan Foundation Grant for his first book, "Lost in the City", a collection of short stories on the African American working class of the 20th century Washington, … - Sarah Ruhl
Sarah Ruhl (born 1974) is an American playwright. She studied under Paula Vogel at Brown University and currently lives in New York. Ruhl gained widespread recognition for her play "The Clean House", a romantic comedy about a physician who cannot convince her depressed Brazilian maid to clean her house. It won the prestigious Susan Smith Blackburn Prize in 2004. It was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2005. - Colson Whitehead
Colson Whitehead (full name Arch Colson Chipp Whitehead) is a New York-based novelist. In 2002, he received a MacArthur Fellowship, often referred to as the MacArthur "Genius" grant. He was born in New York City in 1969, attended the Trinity School in New York, and graduated from Harvard College in 1991. He is a journalist whose work has appeared in numerous publications, including "The New York Times", "Salon" and "The Village Voice". - Mary Zimmerman
Mary Zimmerman is a member of the Lookingglass Theatre Company and is an Artistic Associate of the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Illinois. She received her BS, MA and PhD from Northwestern University, where she is currently a faculty member in the Performance Studies department. She has earned national and international recognition in the form of numerous awards, including the prestigious John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship (1998). - Ann Hamilton
Ann Hamilton (born June 22, 1956, Lima, Ohio) is a contemporary American artist best known for her installations, textile art, and sculptures, but is also known to work with video and video installation. She trained in textile design at the University of Kansas and later received an MFA from Yale University in sculpture. She taught at the University of California at Santa Barbara from 1985 to 1991 and won the MacArthur Fellowship in 1993. - Anna Deavere Smith
Anna Deavere Smith (born September 18, 1950, in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American actress, playwright, and professor in the Department of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. She formerly taught in the drama department at Stanford University. Smith is best known as the author of "Fires in the Mirror", which dealt with the 1991 Crown Heights Riot, and "Twilight: Los Angeles 1992", … - Bill Strickland
Bill Strickland (b. 1947) is the founder and CEO of the Manchester Craftsmen's Guild, an innovative agency in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania that uses the arts to inspire inner-city teenagers. Strickland, a winner of a MacArthur Fellowship "genius" award), started the Manchester Craftmen's Guild while still an undergraduate in 1968 at the University of Pittsburgh. He added the Bidwell Training Center in 1972. - Thomas Pynchon
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr. (born May 8, 1937) is an American writer based in New York City. He is noted for his dense and complex works of fiction. Hailing from Long Island, Pynchon spent two years in the United States Navy and earned an English degree from Cornell University. After publishing several short stories in the late 1950s and early 1960s, he began composing the novels for which he is best known today: "V." (1963), "The Crying of Lot 49" (1966), … - Erik Demaine
Erik Demaine (b. February 28, 1981, in Halifax, Nova Scotia), is an associate professor of Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His childhood was spent traveling North America with his father, Martin Demaine, an artist and sculptor; he was home-schooled. Erik entered Dalhousie University at the age of 12, and completed his bachelor's degree when only 14. His Ph.D., … - Andrea Barrett
Andrea Barrett (b. November 16, 1954) is an acclaimed American writer. Barrett received her B.A. in biology from Union College and briefly attended a Ph.D. program in zoology. She began writing fiction seriously in her thirties, but was relatively unknown until the publication of "Ship Fever", a collection of short stories which won the National Book Award in 1996. - John D. MacArthur
John Donald MacArthur (March 6, 1897 - January 6, 1978) was an American businessman and philanthropist who established the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, benefactor in the MacArthur Fellowships. MacArthur made his fortune in the insurance business; in 1935, he acquired the Bankers Life and Casualty Company for $2,500. In subsequent years, he built up a business empire through acquisitions of many small insurance corporations. - Karen Hesse
Karen Hesse, born August 29, 1952, in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, is an author of children's literature and literature for young adults. She is best known as a writer of historical fiction. She has received many awards, including a MacArthur Fellowship in 2002, and the 1998 Newbery medal for her book "Out of the Dust", a story of a girl living through the dust bowl of the depression. - Xiao Qiang
Xiao Qiang is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of China Digital Times, a Berkeley based China news portal, and the director of the China Internet Project at the Graduate School of Journalism of University of California at Berkeley. Xiao teaches classes on Participatory Media/Collective Action and Blogging China in both the Graduate School of Journalism and the School of Information of University of California at Berkeley. - Daphne Koller
Daphne Koller is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University and a MacArthur Fellowship recipient. Her general research area is artificial intelligence. Koller was featured in an article by MIT Technology Review titled "10 Emerging Technologies That Will Change Your World" concerning the topic of Bayesian Machine Learning. Koller completed her Ph.D. at Stanford in 1993 under the supervision of Joseph Halpern, … - Jane Lubchenco
Lubchenco will serve as head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Much of her research has focused on climate change, ecosystems, and marine reserves. She was also one of the scientists that launched the think tank Climate Central ( www.climatecentral.org ). - Susan E. Alcock
Susan Alcock is a Roman archaeologist specializing in survey archaeology and the archaeology of memory in the provinces of the Roman empire. Alcock grew up in Massachusetts and was educated at Yale and the University of Cambridge. *B.A., Archaeology and History, Yale University, 1983 *B.A., Classics, University of Cambridge, 1985 *M.A., Classics, University of Cambridge 1989 *Ph.D., Classics, … - Peter Gleick
Dr. Peter Gleick President - Gary Paul Nabhan
Gary Paul Nabhan (1952-) is an ecologist, ethnobotanist, and writer whose work has focused primarily on the plants and cultures of the desert Southwest. A first generation Lebanese-American, Nabhan was raised in Gary, Indiana. He served as Director of Science at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum and co-founded Native Seeds/SEARCH, a nonprofit conservation organization that works to preserve indigenous southwestern agricultural plants as well as knowledge of their uses. - Thylias Moss
Thylias Moss is an African American poet, writer, and playwright, who has published a number of poetry collections, children’s books, and plays. Among her awards are a MacArthur Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Artist's Fellowship from the Massachusetts Arts Council, and the Witter Bynner Award for poetry. - Susan Meiselas
Susan Meiselas (born 1948) is an American photographer. Meiselas was born in Baltimore, Maryland. After taking a BA at Sarah Lawrence College and an MA at Harvard University, she joined Magnum Photos co-operative in 1976 and has worked as a freelance photographer since then. In 1981, she visited a village destroyed by the armed forces in San Salvador and took pictures of the El Mozote massacre. In 1992, Meiselas was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. - Elaine Pagels
Elaine Pagels, is the Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, she is best known for her studies and writing on the gnostic gospels. - Paul Ginsparg
Paul Ginsparg is a physicist widely known for his development of the ArXiv.org e-print archive. Since 2001, he has been a professor of Physics and Computing & Information Science at Cornell University. The pre-print archive was developed while he was a member of staff of Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1990-2001. He has been awarded the P.A.M. (physics astronomy math) Award from the Special Libraries Association, named a Lingua Franca "Tech 20", … - Amos Tversky
Amos Tversky (March 16, 1937 - June 2, 1996) was a pioneer of cognitive science, a longtime collaborator of Daniel Kahneman, and a key figure in the discovery of systematic human cognitive bias and handling of risk. Much of his early work concerned the foundations of measurement. He was co-author of a three-volume treatise, Foundations of Measurement (recently reprinted). His early work with Kahneman focused on the psychology of prediction and probability judgment. - Linda Bierds
Linda Bierds (1945-) is an American poet and professor of English and creative writing at the University of Washington, where she also received her B.A. in 1969. She was born in Deleware and now lives on Bainbridge Island. Her books include "Flights of the Harvest Mare"; "The Stillness, the Dancing"; "Heart and Perimeter"; and "The Ghost Trio" (Henry Holt 1994). She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, … - Bonnie Bassler
Bonnie L. Bassler is a professor of molecular biology at Princeton University. She made key insights into the mechanism by which bacteria communicate, known as quorum sensing. In 2002 she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. Dr. Bassler was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2006. - Charles MacArthur
Charles MacArthur (b. November 5 1895, Scranton, Pennsylvania; d. April 21 1956, New York City) was an American playwright and screenwriter. The son of to a Baptist minister, he is best known for his plays with Ben Hecht, "Twentieth Century" and "The Front Page", which has been filmed frequently. It was based in part on MacArthur's experiences at the City News Bureau of Chicago. MacArthur also co-wrote, with Edward Sheldon, a play called "Lulu Belle", … - Stuart Kauffman
Stuart Alan Kauffman (born September 28, 1939) is a theoretical biologist and complex systems researcher, who has given much thought to the origin of life on Earth. He is best known for arguing that the complexity of biological systems and organisms might result as much from self-organization and far-from-equilibrium dynamics as from Darwinian natural selection. - Dave Hickey
Dave Hickey is one of the best known American art and cultural critics practising today. He has written for many major American publications including "Rolling Stone", "Art News", "Art in America", "Artforum", "Harper's Magazine", and "Vanity Fair". He is currently Professor of English at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. - Mark Danner
Mark Danner has written about international affairs, human rights and foreign wars for more than 20 years. He has covered Central America, Haiti, the Balkans and Iraq, among many other stories. A longtime staff writer for The New Yorker, Danner is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books. - Jennifer Richeson
Jennifer Richeson is an African-American psychologist who studies racial identity and interracial interactions. She currently works at Northwestern University in its psychology and African-American studies departments. She recently won a MacArthur Fellowship, also known as a "genius grant." Dr. Richeson completed a B.S. in psychology at Brown University and earned her Ph.D. in social psychology at Harvard University. - Persi Diaconis
Persi Warren Diaconis (born January 31, 1945) is an American mathematician and former professional magician. He is Mary V. Sunseri professor of statistics and professor of mathematics at Stanford University. He is particularly known for tackling mathematical problems involving randomness and randomization, such as coin flipping and shuffling playing cards. Professor Diaconis achieved brief national fame when he received a MacArthur Fellowship in 1979, … - George Perle
George Perle (born May 6, 1915 in Bayonne, New Jersey) is a composer and music theorist who has studied with Ernst Krenek. He composes with a technique of his own devising called twelve-tone tonality, which is different from, but related to, twelve tone technique (Perle, 1992). - Robert Greenstein
Robert Greenstein is founder and executive director of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), a Washington, DC think tank that focuses on federal and state fiscal policy and public programs affect low- and moderate-income families and individuals. According to his CBPP bio, Greenstein is "an expert on the federal budget and in particular, the impact of tax and budget proposals on low-income people". Greenstein was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 1996. - Deborah Meier
Deborah Meier is often considered the founder of the modern small schools movement. After spending several years as a kindergarten teacher in Chicago, Philadelphia and then New York City, in 1974 Meier became the founder and director of the alternative Central Park East school, which embraced progressive ideals in the tradition of John Dewey in an effort to provide better education for "inner-city" children in East Harlem, within the New York City public school system. - Peter Shor
Peter W. Shor (born August 14, 1959) is an American theoretical computer scientist most famous for his work on quantum computation, in particular for devising a quantum algorithm for factoring exponentially faster than the best currently-known algorithm running on a classical computer (see Shor's algorithm). He was working then at AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1994. Currently, he is a professor of applied mathematics at MIT, …
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