MacArthur Fellow

Here's who made the 2024 MacArthur Fellows list

12:01pm October 01, 2024

This year, filmmaker Sterlin Harjo, poet Jericho Brown and disability rights activist Alice Wong are among the recipients of the so-called "genius grants." Each fellow receives $800,000.

Priti Krishtel, a 2022 MacArthur fellowship winner, says of her work to create fair drug prices for the world: "I just don't think that people's ability to heal should depend on their ability to pay." Her father worked in the pharmaceutical industry and inspired in her a love of science and finding cures.

Health & Safety

This MacArthur 'genius' grantee says she isn't a drug price rebel but she kind of is

5:23pm October 13, 2022

by Max Barnhart

Health justice lawyer Priti Krishtel doesn't believe your ability to heal should depend on your ability to pay. Her mission is to reform the patent system that drug companies use to block competition.

Betsy Levy Paluck is a psychology professor at Princeton University. She ran a year-long experiment in Rwanda to see whether radio soap operas could be used to reduce prejudice.

'Genius Grant' Winner Used A Soap Opera To Prove A Point About Prejudice

2:00am October 11, 2017

by Maanvi Singh

Betsy Levy Paluck is a newly minted MacArthur fellow. Her research in Rwanda looked at how people become more tolerant.

Rebecca Richards-Kortum is a "genius grant" winner with a very busy schedule. The engineering professor, who encourages students to come up with medical devices that will be valuable in the developing world, is the mother of six and a marathon runner.

Science

'Genius Grant' Winner Is A Genius At Inspiring Students

11:52am September 22, 2016

by Jason Beaubien

Engineering professor Rebecca Richards-Kortum wins a MacArthur Fellowship for inspiring her students to invent medical devices for the developing world.

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Arts

MacArthur 'Genius Grant' Winner Ben Lerner To Speak At WFU

7:04am April 12, 2016

by Bethany Chafin

A reading Tuesday night in Winston-Salem will likely examine and blur the lines between nonfiction and fiction, reality and art, the present and the future.

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