MacArthur Genius Grant

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.

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Health & Safety

'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.

Patrick Awuah is one of this year's MacArthur "genius" grant winners. The former Microsoft engineer was honored for establishing a new kind of school in his native Ghana.

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Education

Setting Up Ghana's First Liberal Arts College Makes Him A 'Genius'

10:12pm October 14, 2015

by Vicky Hallett

Patrick Awuah left his job as a Microsoft engineer to establish a new kind of school for his country. That accomplishment has now earned him a "genius grant" of $625,000 from the MacArthur Foundation.