For five months, Susan Ercolino says she was afraid to close her eyes. Night after night, she stayed half-awake in and around MacArthur Park — flinching at footsteps, jolting at voices, scanning ...

Brown University professor and cultural anthropologist Ieva Jusionyte is one of this year's MacArthur fellowship winners for her work exploring political and moral ambiguities of border regions. One ...

A political scientist who studies what helps people connect across differences. A novelist whose books about Native American communities in Oakland, California, sparked a passionate following. A ...

An Oakland novelist and scientists from UC Berkeley and Stanford are among the 22 fellows selected this year by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and announced Wednesday. The ...

Johns Hopkins University political scientist Hahrie Han has won a 2025 “genius” grant, the MacArthur Foundation announced Wednesday. Han, 50, is one of 22 winners internationally who will receive an ...

Two University of Wisconsin-Madison professors are among a select group of newly annointed geniuses. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation named atmospheric scientist Ángel Adames ...

On Wednesday morning, as has been happening annually since 1981, a small number of people have had their lives changed. This year, there are 22 of them, a group that has been formally announced as ...

A mathematician in Cambridge, a cultural anthropologist in Providence, a cartographer in Rockland, Maine, and a basketmaker in Eddington, Maine, are among 22 national winners of “genius” grants ...

In 2024, the researcher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was one of the first scientists in the country to realize something new was happening: "I was going through [reports] ...

A Harvard mathematician and two Massachusetts graduates were chosen as 2025 MacArthur Fellows and honored with a “genius” grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, according to a ...

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced its 2025 class of fellows on Wednesday, a prize often called the “genius award.” The MacArthur fellows receive a $800,000 prize paid out ...

Hahrie Han, a political scientist at Johns Hopkins University and inaugural director of the university's SNF Agora Institute, has been named one of 22 recipients of a 2025 MacArthur Fellowship, among ...