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NEW YORK, NY – Shailaja Paik, a distinguished historian and professor at the University of Cincinnati, is among this year’s group of 22 MacArthur Fellowship recipients. The prestigious award ...

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She also collaborates on modeling and optimization problems in medical image reconstruction. Barber’s awards include a MacArthur Fellowship and a Sloan Foundation Fellowship. Margaret Gardel is the ...

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Now Vuong is one of the country’s most esteemed poets, winner of a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship (a.k.a. a “genius grant”) and a tenured professor in the creative-writing department at ...

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Here are this year’s MacArthur fellows and ‘genius grant’ recipients The Chicago-based John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation on Tuesday announced the 25 recipients, who will each ...