Across two vast fronts, Allied commanders took drastically different paths to victory. MacArthur’s calculated island-hopping conserved lives and leveraged naval power in the Pacific, while Stalin’s ...

Award-winning novelist Tommy Orange made headlines Wednesday when he won a MacArthur Fellowship — often referred to as a “genius grant.” But it turns out the Oakland writer had been keeping the intel ...

Kristina Douglass was doing the dishes in her slippers when she received the call from the MacArthur Foundation, giving her the news that she had received a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship. "I told ...

A cartographer, a composer, an archaeologist, a neurobiologist and an astrophysicist are among this year's MacArthur Fellows, one of the most prestigious cash awards given to "extraordinarily talented ...

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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 ...

Philanthropy MacArthur Fellows Artist Tonika Lewis Johnson stands for portrait in the 6500-block of South Aberdeen Street in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood, on ...

Princeton alumni Nabarun Dasgupta and Sébastien Philippe have been awarded 2025 MacArthur Fellowships, both for work that honors Princeton's informal motto, “In the nation's service and the service of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Twenty-two people in a broad spectrum of the arts and sciences were awarded the fellowship, which comes with an $800,000 stipend. By Michaela Towfighi Every new show comes with a lingering sense of ...