director of the MacArthur Fellows Program. Loka Ashwood, 39, Lexington, Kentucky, a sociologist at the University of Kentucky who studies how environmental issues, corporations and state policy ...

The MacArthur Fellows Program is intended to encourage people of outstanding talent to pursue their own creative, intellectual, and professional inclinations. In keeping with this purpose, the ...

While each class is never an immediate response to any particular moment, sometimes themes do emerge, Marlies Carruth, ...

The fellowship program is made possible by a $125M gift from the Hellman ... award-winning researchers, and MacArthur “genius” grant recipients. The impetus for the program came when Frances Hellman, ...

In addition to the MacArthur Fellows Program and the global 100&Change competition, the Foundation continues its historic commitments to the role of journalism in a responsive democracy as well as ...