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 ...

Award-winning author Ling Ma was recently chosen as a 2024 MacArthur Fellow, granting her an $800,000 fellowship in honor of ...

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced Tuesday its 2024 class of fellows, often known as recipients of the “genius grant.” The 22 fellows will each receive a grant of $ ...

The MacArthur Fellows Program outlines three criteria for selection: "Exceptional creativity; promise for important future ...

Manuel Muñoz's stories of farmworker families in the vast and complex Central Valley of California have won him the 2025 Luis ...

Today, the poet and writer is living the life he always dreamed of after just learning he has been named among a select group of 2024 MacArthur Fellows. "I was actually leaving the doctor’s ...

But what happens after the spotlight fades? In this series, we’ll check in with the 2012 local winners of the MacArthur Fellowship.] It’s the smarty pants equivalent of having Ed McMahon show ...