The winners of one of the most prestigious awards in the US, the McArthur Fellows program, were announced this week. Also known as the McArthur genius grant, it's a no-strings-attached award of $500,000 that winners don't even know they've been nominated for until they receive notice that they've won via phone call. 24 people were named winners this week.
Winners are usually pretty impressive folks, activists, academics, researchers, journalists, writers. They range in age this year from 32 to 69, and are a geographically and racially diverse crew.
Anna Clark has a break down of the three writers who won awards, but profiles of all the winners can be found here.
A video of one of the winners, Camille Utterback, a digital artist, is after the jump.
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great! thanks miriam, i just spent a while watching a series of those mcarthur youtube videos and all the fellows are incredibly admirable. it gives me something to aspire to.
not to be snotty or anything but it's acutally spelled MacArthur...
I was super psyched to see economist Esther Duflo in the list. Amongst other things, youngest tenure recipient ever at MIT (I think), co-founder of their Jameel Poverty Action Lab, and more professional awards than you can shake a stick at.
This woman is absolutely brilliant and incredibly deserving.