MacArthur Fellowship

MacArthur Fellowship

Distributed by the MacArthur Foundation, the "MacArthur Fellowship is a five-year grant to individuals who show exceptional creativity in their work and the prospect for still more in the future... The stipend for the MacArthur Fellowship is currently set at $500,000, paid in quarterly installments over five years. "

Program Staff
Accessed October 2008:
 * Daniel J. Socolow - Director, Fellows Program (he replaced Catharine R. Stimpson in 1997)
 * Mark D. Fitzsimmons - Associate Director
 * Mary Ann T. Worklan - Senior Program Officer
 * Marlies A. Carruth - Program Officer
 * Laura E. Scholl - Program Officer
 * Krista Pospisil - Research Associate

2008 Fellows
Accessed October 2008:


 * Chimamanda Adichie
 * Will Allen
 * Regina Benjamin
 * Kirsten Bomblies
 * Tara Donovan
 * Wafaa El-Sadr
 * Andrea Ghez
 * Stephen Houston
 * Mary Jackson
 * Leila Josefowicz
 * Alexei Kitaev
 * Walter Kitundu
 * Susan Mango
 * Diane Meier
 * David Montgomery
 * John Ochsendorf
 * Peter Pronovost
 * Adam Riess
 * Alex Ross
 * Nancy Siraisi
 * Marin Soljacic
 * Sally Temple
 * Jennifer Tipton
 * Rachel Wilson
 * Miguel Zenón

Related Sourcewatch articles

 * Gary Nabhan
 * Qiang Xiao
 * Tina Rosenberg
 * MacArthur Fellowship: The Humanities
 * MacArthur Fellowship: Public Issues
 * MacArthur Fellowship: Other Environmental