Winners of MacArthur Grants Announced. NY Times Here’s the complete list, hyperlinks courtesy of me and Google:
- Bonnie Bassler, a molecular ecobiologist;
- Ann Blair, an intellectual historian;
- Katherine Boo, 37, a Pulitzer-Prize winning staff writer at The Washington Post.
- Paul Ginsparg, an Internet publisher and a physicist;
- David B. Goldstein, an energy conservation specialist and physicist
- Karen Hesse, a novelist
- Janine Jagger, an epidemiologist
- Daniel Jurafsky, a computational linguist
- Toba Khedoori, an artist
- Liz Lerman, a choreographer
- George Lewis, a trombonist and composer
- Liza Lou, 33, a Californian known for huge installations using thousands of glass beads;
- Edgar Meyer, a bassist and composer
- Jack Miles, a literary scholar and critic and author of God: The Biography
- Erik Mueggler, an anthropologist
- Sendhil Mullainathan, 29, who in this era of Wall Street scandals studied the phenomenon of growing executive compensation
- Stanley Nelson, a documentary filmmaker
- Lee Ann Newsom, a paleoethnobotanist
- Daniela Rus, 39, a roboticist and Dartmouth College professor who works on robots that independently change shapes, depending on their task
- Charles Steidel, 39, a cosmologist and professor at the California Institute of Technology
- Brian Tucker, 56, a seismologist and founder and president of GeoHazards International in Palo Alto, Calif.
- Camilo José Vergara, 58, a photographer who captured images of the World Trade Center from its construction more than 30 years ago to the day the towers fell
- Paul Wennberg, an atmospheric chemist.
- Colson Whitehead, 32, who received critical acclaim for his first two novels, John Henry Days (2001) and The Intuitionist (1998) [You should read this! — FmH]
