Nearly 10 years after receiving a $1 million MacArthur “genius” award for institutions, a tiny human rights center has transformed itself and its work, offering lessons on how grant makers can help ...

During the past decade, the booming real estate market and waning federal subsidies resulted in the loss of over two million units of affordable housing, according to the John D. and Catherine T.

Purdue is continuing system-wide assistance to teams preparing proposals for the MacArthur Foundation's offer of $100 million as a single grant to solve a critical world problem. To maximize and ...

When Zachary Lippman ’00 received a phone call from the MacArthur Foundation earlier this month, he was “shocked.” “I actually thought they were calling to ask me for input on other people they were ...

On Oct. 8, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation named Professor of International Security and Anthropology Ieva Jusionyte as a 2025 MacArthur Fellow. The fellowship, awarded yearly to ...

African American Studies professor Ruha Benjamin has been awarded a MacArthur “genius grant,” the University announced on Tuesday, Oct. 1. Later that day, Benjamin shared on X an exchange with ...

CHICAGO — An evolutionary geneticist in Germany, a Nigerian-born writer, and an architectural historian who studies ancient bridges are among 25 recipients of this year’s MacArthur Foundation “genius ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --Visionary artist and architect Amanda Williams has been named a MacArthur Fellow, one of three Chicagoans who received a so-called "Genius" grant this year. Williams is among 25 people ...

How much can a $100 million grant solve a massive problem? That was the guiding question behind the 2018 grant competition led by the MacArthur Foundation. Five years later, the grant maker is ...

Aerospace engineer Moriba Jah is one of 25 MacArthur Fellows this year for his work in aerospace engineering and mechanics developing tools to detect debris in space. Moriba Jah, an associate ...