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  Frequently Asked Questions - MacArthur Foundation
The MacArthur Fellowship is designed to support people, often unrecognized, who are expanding the boundaries of knowledge and human interaction.
John MacArthur was a businessman whose funds created the Foundation; Catherine was his second wife and a member of the boards of many of the firms he owned.
John MacArthur was the sole owner of Bankers Life and Casualty Company, a Chicago-based firm he purchased in the 1930s.
www.macfound.org /site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.959481/k.7895/Frequently_Asked_Questions.htm   (894 words)

  
 MacArthur Fellowship
The Amboseli Trust for Elephants (AERP) is very happy to announce that Cynthia Moss has been awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.
This program awards unrestricted fellowships to talented individuals who have shown extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction.
There are three criteria for selection of Fellows: exceptional creativity, promise of important future advances based on a track record of significant accomplishment, and potential for the fellowship to facilitate subsequent creative work.
www.elephanttrust.org /macarthur.htm   (370 words)

  
  Talking History   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, she assisted in the production of a documentary film based on A Midwife’s Tale and her work is also featured on the website Do History.
This forum was moderated by Gerda Lerner, a groundbreaking women’s historian and the Robinson-Edwards Professor of History, Emerita, at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
In 1983 he was one of the first historians to be awarded a MacArthur Prize; most recently he served as President of the Organization of American Historians.
www.historymatters.gmu.edu /browse/talkhist   (2580 words)

  
 Benetech :: About Benetech :: Media Resources
Each of this year’s 25 MacArthur Fellows learned this week that they will receive $500,000 in “no strings attached” funding over the next five years.
Celebrating the Naming of a Genius: An Interview with Jim Fruchterman covers Fruchterman's 2006 MacArthur Fellowship and the expansion of Bookshare.org.
Palo Alto, CA - Since Benetech CEO Jim Fruchterman was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship last month, both he and Benetech have been the focus of increasing media coverage.
www.benetech.org /about/media_resources.shtml   (2607 words)

  
 Stephen H. Schneider, PhD - CESP   (Site not responding. Last check: )
He was a member of the scientific staff of NCAR from 1973-1996, where he co-founded the Climate Project.
Schneider was honored in 1992 with a MacArthur Fellowship for his ability to integrate and interpret the results of global climate research.
He also received, in 1991, the American Association for the Advancement of Science/Westinghouse Award for Public Understanding of Science and Technology, for furthering public understanding of environmental science and its implications for public policy.
cesp.stanford.edu /people/2227   (527 words)

  
 JWA Presents "This Week in History"   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Among other prizes, she has won the National Book Critics Circle Award, an Academy of American Poets Fellowship, the Bollingen Prize for Poetry, a Lannan Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award, and a MacArthur Fellowship.
Her paternal grandparents were founding members of the local Reform synagogue, but as the daughter of a Korean mother, Angela and her sister were the only biracial Jews they knew.
A summer in Israel with the Bronfman Youth Fellowship, where Buchdahl's roommate was an Orthodox Jew, caused her to question her own Jewish identity.
www.jwa.org /this_week/week20.html   (2560 words)

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