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	06.14.00 - UC Berkeley economist Matthew Rabin wins MacArthur "genius" fellowship for work on human behavior (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		"MacArthur Fellows are chosen for their exceptional creativity, record of significant accomplishment and potential for still greater achievement," said fellows program director Daniel Socolow in a foundation news release.
		Rabin's award brings to 27 the number of individuals from UC Berkeley who have been honored with MacArthur fellowships since the program began in 1981.
		MacArthur fellows typically don't know they are being considered for the prize until they are told in a congratulatory phone call.
	www.berkeley.edu /news/media/releases/2000/06/14_macarthur.html (688 words)

	Fellows Program - MacArthur Foundation
		They may use their fellowship to advance their expertise, engage in bold new work, or, if they wish, to change fields or alter the direction of their careers.
		Although nominees are reviewed for their achievements, the fellowship is not a reward for past accomplishment, but rather an investment in a person's originality, insight, and potential.
		Indeed, the purpose of the MacArthur Fellows Program is to enable recipients to exercise their own creative instincts for the benefit of human society.
	www.macfound.org /site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.959463/k.9D7D/Fellows_Program.htm (536 words)

	University of Virginia News Story
		The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has named Brooks Pate, a University of Virginia professor of chemistry, one of 23 recipients of this year's MacArthur Fellowships.
		An important underpinning of the MacArthur program is confidence that the fellows are in the best position to decide how to make the most effective use of their fellowship awards.
		The Pulitzer Prize-winning fiction writer James Alan McPherson was a member of the English faculty in 1981 when he received a MacArthur fellowship.
	www.virginia.edu /topnews/releases2001/macarthur-oct-23-2001.html (760 words)

	Howard Gardner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Howard Gardner (born 1943 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA) is a cognitive and educational psychologist based at Harvard University best known for his theory of multiple intelligences.
		In 1981 he was awarded a MacArthur Prize Fellowship.
		His most famous work is probably Frames of Mind, which details seven dimensions of intelligence (Visual / Spatial Intelligence, Musical Intelligence, Verbal Intelligence, Logical/Mathematical Intelligence, Interpersonal Intelligence, Intrapersonal Intelligence, and Bodily / Kinesthetic Intelligence).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Howard_Gardner (255 words)

	Print-friendly Version of "UCSB Physicist Wins Prestigious European Award"
		He shares the prize with two other Americans—Frank Wilczek of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who was a student of Gross's at Princeton University and, in the 1980s, served on the UCSB faculty; and David Politzer of the California Institute of Technology.
		Among his many honors, Gross is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a recipient of the Sakurai Prize, the Dirac medal, a MacArthur Foundation Prize fellowship, and, in 2000, the Harvey Prize in science and technology.
		The Harvey Prize is awarded by the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology to recognize scholars whose breakthrough achievements in science and technology have served as a source of inspiration to others.
	www.instadv.ucsb.edu /pa/print.aspx?pkey=1010 (683 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In addition to his work in biology, be was also assistant and associate professor of managerial economics at the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration from 1981 to 1990.
		Dr. Lander was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship in 1978, and received the MacArthur Foundation Prize Fellowship in 1987 for his work in genetics.
		He was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1990, in recognition of 'research on the application of mathematical and statistical approaches to molecular genetics.' He was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 1997 and the U.S. Institute of Medicine in 1998.
	www.loc.gov /bicentennial/bios/frontiers/bios_lander.html (256 words)

	Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory - Biography of Vetlesen Prize Winner - John Imbrie
		Using marine fossils in ocean sediments to unravel the history of the Earth’s oceans and climate, Imbrie helped confirm the theory that the Earth’s irregular orbital motions accounted for the climatic changes that caused vast ice sheets to wax and wane on Earth over the past million years.
		Imbrie was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1978, and in 1981 was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Prize Fellowship.
		In addition to the Vetlesen Prize, Imbrie was honored with the American Geophysical Union’s Maurice Ewing Medal in 1986, the Lyell Medal for Geology of the Geological Society of London in 1991, and, in 1999, the Vega Medal of the Swedish Society of Anthropology and Geography.
	www.ldeo.columbia.edu /vetlesen/recipients/1996/imbrie_bio.html (359 words)

	Harbison winds MacArthur fellowship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Harbison, who joined the faculty in 1969, is the eighth person affiliated with MIT to have won a fellowship in the nine years the program has existed.
		Often called "genius grants," the fellowships were created to "allow extraordinarily talented individuals from all walks of life to work at their highest potential without interference and free of financial constraints," said Adele Simmons, foundation president.
		This article may be freely distributed electronically, provided it is distributed in its entirety and includes this notice, but may not be reprinted without the express written permission of The Tech.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V109/N30/harb.30n.html (349 words)

	George Zweig - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1975, while studying the ear, he discovered the continuous wavelet transform.
		In 1981, Zweig received a MacArthur Prize Fellowship.
		This biographical article about a scientist is a stub.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Zweig (125 words)

	MacArthur Prize Fellow \| ISERP
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	www.iserp.columbia.edu /research/funded_research/macarthur_prize.html (99 words)

	WREI: The Women's Research and Education Institute: ABOUT WREI: American Woman Award -- Past Recipients (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Earlier (1968--1969), she was the assistant secretary for planning and evaluation at the Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
		Rivlin received a MacArthur Foundation Prize Fellowship, taught at Harvard and George Mason Universities, served on the boards of directors of several corporations, and was president of the American Economic Association.
		She is a frequent contributor to newspapers, magazines, and journals, and has written numerous books, the most recent of which is Reviving the American Dream.
	www.wrei.org /about/award_rivlin.htm (225 words)

	Random House for High School Teachers \| Catalog \| The Essential Conversation by Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
		Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, a sociologist, is a professor of education at Harvard University, where, since 1972, she has studied the culture of schools, families, and communities.
		She is the author of eight books, including The Good High School, Respect, I’ve Known Rivers, and Balm in Gilead, which won the 1988 Christopher Award for “literary merit and humanitarian achievement.” In 1984, she was the recipient of the prestigious MacArthur Prize Fellowship.
		In 1993, she was awarded Harvard’s George Ledlie Prize for research that makes the “most valuable contribution to science” and is to “the benefit of mankind.” She is the first African-American woman in Harvard’s history to have an endowed professorship named in her honor.
	www.randomhouse.com /highschool/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780345475800 (422 words)

	Nat' Academies Press, Our Common Journey: A Transition Toward Sustainability (1999)
		Clark is a member of the Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society and was awarded a MacArthur Prize Fellowship in 1983 for his achievements in environmental policy.
		He is a recipient of the 1991 National Medal of Science, the MacArthur Prize Fellowship (1981–85), and the honors award of the Association of American Geographers.
		In 1995, Dr. Matson was selected as a MacArthur Fellow, and in 1997 was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
	www.nap.edu /books/0309067839/html/333.html (4267 words)

	SC African-American History Online
		The only surgeon ever to win the prestigious MacArthur Prize Fellowship, Dr. Lee was identified by Science Digest in 1984 as one of the "One Hundred Brightest Scientists in America Under Forty." He has carried out groundbreaking research in both surgery and biomedical engineering.
		In the next four years, he completed his surgical residency at the University of Chicago and a residency in plastic and reconstructive surgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital.
		In November of 1981, Dr. Lee was selected among the first recipients of the MacArthur Prize Fellowship, an award given to unusually talented professionals to provide opportunity and resources for creative pursuits, which helped spur his career and establish his own research laboratory.
	www.scafam-hist.org /currenthonoree.asp?month=9&year=1998 (519 words)

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		There have since been over thirty imitations of Emacs, and some are widely used today for writing and editing programs, letters, books, electronic mail, and many other purposes.
		I was also awarded a MacArthur Foundation prize fellowship in 1990.
		As an experienced programmer, I often communicate certain of my ideas in computer languages in order to be more precise about them--just as mathematicians express equations in mathematical notation and composers express music in musical notation.
	cr.yp.to /export/1996/0726-stallman.txt (589 words)

	Press Material: A New Kind of Science
		Having started to use computers in 1973, Wolfram rapidly became a leader in the emerging field of scientific computing, and in 1979 he began the construction of SMP--the first modern computer algebra system--which he released commercially in 1981.
		In recognition of his early work in physics and computing, Wolfram became in 1981 the youngest recipient of a MacArthur Prize Fellowship.
		Late in 1981 Wolfram then set out on an ambitious new direction in science: to develop a general theory of complexity in nature.
	media.wolfram.com /nks/StephenBio.html (563 words)

	1999 CRRA CONF. - KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
		Ehrlich is the recipient of the John Muir Award of the Sierra Club, the Gold Medal Award of the World Wildlife Fund International and a MacArthur Prize Fellowship.
		He received the Crafoord Prize of the Swedish Academy of Sciences, which is given in lieu of a Nobel Prize in areas where the Nobel is not given, the Volvo Environmental Prize in 1993, the United Nations' Sasakawa Environment Prize in 1994 and the 1998 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement.
		Hickox is a member of the Board of the California League of California Voters, and served as President from 1990 to 1994.
	www.crra.com /1999Conf/keynote.htm (305 words)

	DAVID L. FELTEN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Currently Executive Director of the Susan Samueli Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, he is Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology at UCI, College of Medicine.
		He was previously founding Director of the Center for Neuroimmunology at Loma Linda University School of Medicine; and has received numerous honors and awards, including the “genius award” from the John D. and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation Prize Fellowship.
		Felten is one of only a handful of researchers ever to receive two 10-year, peer review-based MERIT awards from two separate Institutes (Aging, and Mental Health) at the National Institutes of Health--research support given for an extended period to proven investigators whose work has had extraordinary importance or impact.
	www.insideedge.org /Speakers/DAVIDLFELTEN.htm (184 words)

	Nat' Academies Press, Fulfilling the Promise: Biology Education in the Nation's Schools (1990)
		R. Stephen Berry is Professor of Chemistry at the University of Chicago with research interests in physical chemistry and in natural-resources allocation.
		He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and holds a MacArthur Prize fellowship.
		She was also the 1987 recipient of the Christa McAuliffe Fellowship.
	www.nap.edu /books/0309051479/html/145.html (967 words)

	Albion College - 15th Annual Elkin R. Isaac Student Research Symposium - Keynote Speakers
		Gould has served as the president of the Paleontological Society and the Society for the Study of Evolution.
		He was in the first group awarded the prestigious MacArthur Foundation Prize Fellowship.
		He has also received the Silver National Medal of the Zoological Society of London and the Edinburgh Medal from the city of Edinburgh.
	www.albion.edu /library/Isaac/IsaacKeynote2000.asp (293 words)

	OED-Conference
		His current research activities include research on property rights; transaction costs; economic organization in history; a theory of the state; the free rider problem; ideology; growth of government; economic and social change; and a theory of institutional change.
		She was elected to the 1988 Fellowship ad eundem of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in the United Kingdom.
		Her contribution to improving the health of women and children of the global community continues to bring her many international awards and honours, most recent of which was her selection as the Laureate, in the individual category, of the United Nations Population Award for her outstanding contribution to the awareness of population issues.
	www.worldbank.org /html/oed/partnershipconference/bios.html (4757 words)

	Publisher-supplied biographical information about contributor(s) for Library of Congress control number 2002068213
		Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, a sociologist, is a professor of education at Harvard University, where, since 1972, she has studied the culture of schools, families, and communities.
		She is the author of eight books, including The Good High School, Respect, I’ve Known Rivers, and Balm in Gilead, which won the 1988 Christopher Award for “literary merit and humanitarian achievement.” In 1984, she was the recipient of the prestigious MacArthur Prize Fellowship.
		In 1993, she was awarded Harvard’s George Ledlie Prize for research that makes the “most valuable contribution to science” and is to “the benefit of mankind.” She is the first African-American woman in Harvard’s history to have an endowed professorship named in her honor.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/bios/random054/2002068213.html (214 words)

	Public Affairs Office
		Lech Walesa, Nobel Prize winner and former president of Poland; Anne Fadiman, author of The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down; and Richard Rorty, American intellectual and author of Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America will speak on Oct. 12, Oct. 16, and Nov. 5 and 6, respectively.
		Lech Walesa Lech Walesa is the fifth Nobel Prize winner in four years to speak as part of the Presidential Lecture series.
		Rorty is one of the most controversial and well-known public intellectuals in contemporary America, a former president of the American Philosophical Association and the recipient of a five-year MacArthur Prize fellowship, the most prestigious award for academic achievement offered in this country.
	www.csuchico.edu /pa/news/fall2001/10.02.2001a.html (693 words)

	Howard Gardner to Give Brodie Family Lecture September 30, Featured Events (Bowdoin)
		Howard Gardner, a MacArthur prize winner and professor at Harvard Graduate School of Education, will deliver the talk "Good Work in Education" at this year's Brodie Family Lecture at 7 p.m., Thursday, September 30, in Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center.
		Gardner is best known for his theory of multiple intelligences, a critique of the notion that there exists but a single human intelligence that can be assessed by standard psychometric instruments.
		Among his numerous honors, he received a MacArthur Prize Fellowship in 1981.
	www.bowdoin.edu /news/events/archives/000367.shtml (486 words)

	Robert K. Merton Summary
		He received several prestigious awards: one for distinguished scholarship in the humanities from the American Council of Learned Societies (1962); the Commonwealth Award for Distinguished Service to Sociology (1970); a MacArthur Prize Fellowship (1983); and the first Who's Who in America Achievement Award in the field of social science and social policy (1984).
		He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1962 and was the first sociologist to be named a MacArthur Fellow (1983-88).
		Middle-range theories, applicable to limited ranges of data, transcend sheer description of social phenomena and fill in the blanks between raw empiricism and grand or all-inclusive theory.
	www.bookrags.com /Robert_K._Merton (4323 words)

	The Whitman College Magazine Online: Gazette (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		At Harvard, he is curator of invertebrate paleontology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, and he spends part of his time at New York University as a visiting research professor of biology.
		Gould has received numerous awards including the MacArthur Foundation Prize Fellowship, the prestigious Medal of Edinburgh, and the Silver National Medal of the Zoology Society of London.
		His many books include The Mismeasure of Man (1981),Wonder-ful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History (1989), Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin (1996), and seven volumes of essays including The Panda’s Thumb (1980), Bully for Brontosaurus (1991), and Dinosaur in a Haystack (1995).
	www.whitman.edu /magazine/march2002/gould.html (249 words)

	21st Century Learning Initiative
		Most recently he has sought to follow and apply his provisional conclusions into the field of educational practice.
		His work has won world-wide renown and numerous awards, including a MacArthur Prize Fellowship, the National Psychology Award for Excellence in the Media and the Grawemeyer Award in Education.
		"If we are to achieve a milieu in which understanding is prized, it is necessary for us all to be humble about what we know and to move away from our present, invariably inadequate perspectives....."
	www.21learn.org /arch/articles/dalton_gardner.html (3220 words)

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