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	MacArthur Fellows Program - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		People are nominated anonymously, by a body of nominators who submit recommendations to a small selection committee of about a dozen people, also anonymous.
		Most new MacArthur Fellows first learn that they have even been considered when they receive the congratulatory phone call.
		The grant was featured on an episode of the television show Family Guy; the main character, Peter Griffin, attempted to become a MacArthur Fellow but scored so low on the test that he was deemed mentally retarded.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/MacArthur_Fellows_Program (229 words)

	Will U.S. be first to tax Nobel Prize? Science News - Find Articles
		The MacArthur award, potentially the largest of those that would lose their exempted status, seeks to stimulate further innovative activity in persons who have already demonstrated exceptional creativity by freeing them from some fiscal constraints that their income, or their need to earn an income, might place on them.
		MacArthur Fellowships vary from $128,000 to $300,000, paid out over five years, depending on the age of the recipient; recipients over age 65 at the time of the award receive the most money.
		The Reagan administration's reasoning in initially proposing to tax these prizes was not only to simplify tax law but also to take advantage of the fact that receipt of a monetary award would increase a citizen's ability to pay taxes in much the same way that winning a lottery would.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1200/is_v129/ai_4245547 (740 words)

	MacArthur Center
		Employees of MacArthur Center, Landmark Targeted Publications, Pepsi, The Taubman Company and their respective advertising and promotion agencies, their parent companies, subsidiary and joint venture companies, as well as members of their immediate families and households (including children and siblings) are not eligible.
		MacArthur Center reserves the right to substitute any element of the promotion or prize packages of equal or greater value at their sole discretion.
		MacArthur Center is not responsible for telecommunications, network, electronic, technical or computer failures of any kind, for inaccurate transcription of entry information, for errors in any promotional or marketing materials, for errors in these rules, for any human or electronic error, or for transmissions, lost, late damaged or postage due.
	www.shopmacarthur.com /scc/3957.html (1375 words)

	Fellows Program - MacArthur Foundation
		The MacArthur Fellows 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.
		The MacArthur Fellows Program is intended to encourage people of outstanding talent to pursue their own creative, intellectual, and professional inclinations.
		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 /programs/fel/fel_overview.htm (514 words)

	Prizes, Awards, and Honors for Women Mathematicians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		MacArthur fellowships, popularly known as the "genius awards," cannot be applied for; rather, candidates are drawn from a pool of initial nominations by an anonymous group of 100 people.
		The Adams Prize, given annually by the University of Cambridge to a British mathematician under the age of 40, commemorates the discovery by John Couch Adams of the planet Neptune through calculation of the discrepancies in the orbit of Uranus.
		The prize was established by the Centre de recherches mathematiques and the Fields Institute as the CRM-Fields prize in 1994.
	www.agnesscott.edu /lriddle/women/prizes.htm (2526 words)

	Prince Charitable Trusts - Chicago - Arts and Culture
		The MacArthur Fund for Arts and Culture at Prince will provide general operating support to mid-sized Chicago arts organizations with proven records of excellence.
		The Prince Prize will commission a promising mid-career artist chosen by the performing arts company and must be at least one-third of the award.
		The intent of the Prize program is to serve as a catalyst for creative collaboration between promising artists and Chicago's highest caliber performing arts organizations.
	foundationcenter.org /grantmaker/prince/arts.html (782 words)

	NIGERIAN WOMAN WINS THE MACARTHUR GENIUS AWARD
		MacArthur Fellows are selected for their creativity, originality, and potential.
		Olopade is a professor of medicine and genetics and director of the Center for Clinical Cancer Genetics at the University of Chicago Medical Center, where she has been on the faculty since 1991.
		The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is a private, independent grant making institution dedicated to helping groups and individuals foster lasting improvement in the human condition.
	www.jendajournal.com /issue7/olopade.html (753 words)

	Political scientist George to receive Swedish prize (4/98) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The prize is given by the Foundation for the Chair in Eloquence and Government at Uppsala University.
		The foundation said its "official motivation" for awarding the prize to George was to honor his "pathbreaking analysis of statecraft, its possibilities and limits, performed with great sensitivity for the importance of judgment, reasoned argumentation and responsible leadership in foreign policy decision-making."
		The prize is named for Johan Skytte, a 17th-century Swedish politician and land owner who taught the Swedish prince and held positions in government.
	www.stanford.edu /group/news/relaged/980422george.html (267 words)

	Genius grants don't pay off in lit \| Crain's Chicago Business
		But something else appears to account for the failure of the MacArthur program to fulfill its promise: Writers are mostly chosen too late in their careers, average age 48, and well after the literary establishment has recognized them for excellence.
		The literary awards are part of the sprawling MacArthur Fellows program, which annually gives $500,000 each to between 20 and 30 individuals in fields as diverse as public health, nanotechnology, human rights, medical research and sculpture.
		MacArthur likewise recognized David Foster Wallace in 1997, the year after his "Infinite Jest," a 1,000-plus page assemblage of cultural and intellectual riffs, was widely talked about, if less widely read.
	chicagobusiness.com /cgi-bin/news.pl?id=15254 (1554 words)

	onPhilanthropy: New MacArthur Prize Boosts Creative Nonprofit
		Well-known for its MacArthur Fellows program, for which 24 individuals are selected each year to receive $500,000 grants, the Foundation has for the first time extended an award for organizational creativity.
		Believing that they were in preliminary conversations with the Foundation before applying for a formal grant, they indicated to the Foundation their desire to expand into 12 states in the next three years, and submitted language on the organization itself.
		To be selected for the MacArthur Award, an organization must be at a critical point in its development, have a budget of under $2.5 million, work in one of the fields in which MacArthur makes grants, and have previously received MacArthur support.
	www.onphilanthropy.com /site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=6709 (703 words)

	THE 1998 EMANUEL AND CAROL PARZEN PRIZE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		To promote the dissemination of statistical achievements, the Parzen Prize for Statistical Innovation is awarded (around April of even numbered years) to North American statisticians who have made outstanding and influential contributions to the development of applicable and innovative statistical methods.
		The Parzen Prize is awarded by the Department of Statistics at Texas AandM University to a nominee selected by the members of the Parzen Prize Committee who for 1998 were: David Brillinger, Herman Chernoff, Joe Newton, Grace Wahba, and Marvin Zelen.
		The 1994 Parzen Prize Winner was Grace Wahba, Bascom Professor of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin and the 1996 Parzen Prize Winner was Donald B. Rubin, Professor of Statistics at Harvard University.
	www.imstat.org /bulletin/IMSBulletinMar_Apr_1998/node41.html (383 words)

	Two Stanford biologists win MacArthur Prize (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		STANFORD -- Two Stanford University scientists have won prestigious MacArthur fellowships, which give them each more than $50,000 a year for the next five years.
		The MacArthur Fellowships range from $150,000 to $375,000 over five years, depending on the age of the recipient.
		The winners are chosen from nominations made by a secret committee set up by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
	www.stanford.edu /dept/news/relaged/920615Arc2172.html (840 words)

	Wisdom wins MacArthur grant - MIT News Office
		A telephone call from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in Chicago notified Professor Wisdom, 41, that he would receive a $260,000 no-strings-attached grant over five years as one of 20 new MacArthur Prize Fellows.
		Wisdom, professor of planetary sciences in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, is the tenth person connected with MIT to have won one of the awards, often referred to as "genius grants," since the program was begun in 1981.
		The MacArthur Fellowships range from $235,000 to $375,000, or $45,000 to $75,000 annually, depending on the age of the recipient.
	web.mit.edu /newsoffice/1994/wisdom-0615.html (735 words)

	eBay - books prize, Nonfiction Books, Fiction Books items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio by Terry Ryan (2001)
		The Berenstain Bears and the Prize Pumpkin by Jan Be...
		Prize Country Quilts by Mary Elizabeth Johnson (1977)
	search-desc.ebay.com /search/search.dll?query=books+prize&newu=1&krd=1 (445 words)

	Stanford Statistician To Receive 1998 Parzen Prize
		He also is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a MacArthur Prize Fellow.
		The Emanuel and Carol Parzen Prize for Statistical Innovation was established and first awarded in 1994 to recognize Emanuel Parzen's 65th birthday.
		The prize is awarded in even-numbered years to North American statisticians to recognize "outstanding and influential contributions to the development of applicable and outstanding statistical methods." Grace Wahba, Bascom Professor of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin, received the inaugural Parzen Prize in 1994.
	www.tamu.edu /aggiedaily/news/stories/archive/022798-4.html (205 words)

	Encyclopedia Africana -- Contents A-D
		He has received a MacArthur Prize and the National Humanities Medal.
		I was a student of Wole Soyinka, the great playwright who in 1986 became the first African to receive the Nobel Prize for literature.
		Though we came from different backgrounds-in rural West Virginia and in urban Asante, in Ghana-we both already had, like Soyinka, a sense of the worlds of Africa and her diaspora as profoundly interconnected, even if, as we learned ourselves, there were risks of misunderstanding that arose from our different origins and experiences.
	www.africanaencyclopedia.com /press_release.html (1331 words)

	10.31.2001 - MacArthur Prize winner located far afield
		In addition to becoming a prize winner, he also went down in the foundation’s record books as the most difficult recipient to reach.
		The MacArthur Foundation makes a special point of awarding scholars who are pursuing innovative studies with its annual “genius” awards.
		Dickinson is being recognized for his innovative studies of insect flight, which span a number of fields, including neurobiology, biomechanics, structural engineering, general physiology and animal behavior.
	www.berkeley.edu /news/berkeleyan/2001/10/31_far.html (817 words)

	Widsom Awarded MacArthur Grant
		Professor of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences Jack Wisdom was recently named one of this year's 20 MacArthur Prize Fellows.
		Wisdom is the tenth person connected with MIT to be named a MacArthur Prize Fellow, according to Tech Talk.
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	www-tech.mit.edu /V114/N28/macarthur.28n.html (445 words)

	Pulitzer Prize-Winning Historian David Levering Lewis Will Share Research on W.E.B. Du Bois in Lafayette's Presidential ...
		MacArthur Fellows are free to use the awards, which range from $200,000 to $375,000 over five years, as they please.
		Lewis is the winner of the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for biography and eight other major awards for his 1993 book, W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race.
		His detailed study of the immensely influential African American intellectual and civil rights leader is a major reworking of not only Du Bois' career, but of the history of the civil rights movement and American history of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
	www.lafayette.edu /news.php/view/2078 (584 words)

	NRDC: OnEarth Magazine, Winter 2003 - Fieldwork
		After laboring for years in relative obscurity to make our nation's refrigerators, washing machines, buildings, and lots of other things more energy efficient, this September the fifty-one-year-old Ph.D. in physics was named a MacArthur Fellow.
		The prize comes with a no-strings-attached $500,000 grant and is nicknamed the "genius award."
		He also predicts that, though he is the first, he will not be the last NRDC advocate to be named a MacArthur Fellow.
	www.nrdc.org /onearth/03win/field.asp (597 words)

	Howard Gardner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He is 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 (427 words)

	E-Notes \| Schuller Appointment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Legendary Pulitzer Prize and MacArthur Foundation Prize winning composer Gunther Schuller is coming to ASU in 2004.
		He has created more than 160 original compositions, which include his 1994 Pulitzer Prize winning work, Of Reminiscences and Reflections, plus An Arc Ascending, The Past is in the Present, and Ritmica-Melodica-Armonica.
		His academic positions have included Professor of Composition at the School of Music at Yale, President of the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, and Artistic Director of the Tanglewood Berkshire Music Center and The Festival at Sandpoint in Idaho.
	herbergercollege.asu.edu /music/e-Notes/appointment.html (510 words)

	WorldChanging: Tools, Models and Ideas for Building a Bright Green Future: The WTN X-Prizes: Motivating Cathedrals of ...
		As we reported previously, the WTN is following up by proposing a series of social X Prizes, and asking for suggestions.
		The climatic regions would be predefined, perhaps with prizes for each solution, so teams wishing to only tackle one climate could compete.
		Mechanical engineer and MacArthur Fellow Amy Smith is working on the second of your questions: how to make an affordable clean burning stove for every family.
	www.worldchanging.com /archives/001460.html (1452 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)

	Amazon.ca: Uncommon Genuis: Books: Denise Shekerjian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Shekerjian traces the "origins" of creativity in her study of forty Macarthur Fellows.
		Shekerjian has interviewed men and women in various fields of study and art (and who share the honor of being MacArthur recipients)to give us insight into the pursuit of the creative idea, the spark that leads certain people to persist through failure, to bring the 'next big thing' into being.
		Forty people who have won the MacArthur fellowship*, an award created to reward impassioned, creative individuals: Rather than just dabbling in a passion as a hobby, their lives revolve around their passions.
	www.amazon.ca /Uncommon-Genuis-Denise-Shekerjian/dp/0140109862 (1213 words)

	Robotic Fish Gather Data, Prize - Ferrago News Portal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The fish also helped her pick up a $500,000 'genius' prize from the MacArthur Foundation.
		Scientists nab prize for work on sense of smell just days after a spoof "Ig Nobel" recognizes breakthroughs in fish flatulence.
		A new breed of wearable robotic vehicles that envelop drivers are being developed by Toyota.
	www.ferrago.com /portal/cluster/44457 (654 words)

	Uncommon Genius - Junk Warehouse Product Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		At the age of 38, John D. MacArthur, a destitute high-school dropout, borrowed $2,500 to buy the Bankers Life and Casualty Company of Chicago; eight years later he'd made a million dollars.
		The award cannot be applied for, and it is not limited to any particular field of interest.
		For a creative spirit such as myself, I was very intersted to glean insights from Shekerjian and from the MacArthur Fellows she spoke with.
	www.junkwarehouse.com /amazon/asinsearch_0140109862 (375 words)

	Carillon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		He was one of 19 MacArthur Prize fellows chosen that year.
		Hawkins was official historian of the Manhattan Project, which ushered in the creation of the atomic bomb that was dropped on Japan at the end of World War II.
		Hawkins also served as a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton and as a visiting professor at colleges and universities in the United States, England, Canada and Italy.
	www.colorado.edu /Carillon/volume59/stories/get_page.pl?id=21 (264 words)

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