Amidst Global Troubles, MacArthur 'Genius Grant' Winners 'Provoke And Inspire'
This year's MacArthur Fellows — recipients of what's commonly called the Genius Grant — include artists, scientists, dancers and more. They'll each receive a no-strings-attached $625,000 award.
This year's MacArthur Fellows — recipients of what's commonly known as the Genius Grant — are engineers and writers, scientists and musicians, artists and scholars and filmmakers. They've mapped the universe and the human brain, created new worlds and picked apart what makes our own world tick.
Among the honorees is speculative fiction writer N.K. Jemisin, who won back-to-back Hugo Awards for every book in her trilogy, about the struggle to remake a world wracked by exploitation and geological upheaval..
