MARILYN VOS SAVANT NEEDS A BETTER PUBLICIST: The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has announced its 2011 "genius" grant honorees, including Jad Abumrad, co-host and producer of WNYC's Radiolab.
(Here's our Genius Grant posts from 2009 and 2010, the former having links to our 2006-08 offerings.)
I don't know any of them but I'm glad to see my alma mater represented a handful of times.
ReplyDeleteYay JAD!!!!! Krulwich is going to give him so much crap about being a genius, but probably loud happy paternally proud crap.
ReplyDeleteThe sports medicine researcher was one of my undergrad professors. I'm sure I inspired him by showing up to class more than half the time.
ReplyDeleteHe ties in to the ALOTT5MA posts on concussions (wish I knew how to link them). So glad someone is researching this thoroughly, and now he has funding to do it more in depth.
ReplyDeleteKay Ryan is a great poet and a lovely person. She's the only person on the list I know, but I'm thrilled for her.
ReplyDeleteI've seen Alisa Weilerstein perform, and she's really, really good. She collaborates a lot with Inon Barnatan, whose partner was a friend in law school. Her repertoire is a bit more conservative than I'd expect for a MacArthur grant, though. I guess excellent cellism is its own reward.
ReplyDeleteYay for Peter Hessler, whose writings on China for the New Yorker and elsewhere were essential. Among his non-book-length work, I particularly loved his article a couple of years ago about getting a car and driving in China.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations to the winners, and condolences to their siblings, high school classmates, and children of their mothers' friends.
ReplyDeleteAs a Chicagoan...I don't like the Aqua. It makes me quea<span> </span>sy.
ReplyDeleteAs another Chicagoan I LOVE the Aqua because it looks like magic more than it looks like a building.
ReplyDeleteAs always, all of these people sound utterly fascinating. My favorite awards!
ReplyDelete