From Rollingout.com
It’s not often that we receive a telephone call and the caller tells us that we have been selected to receive an award of $500,000, there are no strings attached and it’s genuine. Well, that’s exactly Roland Fryer and Tiya Miles’ experience as well as 20 of their MacArthur Fellows counterparts.
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation named 22 new MacArthur Fellows for 2011. Among them are economist Roland Fryer and public historian Tiya Mills. Other individuals who were identified work across a broad spectrum: an architect, a sports medicine researcher, a cellist, a developmental biologist, a radio producer, a neuropathologist, a conservator, a poet, and a technologist.
They were selected for their creativity, originality, and potential to make important contributions in the future. According to Robert Galluci, president of the MacArthur Foundation, “The MacArthur Fellows exemplify how individual creativity and talent can spark new insights and ideas in every imaginable field of human endeavor.”
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