Four Elis land ‘genius’ grants
Among the 24 individuals named as this year’s MacArthur Foundation Fellows, four have ties to the University.
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, which supports individuals who exhibit exceptional creativity in their careers, announced the recipients of the “Genius Awards” Tuesday.
They include two Yale faculty members, Richard Prum, the William Robertson Coe professor of ornithology, ecology and evolutionary biology, and Dr. Mary Tinetti, the Gladys Phillips Crofoot professor of medicine and epidemiology and public health, as well as two alumni, British painter...
