7 UC Faculty and Alumni Awarded MacArthur 'Genius Grants'
Since 2020, UC alumni and faculty have accounted for nearly 1 in 4 recipients of the prestigious fellowship from the MacArthur Foundation, which provides an $800,000, no-strings-attached grant to support the winner’s interests.
Six University of California alumni and one UC faculty member are among the 22 winners of the 2025 MacArthur Foundation fellowships announced this month.
The awards, known as “genius” grants, recognize outstanding scholars, creators and activists whose talent and dedication reshape their fields and serve humanity.
- An astrophysicist investigating how stars form and evolve
- An interdisciplinary artist giving aesthetic shape to the enduring repercussions of violence and dispossession
- An evolutionary biologist investigating symbiotic partnerships between plants, fungi, and other microbes
Author's summary: UC faculty and alumni win MacArthur grants.
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