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The 2017 MacArthur “Genius” Fellows were awarded this week. One fellow of particular interest to this blog is mathematician and statistician Emmanuel Candès. The Stanford University professor uses complex mathematical structures to improve the health care system. As stated on the MacArthur website: Using an approach that draws on concepts from linear algebra and L1 minimization…
The MacArthur Foundation named 23 fellows, recipients of the so-called “genius” grant. The full list of winners is available here. The fellows receive the fellows will receive $500,000 in “no strings attached” support over the next five years. Some people whose work piqued my interest: Drew Berry is a biomedical animator whose scientifically accurate and…
Yesterday, the winners of the prestigious MacArthur ‘Genius’ Fellowships were unveiled. Twenty winners received $500,000 of funding over 5 years with no strings attached. Some of the winers include: Esther Duflo is a development economist exploring the social and economic forces perpetuating the cycle of poverty for the poorest peoples in South Asia and Africa..…