There is one recipient person from the Chicago area in the 2023 class of Fellows.
This website stores data such as cookies to enable essential site functionality, as well as marketing, personalization, and analytics. By remaining on this website, you indicate your consent.One of the recipients of this year's"genius grant" fellowships from the Chicago-based MacArthur Foundation is Rina Foygel Barber of the University of Chicago.
These fellowships, formally announced Wednesday, consist of monetary awards of $800,000, delivered in five annual installments of $160,000 with no strings attached. Buy a car? Sure. Purchase a home? Go ahead. A trip to Europe or Asia or Africa? Your plane is waiting.Many have and will use this windfall to fund further research and creative pursuits. This is not like winning a lottery.
Many of them have come from this area. One of last year’s recipients was Tomeka Reid, a then 44-year-old jazz cellist, composer and improviser who the MacArthur folks described as “forging a unique jazz sound that draws from a range of musical traditions.”, “ will help so much. It will buy me time to do so many things, to launch projects I have been thinking about, to have creative freedom.”
This year, there is but one recipient from the Chicago area, Rina Foygel Barber, a 40-year-old Louis Block Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Chicago, cited for “developing tools to reduce false positives and improve confidence in high-dimensional data models.
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