2007 MacArthur Foundation Awards

The MacArthur Foundation awards monetary prizes each year in order to provide financial assistance for selected innovators.

Deborah Bial

Born: 1965, education strategist, New York, N. Y.

Peter Cole

Born: 1957, translator/poet/publisher, Jerusalem, Israel

Lisa Cooper

Born: 1963, public health physician, Baltimore, Md.

Ruth DeFries

Born: 1956, environmental geographer, College Park, Md.

Mercedes Doretti

Born: 1958, forensic anthropologist, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Stuart Dybek

Born: 1942, short story writer, Evanston, Ill.

Marc Edwards

Born: 1964, water quality engineer, Blacksburg, Va.

Michael Elowitz

Born: 1970, molecular biologist, Pasadena, Calif.

Saul Griffith

Born: 1974, inventor, Alameda, Calif.

Sven Haakanson

Born: 1966, Alutiiq curator/anthropologist/preservationist, Kodiak, Alaska

Corey Harris

Born: 1969, blues musician, Charlottesville, Va.

Cheryl Hayashi

Born: 1967, spider silk biologist, Riverside, Calif.

My Hang Huynh

Born: 1962, chemist, Los Alamos, N. M.

Claire Kremen

Born: 1960, conservation biologist, Berkeley, Calif.

Whitfield Lovell

Born: 1959, painter/installation artist, New York, N. Y.

Yoky Matsuoka

Born: 1971, neuroroboticist, Seattle, Wash.

Lynn Nottage

Born: 1964, playwright, Brooklyn, N. Y.

Mark Roth

Born: 1957, biomedical scientist, Seattle, Wash.

Paul Rothemund

Born: 1972, nanotechnologist, Pasadena, Calif.

Jay Rubenstein

Born: 1967, medieval historian, Knoxville, Tenn.

Jonathan Shay

Born: 1941, clinical psychiatrist/classicist, Boston, Mass.

Joan Snyder

Born: 1940, painter, Brooklyn, N. Y.

Dawn Upshaw

Born: 1960, master vocalist, Bronxville, N. Y.

Shen Wei

Born: 1968, choreographer, New York, N. Y.