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MacArthur Fellows Program
Annual prize by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
For the award in the fields of ecology, see Robert H. MacArthur Award.
Award
The MacArthur Fellows Program, also known as the MacArthur Fellowship and colloquially called the "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to typically between 20 and 30 individuals working in any field who have shown "extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction" and are citizens or residents of the United States.
According to the foundation's website, "the fellowship is not a reward for past accomplishments but rather an investment in a person's originality, insight, and potential", but it also says such potential is "based on a track record of significant accomplishments". The current prize is $800,000 paid over five years in quarterly installments. Previously, it was $625,000. This figure was increased from $500,000 in 2013 with the release of a review of the MacArthur Fellows Program. The award has been called "one of the most significant awards that is truly 'no strings attached'".
The program does not accept applications. Anonymous and confidential nominations are invited by the foundation and reviewed by an anonymous and confidential selection committee of about a dozen people. The committee reviews all nominees and recommends recipients to the president and board of directors. Most new fellows first learn of their nomination and award upon receiving a congratulatory phone call. MacArthur Fellow Jim Collins described this experience in an editorial column of The New York Times.
Marlies Carruth is the program's current director.
Recipients
As of 2023, since 1981, 1131 people have been named MacArthur Fellows, ranging in age from 18 to 82.
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About the Award
The International Research Excellence and Citation Awards sounds like a significant recognition for researchers and scholars in various fields of study. By acknowledging their contributions and impact, the awards can inspire and motivate these individuals to continue their innovative and valuable work.The awards also serve as a way to highlight the importance of research and its impact on the advancement of knowledge and society. The rigorous selection criteria, including factors such as the number of publications, citations, research impact, and originality of work, help ensure that only the most deserving individuals are recognized for their achievements.Overall, the International Research Excellence and Citation Awards play a crucial role in promoting and celebrating research excellence, and provide a valuable platform for researchers to showcase their work and impact.
What does the award include
The profile of the award winners of each category be listed on our website and it will be maintained forever.
The certificate, medal, and Memento, and photographs will be a testimony. Further, this recognition and additional proof of hard work and achievements must be globally accessible for Researchers and hence will be available online 24/7.
It’s an indicator of success Enhances the reputation improves the benchmark –it’s a matter of pride – Motivation – Raises the visibility of the success.
Themes
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Objectives
Recognizing and honoring the achievements of researchers and scholars in various fields of study.
Promoting and celebrating high-quality research and its impact on the advancement of knowledge and society.
Providing a platform for researchers to showcase their work and impact.
Inspiring and motivating researchers to continue their innovative and valuable work.
Highlighting the importance of research and its role in advancing knowledge and improving the world.
Prov Read the full history of the Farfel Award. To read biographies of past winners, please click on the years below. Zhifeng Ren is the 2024 recipient of the University of Houston’s highest faculty honor, the Esther Farfel Award. Ren, UH’s Paul C. W. Chu and May P. Chern Endowed Chair in Condensed Matter Physics, is being acknowledged for his excellence in research, scholarship, teaching and service. At UH, Ren serves as Director of The Texas Center for Superconductivity at UH (TcSUH). He has garnered international acclaim for his work in high performance thermoelectric materials; catalysts for water splitting; nanosheet for enhanced oil recovery, solar energy conversion; flexible transparent electrodes; and carbon nanotubes and nanocomposites. He is consistently listed among Clarivate’s Highly Cited Researchers with published papers ranking in the top 1% of citations for field and publication year. In 2022, his expertise was key in demonstrating cubic boron arsenide as “one of best semiconductors known to science.” This discovery was named one of the year’s Top 10 Breakthroughs by Physics World magazine. Other honors include the Edith and Peter O'Donnell Award in Science from The Academy of Medicine, Engineering & Science of Texas; the Humboldt Prize from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation; and a Distinguished Senior Research Award from Boston College. In 2018, he received a UH Faculty Award for Excellence in Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity. He holds fellowships with the National Academy of Inventors, Materials Research Society, American Physical Society and American Association for the Advancement of Science. As a scholar, Ren has authored or contributed to more than 630 published articles and papers. He serves as the founding Editor-in-Chief for one of the top journals Materials Today Physics and was the founding Editor-in-Chief for Soft Science. He is als ESP Timelines Comparative Timelines The ESP Timeline (one of the site's most popular features) has been completely updated to allow the user to select (using the timeline controls above each column) different topics for the left and right sides of the display. Half in jest, Francis Crick and Leslie Orgel suggest that ancient aliens may have seeded the early Earth with DNA, and all life on this planet arose from that. Peter and Rosemary Grant begin a long-term study of finches on the Galápagos Islands. In succeeding years, as they watch finches adapt to alternating wet and dry conditions, the Grants will uncover evidence that evolution proceeds more rapidly than what Darwin estimated. Taking a line from Through the Looking Glass, Leigh Van Valen establishes the "Red Queen" hypothesis of coevolution between predator and prey: "it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!" Centre Georges Pompidou, commonly shortened to Centre Pompidou and also known as the Pompidou Centre in English, opens in 1977. It is a complex building in the Beaubourg area of the 4th arrondissement of Paris, near Les Halles, rue Montorgueil, and the Marais. It was designed in the style of high-tech architecture by the architectural team of Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano, along with Gianfranco Franchini. It houses the Bibliothèque publique d'information (Public Information Library), a vast public library; the Musée National d'Art Moderne, which is the largest museum for modern art in Europe; and IRCAM, a centre for music and acoustic research. It is named after Georges Pompidou, the President of France from 1969 to 1974 who commissioned the building. Vicente Aleixandre awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for a creative poetic writing which illuminates man's condition in the cosmos and in present-day society, at the same time representing the great renew Past Winners
2024: Zhifeng Ren, Ph.D.