Nearly 10 years after receiving a $1 million MacArthur “genius” award for institutions, a tiny human rights center has transformed itself and its work, offering lessons on how grant makers can help ...

During the past decade, the booming real estate market and waning federal subsidies resulted in the loss of over two million units of affordable housing, according to the John D. and Catherine T.

Purdue is continuing system-wide assistance to teams preparing proposals for the MacArthur Foundation's offer of $100 million as a single grant to solve a critical world problem. To maximize and ...

When Zachary Lippman ’00 received a phone call from the MacArthur Foundation earlier this month, he was “shocked.” “I actually thought they were calling to ask me for input on other people they were ...

African American Studies professor Ruha Benjamin has been awarded a MacArthur “genius grant,” the University announced on Tuesday, Oct. 1. Later that day, Benjamin shared on X an exchange with ...

On Oct. 8, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation named Professor of International Security and Anthropology Ieva Jusionyte as a 2025 MacArthur Fellow. The fellowship, awarded yearly to ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --Visionary artist and architect Amanda Williams has been named a MacArthur Fellow, one of three Chicagoans who received a so-called "Genius" grant this year. Williams is among 25 people ...

Tonika Lewis Johnson isn’t just repairing the South Side Chicago neighborhood of Englewood through her art — her distinctive style extends all the way north to reparations work in Evanston. Johnson, ...