Sep 29 2004
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation today named 23 new MacArthur Fellows for 2004. Each will receive $500,000 in "no strings attached" support over the next five years.
The MacArthur Fellows Program underscores the importance of the creative individual in society. Fellows are selected for their originality, creativity, and the potential to do more in the future. Candidates are nominated, evaluated, and selected through a rigorous and confidential process. No one may apply for the awards, nor are any interviews conducted.
This week, each new recipient first learned of being named a MacArthur Fellow during a phone call from the Foundation. “The call can be life-changing, coming as it does out of the blue and offering highly creative women and men the gift of time and the unfettered opportunity to explore, create, and contribute,” said Jonathan F. Fanton, president of the MacArthur Foundation.
Recipients this year include:
- an inventor cobbling sophisticated devices from accessible materials to save lives and reduce labour in remote areas of the world with little access to technology and even fewer resources to obtain it (Amy Smith)
- a glass technologist fusing art and engineering to illuminate the possibilities of light in architecture of great beauty (James Carpenter)
For more information on glass, click here.