MacArthur Fellowship
The MacArthur Fellows Program is intended to encourage people of outstanding talent to pursue their own creative, intellectual, and professional inclinations. In keeping with this purpose, the Foundation awards fellowships directly to individuals rather than through institutions. Recipients may be writers, scientists, artists, social scientists, humanists, teachers, entrepreneurs, or those in other fields, with or without institutional affiliations. They may use their fellowship to advance their expertise, engage in bold new work, or, if they wish, to change fields or alter the direction of their careers.Although nominees are reviewed for their achievements, the fellowship is not a lifetime achievement award, but rather an investment in a person's originality, insight, and potential. Indeed, the purpose of the MacArthur Fellows Program is to enable recipients to exercise their own creative instincts for the benefit of human society.
- Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences (2021)
- William Dichtel, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences (2015)
- Mark Hersam, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science (2014)
- Stuart Dybek, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences (2007)
- Amy Rosenzweig, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences (2003)
- Mary Zimmerman, School of Communication (1998)