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Meet the 2014 MacArthur Fellows

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  University of Pennsylvania

  Philadelphia, PA

  Age: 32
  Physicist 

  applying mathematical approaches to the analysis and modeling of brain connectivity and enhancing our understanding of how these connections give rise to the functions the brain performs.

   
• 
  Bolton, VT

  Age: 54
  Cartoonist and Graphic Memoirist 

  expanding the expressive potential of the graphic form in intricate narratives that explore the complexities of familial relationships.

   
• 
  Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders

  Boston, MA

  Age: 53
  Civil Rights Lawyer 

  breaking down legal barriers based on sexual orientation and gender identity to equal treatment under the law for all, and working to secure the freedom to marry for same-sex couples and the protections, obligations, and dignity marriage affords.

   
• 
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  Urbana, IL

  Age: 50
  Environmental Engineer 

  unraveling the global effects of black carbon emissions, or soot, on climate and human health and playing a key role in understanding the complex relationship between energy and climate change.

   
• 
  M-Base Concepts, Inc.

  Allentown, PA

  Age: 57
  Jazz Composer and Saxophonist 

  infusing iconic spontaneous music idioms with the melodic, rhythmic, and structural components of an eclectic range of musical traditions to create a distinctive new sound.

   
• 
  William Mitchell College of Law

  Saint Paul, MN

  Age: 41
  Legal Scholar and Advocate 

  developing policies and legislation that are empowering tribal authorities and reshaping the landscape of support and protection for Native American women at risk for domestic and sexual violence.
• 
  Stanford University

  Stanford, CA

  Age: 49
  Social Psychologist 

  investigating the subtle, complex, largely unconscious yet deeply ingrained ways that individuals racially code and categorize people and the far-reaching consequences of stereotypic associations between race and crime.
• 
  IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center

  Yorktown Heights, NY

  Age: 41
  Computer Scientist 

  fueling a revolution in cryptography and theoretical computer science through his breakthroughs in fully homomorphic encryption, leading to the possibility of more secure cloud computing.

   
• 
  University of Pittsburgh

  Pittsburgh, PA

  Age: 42
  Poet 

  reflecting on race, gender, and family in works that seamlessly encompass both the historical and the personal and subvert canonical forms.

   
• 
  Texas Low Income Housing Information Service

  Austin, TX

  Age: 59
  Housing Advocate 

  building collaborations among elected officials, developers, and community residents to preserve and expand the supply of affordable housing and ensure that all Americans have equal access to housing and federal disaster relief.

   
• 
  Northwestern University

  Evanston, IL

  Age: 39
  Materials Scientist 

  drawing on techniques from a variety of fields in investigations of the physical, chemical, and biological properties of nanomaterials, offering new promise for applied uses.

   
• 
  New York, NY

  Age: 33
  Playwright 

  crafting quietly captivating dramas that explore the human capacity for empathy and confront the socially isolating aspects of contemporary life across the American landscape.
• 
  Washington, DC

  Age: 71
  Historian of Science and Technology

  challenging our understanding of the role of scholarship and craftsmanship in Renaissance societies and demonstrating how technologies are deeply enmeshed within the broader cultural fabric.

   
• 
  Project Row Houses

  Houston, TX

  Age: 53
  Public Artist 

  reinventing community revitalization as an art form by transforming a long-neglected neighborhood in Houston into a visionary amalgam of arts venue, community support center, and historic preservation initiative.

   
• 
  Harvard University

  Cambridge, MA

  Age: 36
  Mathematician 

  creating a novel conceptual foundation for derived algebraic geometry (DAG) and rewriting large swathes of mathematics from a new point of view.

   
• 
  University of Michigan

  Ann Arbor, MI

  Age: 50
  Translator and Poet 

  rendering the beauty and meaning of contemporary Arab poetry accessible to an English reader and highlighting the invaluable role of literary translation in bridging cultural divides.

   
• 
  Copenhagen, Denmark

  Age: 39
  Documentary Filmmaker 

  illuminating the social, psychological, and emotional dimensions of controversial subjects, such as state-sponsored violence, in works that challenge the modern aesthetic of contemporary documentary cinema in both intimacy of focus and visual construct.
• 
  National Domestic Workers Alliance

  New York, NY

  Age: 40
  Labor Organizer 

  catalyzing a vibrant, worker-led movement for improved working conditions and labor standards for domestic or private-household workers.

   
• 
  Gideon's Promise

  Atlanta, GA

  Age: 48
  Criminal Lawyer 

  safeguarding the essential democratic right of every American to high-quality legal representation by transforming the practice of indigent defense in the South through training, mentorship, and community.

   
• 
  University of Chicago

  Chicago, IL

  Age: 38
  Historian of Modern Europe 

  combining extensive archival research with broad sociohistorical analysis of notions of nation, family, and ethnicity to construct an integrative, transnational understanding of events in twentieth-century Europe.

   
• 
  University of New Hampshire

  Durham, NH

  Age: 59
  Mathematician 

  tackling truly hard questions in number theory leading to the first finite bound on a gap between prime numbers and the best possible qualitative approximation of the twin prime conjecture.

   

- See more at: http://www.macfound.org/fellows/class/class-2014/#sthash.qDUo56Jl.dpuf