The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation recently announced the 22 latest recipients in its fellowship program, commonly referred to as “genius grants.” Of this year’s 22 winners, sixx are women scholars with current ties to the academic world in the United States.
Stepping down are Mary Beahm at Pennsylvania State University, Joy Kenseth at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, Liz Liddy at Syracuse University in New York, and AnnaLee Saxenian at the University of California, Berkeley.
For 30 years, she was the director of the Carcinogenic Potency Project at the University of California at Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Elaine Tennant, a professor of German at the University of California at Berkeley, was appointed the James D. Hart Director of the Bancroft Library at the university.
