Daily News | This year’s ‘genius grant’ recipients include a Penn State historian and Princeton mathematics professor
” — awards $625,000 over a five-year stretch to people who have “extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction.” The fellowship prides itself on its “no strings attached” approach, with the aim to invest in recipients’ potential.15 women and 10 men, including one professor from Pennsylvania and another from New Jersey.
P. Gabrielle Foreman, 58, Pennsylvania State University literary historian and digital historian from University Park, Pa. “Creating novel molecular materials with unique properties directly relevant to quantum information technologies.”“Strengthening cross-border ties and advancing participatory methods of artistic knowledge production in the service of social justice.”“Combining imagery and language in films and videos that offer new strategies of representation for the expression of Indigenous worldviews.
Priti Krishtel, 44, Initiative for Medicines, Access, and Knowledge health justice lawyer from Oakland, Calif. “Tracing the long-term consequences that incarceration and re-entry systems have on the lives of individuals and their families.“Transforming the use of percussion in improvisation and expanding the boundaries of machine-based music.“Challenging conventional theories and engineering new tools to detect ultra-high energy sub-atomic particles that could hold clues to long-held mysteries of our universe.
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