Meet our geniuses: Southland 5 win $625,000 MacArthur Grants Southland area MacArthur fellows 2016 from left: Ahilan Arulanantham, Josh Kun, Maggie Nelson, Dianne Newman and Victoria Orphan. Photos via macfound.org Caltech is celebrating its latest stars Thursday after two of the Pasadena school’s professors won MacArthur Foundation “genius grants.” In fact, five of the 23 MacArthur fellows for 2016 are from the Southland. All win a no-strings-attached gra
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Two L.A. Writers Win MacArthur 'Genius' Grants Five of this year's 23 winners were from Los Angeles. [ more › ]
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Highland Park author awarded $625,000″genius” grant; Councilman Ryu sets course for driverless vehicles; 710 Freeway closures Atwater Village | Viva La Maquina Josh Kun, a communications professor and author from Highland Park, is one of this year’s winners of a $625,000 MacArthur “genius” grant. L.A. Times 4th District Councilman David Ryu wants the city to be ready to support self-driving vehicles by 2035. Council District 4 Drivers and driver-less vehicles will have to take alternate routes as the northbound 710 Free
Five Southlanders named MacArthur Fellows; each receive $625K Three women and two men from the Los Angeles area are among the 23 2016 MacArthur Fellows announced Thursday night, who will each receive $625,000 over the next five years to allow them to pursue their own creative, intellectual and professional inclinations. The Southland MacArthur Fellows are: — Ahilan Arulanantham, the director of advocacy and legal director of the American Civil Liberties Uni
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Josh Kun, 4 other Angelenos win MacArthur grants This year's local genius grant winners have ties to USC, Caltech and CalArts.
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| Maggie Nelson and Josh Kun (Photos courtesy of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation) |
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