2009 MacArthur Grant Recipients Announced

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced 24 "Genius Awards" recipients today, including New Yorkers Theodore Zoli, Deborah Eisenberg and Rackstraw Downes. They also include L. Mahadevan, "an applied mathematician at Harvard who investigates behaviors like how flags flutter and how skin wrinkles." Apparently, studies like this merit $500,000? The Times has a full list of the winners.

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Love Rackstraw Downes. Congrats to him.

Congratulations to the above people singled out above, but I've never heard of them. The big news is Brooklynite author Edwidge Danticat also received an award! Don't tell me you've never heard of HER…

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