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...Harvard faculty has yet another genius in its midst, according to the MacArthur Foundation which awarded Peter Galison, Mallinckrodt professor of the history of science and of physics, a 'genius' grant...
Galison, 42, received $265,000 from the foundation. MacArthur Fellowships are unrestricted awards in support of individuals, not specific projects, and do not require a report or any other production by recipients...
...delighted that Galison, intellectual eclectic and reviver of history of science, should be supported by the MacArthur Foundation," said Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Jeremy R. Knowles. "What good taste they have...
...Ultimately, Harvard had to intervene, endorsing the study on the strength of the impeccable antidrug credentials Weil had earned as a result of the Leary-Alpert affair. Not long after, federal officials relented. "One day," says Woodward Wickham, Weil's Harvard roommate and now a vice president at the MacArthur Foundation in Chicago, "this box of government marijuana just arrived in the mail...
Meier, a GSE lecturer and a MacArthur fellow, broke with the other five panelists, who all supported the study. Meier said that national assessments do not accurately measure literacy and other academic skills...