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...group of academic and non-profit institutions—including Harvard University, the Smithsonian Institution, and the MacArthur Foundation—has announced the launch of a major online peer-reviewed database of species...
...press release notes a $10 million grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and $2.5 million grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the draft description estimates EOL's five-year operating budget at $40 million...
...book “Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science” was a finalist for the National Book Award, and in 2006 he received the MacArthur “genius grant” for his research and writing...
...anyone can change that, it's Angela Belcher. A materials scientist and bioengineer at M.I.T., Belcher, 49, won a MacArthur Foundation genius grant in 2004, and last fall Scientific American named her research leader of the year for her current project: creating an entirely new kind of battery, not by building it but by growing it. Working with several M.I.T. colleagues, Belcher has engineered a virus, known as M13 bacteriophage, that latches onto and coats itself with bits of inorganic materials, including gold and cobalt oxide. That turns each long, tubular virus into what amounts to a minuscule length...
...Americans believed Walter Reed helped make good on their IOU. My fellow amputees on Ward 57 knew that if you had to lose a limb, you were in the right place, a citadel of excellence where President Eisenhower and generals from Pershing to MacArthur went to die. Even during this war, the hospital seemed to symbolize the one thing going right for the Army--dramatically improved odds of surviving serious injury and of restoring function among the survivors. Today's soldiers may not be able to stop roadside bombs from blowing off their limbs, but they'll walk...