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MacArthur grants go to Chicago arts groups
More than $500,000 will go to 13 Chicago non-profit cultural organizations from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation’s International Connections Fund. The resources will enable recipients “to conduct collaborations with arts...Tags: Music, Entertainment, Culture, Cultural Development, Catherine T. MacArthur
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$50,000 bounty to quiet robocallers
Game on, "Rachel from Cardholder Services," wherever you are. The Federal Trade Commission has announced it will award $50,000 to the person who comes up with the best technological solution to the problem of increasingly crafty robocallers who pepper...
Tags: Music, Baseball, Entertainment, American League, Detroit Tigers
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At Savage library lab, teens get turned on to technology
A new space at the Savage branch of the Howard County Library is giving teens the opportunity to experiment with the latest digital technology. And the HiTech digital learning lab has developed a following, with some students coming every afternoon,...
Tags: Music, Entertainment, University of Maryland, College Park, Science and Technology, Social Media
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$2 million prize announced for cure for blindness by 2020
Singer Art Garfunkel, a real estate magnate and an investor are putting $2 million in gold bullion on the line to inspire researchers to cure blindness by 2020, establishing through Johns Hopkins Medicine one of the world's largest prizes for a scientific...Tags: Environmental Issues, Health Organizations, Research, Glaucoma, Health and Safety at School
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Dylan C. Penningroth sheds light on slavery in America
Conventional wisdom suggests that slaves in America were deemed property and, therefore, couldn't have possessed property of their own. Dylan C. Penningroth, 41, a history professor at Northwestern University, has altered that notion with research...
Tags: Judges, Religion and Belief, Justice System, Social Issues, Northwestern University
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The Punch Brothers Play at the Jorgensen Center in Storrs on Oct. 4
This generation is undoubtedly experiencing history’s most expansive and diverse collection of musical genres to date. What with the boom of social media and music sharing sites like Facebook and Spotify, it’s effortless for an artist to...
Tags: Music, Entertainment, Artists, Music Theater, Apple iPod
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Enoch Pratt hosted MacArthur geniuses
If you're a regular attendee at the author appearances at the Enoch Pratt Free Library, you've seen a fair share of geniuses. Junot Diaz and Dinaw Mengestu -- who today received "genius" grants from the MacArthur Foundation -- have appeared in recent...Tags: Junot Diaz, Enoch Pratt Free Library
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'Genius grant' winner Ken Vandermark gets nod from Chicago Jazz Festival
The most intriguing work at this year's Chicago Jazz Festival, running Thursday through Sunday, may come from the horn of MacArthur "genius grant" winner Ken Vandermark. As this year's artist-in-residence, the hyperinventive Chicago reedist-bandleader-...
Tags: Music, Entertainment, Entertainment Events, Michigan Avenue, Music Industry
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Apocalypse Not: Ingenuity Thwarts Doomsday
The Hartford CourantSometimes the news is that something was not newsworthy. The United Nation's Rio+20 conference — 50,000 participants from 188 nations — occurred in June, without consequences. A generation has passed since the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio, which...Tags: Environmental Issues, The New York Times, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Science and Technology, Population and Census
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Dispatch from a climate-change convert
Change of SubjectRichard A. Muller, a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, and a former MacArthur Foundation fellow, writes in the New York Times: Three years ago I identified problems in previous climate studies that, in my mind, threw...... -
New boss for MacArthur 'genius grants'
Cecilia Conrad, vice president for academic affairs and dean of Pomona College, in Claremont, Ca., will be the next director of the MacArthur Fellows Program. She will replace Daniel Socolow, who last year announced he was leaving the position after 15...
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Gov. Jerry Brown names two to Cal State board
L.A. NOWA corporate attorney and the founder of California’s first migrant worker bilingual radio station were appointed Friday to the California State University Board of Trustees, the governor’s office announced. Gov. Jerry Brown appointed Hugo...
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