UC Faculty and Alumni Receive MacArthur 'Genius Grants'
Seven UC faculty and alumni have been awarded MacArthur 'genius grants' since 2020, accounting for nearly 1 in 4 recipients of the prestigious fellowship.
The MacArthur Foundation provides an $800,000, no-strings-attached grant to support the winner's interests. This year, six University of California alumni and one UC faculty member are among the 22 winners of the 2025 MacArthur Foundation fellowships.
The awards recognize outstanding scholars, creators, and activists whose talent and dedication reshape their fields and serve humanity.
- An astrophysicist investigating how stars form and evolve
- An interdisciplinary artist giving aesthetic shape to the enduring repercussions of violence and dispossession
- An evolutionary biologist investigating symbiotic partnerships between plants, fungi, and other microbes
Author's summary: UC faculty and alumni receive prestigious MacArthur grants.
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