MacArthur Foundation Fellowship

The MacArthur Foundation Fellowship Program provides unrestricted fellowships to exceptionally talented and promising individuals who have shown evidence of originality, dedication to creative pursuits, and capacity for self-direction. The Foundation awards Fellows an income ($30,000-75,000 annually) in quarterly installments over five years so that they may have the time and the freedom to fulfill their potential by devoting themselves to their own endeavors at their own pace. The Foundation hopes that this freedom from financial constraints will lead to discoveries or other significant contributions to society that otherwise might not be made.

Nominations are solicited from more than 100 nominators across the country in many academic and professional fields. Nominators are asked to propose extraordinarily creative and promising individuals who are at points in their careers when a fellowship could make a marked difference.

The following H&S faculty members have exemplified the spirit of the MacArthur Fellowship by "renewing our faith in human possibility":

Barbara Block, Biological Sciences/Hopkins Marine Station, 1996
Persi Diaconis, Statistics, 1982
David Donoho, Statistics, 1991
William Durham, Anthropology, 1983
Bradley Efron, Statistics, 1983
Paul Ehrlich, Biological Sciences, 1990
Alexander George*4, Political Science, 1983
Avner Greif, Economics, 1998
Shirley Brice Heath*3, English and Linguistics, 1984
Dan Jurafsky*2, Linguistics, 2002
Sharon Long, Biological Sciences, 1992
Douglas Osheroff*2, Physics, 1981
Arnold Rampersad, English, 1991
Adrienne Rich*3, English, 1994
David Rumelhart*3, Psychology, 1987
Robert Sapolsky, Biological Sciences, 1987
Stephen Schneider, Biological Sciences, 1992
Richard Schoen, Mathematics, 1983
Stephen Shenker*2, Physics, 1987
Eva Silverstein, Physics, 1999
Amos Tversky*4, Psychology, 1984

* I)Emeritus, 2)Won award before coming to Stanford., 3) Retired, 4) Deceased