Sentences with phrase «genius award»

In 1990 she won a MacArthur genius award for her work in biomechanics.

He is a professor and curator of paleontology at the MSU Museum of the Rockies and an author, he was a technical adviser on the three Jurassic Park movies, and he won a MacArthur genius award for his work on dinosaur behavior.

Harvard University Professor Roland Fryer, a recent MacArthur Foundation Genius Award Winner; Terry Grier, Superintendent of the Houston Independent School District; Dennis Van Roekel, President of the National Education Association; Karen Cator, Director of the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Educational Technology, and LearnZillion Founder Eric Westendorf are among the participants in the panel discussions.

Since wining a MacArthur genius award in 2002, the political content of her work has become more indirect, filtered through a spiritual and «mythical» approach to beading processes learned while working with a team of Zulu women in Durban, South Africa.

Harvard University Professor Roland Fryer, a recent MacArthur Foundation Genius Award Winner; Terry Grier, Superintendent of the Houston Independent School District; Dennis Van Roekel, President of the National Education Association; and Democracy Prep Schools Founder and Superintendent Seth Andrew were among the panelists to discuss the new proposals.

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Costner took home the Lifetime Achievement Award; Howard received the LOUIS XIII Critics» Choice Genius Award.

Well, I didn't care how insignificant it was, I was so excited that something I had made and put on the menu was mentioned in a prominent cooking magazine that you would've thought they said, Chef Kate Curnes is a brilliant woman who we are hereby nominating for the McArthur Genius Award.

In 2009 he was awarded the Order of the Volta and posthumously awarded the Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah African Genius Award in 2017.

1 The latest winners of the Nobel Prize — the big kahuna of genius awards — will be announced this month.

Actress Melissa McCarthy accepts the Comedic Genius Award onstage during the 2016 MTV Movie Awards at Warner Bros..

This year's Louis XIII Genius Award went to Ron Howard; the Lifetime Achievement Award was given to Kevin Costner and the very first MVP Award (for the most prodigious body of work over the last year) went to Jessica Chastain.

The actors starred together in the movie Before Midnight and they received the Critics» Choice Louis XIII Genius Award along with the movie trilogy's writer / director Richard Linklater.

Will Ferrell wore a three - piece suit covered in dollar bills to accept the Comedic Genius Award from «Game of Thrones» star Peter Dinklage.

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Most recently, LaToya Ruby Frazier received the MacArthur Genius Award after already winning the Guggenheim fellowship; Deanna Lawson was selected for the 2017 Whitney Biennial; Juan Giraldo was chosen by PDN Magazine as one of this year's top 30 photographers to watch, and Paul Mpagi Sepuya was featured in MoMA's landmark exhibition Being: New Photography 2018.

Lee has been named an «Artist to Watch» by the national publication Artnews and received the Stranger Visual Art Genius Award.

The company is currently in the running for a National Geographic Chasing Genius award, and more information about the product is available at FireBee Charger.

She is a 2007 MacArthur Fellow, commonly referred to as Genius Award.

This includes an ambassador program, global songwriting workshops, The Secret Genius Awards, podcasts and curated playlists, says Spotify.

So in 1982, Moses used a MacArthur Foundation Genius Award to start the Algebra Project, a nonprofit working with low - scoring math students to prepare them for college - level math courses.

«The Stranger Genius Awards: Victoria Haven - An Artist Between Dimensions.»

The 74 made this video about Juan Salgado, the 2015 MacArthur genius award winner who has launched two charter schools in Chicago through an organization called Instituto Del Progresso Latino.

McCarthy became the first female recipient of the Comedic Genius Award, crowd - surfing her way to the stage and name - checking a slew of female comedians that inspired her — as well as her mother.

A fascinating look at the contrast between and the interactions of the African and western cultures... As Nijedeka is a 2017 MacArthur genius award winner who deserves to be better known; this book is a great way to learn more about the artist and her work.

But the forces around us constantly encourage us to downplay its importance, so much so that when I began a project interviewing MacArthur Fellows (recipients of the so - called creative «Genius Award») about creativity, I inadvertently and subconsciously chose not to emphasize play in my interview questions.

Case in point: the partners created a «Genius Award» to reward employees who did stellar work, but the program languished when the founders became too busy to hand out the awards.

In 1996 Goldstein became a MacArthur Fellow, receiving the prize which is popularly known as the «Genius Award.»

Cuomo told the MTA to hold a «Genius Award» contest to find the best ideas on how to overcome the seemingly unfixable subway problems of the ancient signal system, the aging fleet of cars, and the lack of cellular and wi - fi connections on trains and in tunnels.

In September, Tucker was named a MacArthur Fellow, winning a $ 500,000 genius award for his work at GHI.

As this feature went to press, the winners of the latest MacArthur Foundation «genius awards» had just been announced.

Kauffman, a MacArthur «genius award» winner, pioneered the application of complexity theory to the life sciences.

Coming after a pair of EPs and a «Genius Award» from local weekly The Stranger, SP's debut Black Up has emerged as one of the best - reviewed hip hop LPs of 2011.

Industrial Light & Magic was presented with the Genius Award at Critics» Choice last night.

The Seattle Stranger shortlisted Kasulke for its Genius Award in Film in 2007.

She won the MacArthur Genius Award and is a faculty member of NYU School of Education.

In 1996 Goldstein became a MacArthur Fellow, receiving the prize which is popularly known as the «Genius Award.»

Akunyili Crosby, who was raised in Nigeria and moved to the United States in 1999, received her MFA from Yale in 2011, and was awarded a MacArthur Foundation «Genius Award» in 2017.

Through a fiercely individual approach and persistent experimentation with technique and materials, Snyder has extended the expressive potential of abstract painting... read more... «Joan Snyder receives MacArthur genius award»

In 1997, he was awarded a MacArthur Foundation «Genius Award» Fellowship.