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MIT, Harvard, Yale researchers win ‘genius grants’

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

 

Six New England researchers have won “genius grants” from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

MIT economist Esther Duflo, Harvard researchers Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan and Peter Huybers, Yale researchers Richard Prum and Mary Tinetti, and Project HEALTH founder Rebecca Onie each received $500,000 to further their research.

Mahadevan, above tries to answer everyday questions with applied mathematics — how cloth falls, or how skin wrinkles.

After the jump, watch video of the remaining New England grant recipients. (more…)

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