{"id":9199,"date":"2006-09-19T02:27:13","date_gmt":"2006-09-19T02:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=9199"},"modified":"2006-09-19T02:27:13","modified_gmt":"2006-09-19T02:27:13","slug":"macarthur-genius-awards-just-announced-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9199","title":{"rendered":"MacArthur &#8220;Genius Awards&#8221; Just Announced And&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;inexplicably, I&#8217;m not on the list. But don&#8217;t despair. Other worthies are, and a number of them do interesting science and technology. Among the grantees:<\/p>\n<p> * Victoria Hale, who &#8230;founded&#8230; a nonprofit pharmaceutical company that seeks to develop low-cost drugs for malaria and other diseases that are widespread in developing countries.<\/p>\n<p> * James Fruchterman, who&#8230; adapts technologies to help raise literacy rates and improve the lives of low-income people worldwide.<\/p>\n<p> *Kenneth Catania,&#8230; A neurobiologist, his study of the star-nosed mole and other mammalian insectivores provides insights into the organization and evolution of the sensory cortex.<\/p>\n<p> *Kevin Eggan&#8230; a developmental biologist whose work on the use of nuclear-transfer and stem-cell technologies could lead to therapeutic applications for diseases such as Parkinson&#8217;s and insulin-dependent diabetes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/philanthropy.com\/free\/update\/2006\/09\/2006091901.htm\" target=\"new\">whole piece<\/a> in The Chronicle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;inexplicably, I&#8217;m not on the list. But don&#8217;t despair. Other worthies are, and a number of them do interesting science and technology. Among the grantees: * Victoria Hale, who &#8230;founded&#8230; a nonprofit pharmaceutical company that seeks to develop low-cost drugs for malaria and other diseases that are widespread in developing countries. * James Fruchterman, who&#8230; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9199\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MacArthur &#8220;Genius Awards&#8221; Just Announced And&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}