A MacArthur Fellow for Oregon State
Also known as a "genius award," this is about as cool as it gets. Congratulations to Kelly Benoit-Bird.
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Comments (4)
Wow. For a genius, she does a great job of explaining her work in easily understood terms.
I dug around in the site--the Fellowship comes with a $500,000 award!
Posted by Michelle | September 28, 2010 6:58 AM
I knew a genius and that's one sign: They can explain things in simple terms. It's the intermediate brains that sound intelligent who can't put it in easily understood laymen's terms. This guy was so smart when I'd ask him a question in college, he'd say something like, "I wondered that myself back in 3rd grade" and he was totally sincere - not trying to be mean.
By the way, my family won one of these awards: My cousin's wife came through, leaving me to ask my own wife why she couldn't step up her game a little.
Posted by Bill McDonald | September 28, 2010 10:30 AM
Dear Ms. Benoit-Bird; Would you please clone yourself and assign Your various sisters a variety of social ills which are in dire need of solutions. Thanks genop
Posted by genop | September 28, 2010 11:49 AM
Heck, they're just another bunch of diverse politically correct geeky run-of-the-mill dime-a-dozen geniuses.
More seriously, this is a great sort of recognition,especially since we don't have a Queen's List to honor achievement.
Posted by Don | September 29, 2010 12:09 PM