Kristina Olson announced as MacArthur Foundation Fellow

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SRCD member Kristina Olson, University of Washington, named as one of the winners of the MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant.

A University of Washington researcher has been named a winner of this year’s John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation fellowship, commonly dubbed the “genius grant.” Kristina Olson, 37, was one of 25 fellows selected by the foundation, which announced the winners Thursday. Each of the fellows will receive a $625,000 “no-strings-attached” grant “to exercise their own creative instincts for the benefit of human society,” the announcement said. Read the full article by Hannah Rodriguez from The Seattle Times.

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