今年のマッカーサー・フェローが発表された。マッカーサー・アワードは俗にGenius Awardと呼ばれ、日本では全く馴染みがないが（Wikipediaにもない）、アメリカではよく知られている。

Quick Takes: Academics Win 2009 MacArthur ‘Genius’ Awards – Inside Higher Ed

• Maneesh Agrawala, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences at the University of California at Berkeley.
• Timothy Barrett, research scientist and adjunct professor at the Center for the Book at the University of Iowa.
• Esther Duflo, Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
• Deborah Eisenberg, short story writer and professor of creative writing at the University of Virginia.
• Lin He, assistant professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California at Berkeley.
• Peter Huybers, assistant professor of earth and planetary sciences at Harvard University.
• L. Mahadevan, De Valpine Professor of Applied Mathematics at Harvard University.
• Heather McHugh, Milliman Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at the University of Washington.
• Richard Prum, William Robertson Coe Professor of Ornithology, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University.
• John A. Rogers, Lee J. Flory-Founder Chair Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• Elyn Saks, Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law, Psychology, and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Southern California.
• Beth Shapiro, assistant professor of biology at Pennsylvania State University.
• Daniel Sigman, Dusenbury Professor of Geological and Geophysical Sciences at Princeton University.
• Mary Tinetti, Gladys Phillips Crofoot Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale University.
• Theodore Zoli, visiting lecturer in civil engineering at Princeton University and an adjunct professor of civil engineering and engineering mechanics at Columbia University.

詳細はマッカーサー財団のページにある。匿名の委員会により毎年20から40人程度に50万ドルの賞金が送られる。今年はうちの学校から二人選ばれたようなので宣伝してみた。また四年ぶりのエコノミストとしてMITのEsther Dufloが選ばれている。