The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is increasing from $500,000 to $625,000 the stipend it awards to individuals through its MacArthur Fellows Program, popularly known as the “genius ...

Lawmakers rejected a pretrial monitoring program Monday that was requested by South Dakota’s top judicial official, as some ...

Palm Beach County has terminated a contract with the MacArthur Foundation that had been paying for a program to reduce the jail population because the initiative no longer aligns with the county's ...

This philanthropic investment builds on significant recent momentum. Just last month, the Robert K. Ross Center for Hope and Healing community received a major award from the State of California's ...

On October 8, the MacArthur Foundation announced its new class of fellows who work across the sciences, humanities, and arts. Each year, the fellowship recognizes “extraordinarily talented and ...

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Convinced that it is making, progress reducing the time people spend in jail awaiting court action, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation added $22 million in criminal-justice grants to ...

A political scientist who studies what helps people connect across differences. A novelist whose books about Native American communities in Oakland, California, sparked a passionate following. A ...

The MacArthur Foundation awarded UC Berkeley associate professor Teresa Puthussery, UC Berkeley engineering alumnus William Tarpeh and UC Berkeley astrophysics alumnus Kareem El-Badry with the “Genius ...