News Briefing: MacArthur Foundation Awards 24 ‘Genius Grants’
By Kate Golden on September 22, 2009No Comment
- The MacArthur Foundation announces its 24 "genius grants." [Associated Press]
- Managers at the National Institutes of Health are giving hundreds of millions of dollars a year to scientists whose projects are deemed less scientifically worthy than those denied money. [New York Times]
- An antipoverty program that pays families up to $5,000 a year for going to regular medical checkups, attending school, and keeping jobs has been extended for a third year. [New York Times]
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