Also announced Thursday were computer scientists Subhash Khot and Bill Thies, synthetic chemist Jin-Quan Yu and biologist-inventor Manu Prakash, microbiologist Dianne Newman and geobiologist Victoria Orphan. Other fellows are sculptor Vincent Fecteau, art historian and curator Kellie Jones, cultural
Date: Sep 22, 2016
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'Now my life will change': Meet the 2016 MacArthur 'geniuses'
Others were awarded the fellowship for their accomplishments in science, technology, engineering and math, including Subhash Khot, 38, a theoretical computer scientist at New York University; Dianne Newman, 44, a microbiologist at the California Institute of Technology; Jos A. Quionez, 45, directo
Date: Sep 22, 2016
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Claudia Rankine, Gene Luen Yang Among 2016 MacArthur 'Geniuses'
Dianne Newman, a microbiologist who studies the historical relationship between bacteria and the earth. Newman is using the insights she has gained about ancient bacteria to understand how modern bacterial communities grow and survive in low-oxygen environments of contemporary biomedical significan
In laboratory experiments, former MIT graduate student Jacob Waldbauer, working with Professor of Geobiology Roger Summons and Dianne Newman, at the California Institute of Technology, found that yeast an organism that can survive with or without oxygen is able to produce key oxygen-dependent co