page_title: MacArthur Fellows Program
section_title: 2000
hierarchical_section_title: MacArthur Fellows Program / Recipients / 2000
caption_attribution_description: Cecilia Muñoz, Director of White House Intergovernmental Affairs.
context_page_description: The MacArthur Fellows Program, also known as the MacArthur Fellowship and commonly but unofficially known as the "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation typically to between 20 and 30 individuals, working in any field, who have shown "extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction" and are citizens or residents of the United States.
  According to the foundation's website, "the fellowship is not a reward for past accomplishment, but rather an investment in a person's originality, insight, and potential". The current prize is $625,000 paid over five years in quarterly installments. This figure was increased from $500,000 in 2013 with the release of a review of the MacArthur Fellows Program. Since 1981, 942 people have been named MacArthur Fellows, ranging in age from 18 to 82. The award has been called "one of the most significant awards that is truly 'no strings attached'".
  The program does not accept applications.
context_section_description: Susan E. Alcock, archaeologist
  K. Christopher Beard, paleontologist
  Lucy Blake, conservationist
  Anne Carson, poet
  Peter J. Hayes, energy policy activist
  David Isay, radio producer
  Alfredo Jaar, photographer
  Ben Katchor, graphic novelist
  Hideo Mabuchi, physicist
  Susan Marshall, choreographer
  Samuel Mockbee, architect
  Cecilia Muñoz, civil rights policy analyst
  Margaret Murnane, optical physicist
  Laura Otis, literary scholar and historian of science
  Lucia M. Perillo, poet
  Matthew Rabin, economist
  Carl Safina, marine conservationist
  Daniel P. Schrag, geochemist
  Susan E. Sygall, civil rights leader
  Gina G. Turrigiano, neuroscientist
  Gary Urton, anthropologist
  Patricia J. Williams, legal scholar
  Deborah Willis, historian of photography and photographer
  Erik Winfree, computer and materials scientist
  Horng-Tzer Yau, mathematician
caption: Cecilia Muñoz
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