"Numerous academics are part of the 2025 class of MacArthur Foundation fellows announced Wednesday. This year, the foundation selected a slate of 22 "extraordinarily creative individuals" to receive the "genius award." Each recipient will get $800,000-no-strings attached-over the next five years to "foster and enable innovative, imaginative, and ground-breaking ideas, thinking, and strategies." Since the fellowship launched in 1981, fellows have included writers, scientists, artists, social scientists, humanists, teachers and entrepreneurs."
"Atmospheric scientist Ángel F. Adames Corraliza, an associate professor in the Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Department at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, for investigating the mechanisms underlying tropical weather patterns. Epidemiologist Nabarun Dasgupta, director of the Opioid Data Lab at the University of North Carolina's Injury Prevention Research Center, for advocating for harm reduction and creating practical programs to mitigate harms from drug use, particularly opioid overdose deaths."
The MacArthur Foundation awarded 22 fellowships in 2025, each providing $800,000 over five years with no strings attached to support innovative and groundbreaking work. Fellows span disciplines including the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. University-affiliated recipients include atmospheric scientists investigating tropical weather mechanisms and epidemiologists developing harm-reduction programs to reduce opioid overdose deaths. Other named scholars study human-environment coevolution, astrophysical systems, and political organization methods using mixed research approaches. The fellowships enable continued interdisciplinary research, practical program development, and theoretical advances across academic and public-interest domains.
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