Brown eighth on list for producing most MacArthur Fellows

BROWN UNIVERSITY ranked eighth on a list of undergraduate institutions that produced the most MacArthur Fellows between 1981 and 2014 with 14. / COURTESY MACARTHUR FOUNDATION
BROWN UNIVERSITY ranked eighth on a list of undergraduate institutions that produced the most MacArthur Fellows between 1981 and 2014 with 14. / COURTESY MACARTHUR FOUNDATION

PROVIDENCE – Brown University placed eighth on a list of colleges that produced the most MacArthur Fellows from 1981 to 2014, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Brown produced 14 fellows during that time. The Rhode Island School of Design placed No. 36, with four MacArthur Fellows in the time period.
The list was released by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation on Thursday; the foundation releases individual grants worth $625,000 to a prestigious group of fellows each year.
Ivy League schools dominated the top 10 with Harvard University first with 72 during the 33-year period, followed by Princeton University with 28; University of California at Berkeley, 20; Yale University, 19; Cornell University, 18; Stanford University, 17; and Columbia University, 15.
The University of Chicago and University of Michigan each tied Brown with 14.
In addition, the foundation placed Barnard College, a women’s college that is part of Columbia, at No. 14, with 10 MacArthur Fellows, while also listing Columbia’s Teacher’s College among those schools with one fellow, thus moving Columbia to No. 3 on the list. The foundation also listed Radcliffe College, which was separate but associated with Harvard but now no longer exists, at No. 20 with seven fellows, adding to Harvard’s total.
According to information from the MacArthur Foundation, a total of six MacArthur fellows that received grants between 1981 and 2013 were born in Rhode Island, while 10 were in Rhode Island during the time of their award between 1981 and 2013.
The MacArthur Fellows Program awards unrestricted fellowships – known as genius grants – to talented individuals who have shown “extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction,” according to the MacArthur Foundation website.

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