Researchers working in two cutting-edge but quite different realms of theoretical genetics, both with significant practical applications, are among those chosen in this year's MacArthur Fellows Program Awards, also known as the MacArthur "genius awards." James J. Collins, biomedical engineer at Boston University, and Loren H. Rieseberg, botanist at Indiana University at Bloomington, will each get $500,000 to spend any way he wishes.
Rieseberg, who learned of his good fortune last Tuesday (September 30), told