Earth & Environment Professor Lucy Hutyra Wins a 2023 MacArthur “Genius Grant”
“…Hutyra focuses on understanding the impacts of urbanization on climate and ecosystems, studying how urban environments influence trees and the carbon cycle, and advancing knowledge on how to meet climate action and emission reduction goals. She is one of 20 fellows whose names were announced Wednesday by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Each fellow receives an $800,000 no-strings-attached “genius grant,” spread over five years.
“This is just about the greatest honor I can imagine receiving,” Hutyra says. “To have my peers select me in such an anonymous and rigorous way highlights the impact of my group’s work and the importance of focusing on climate solutions in cities. I’m very grateful.”
The fellowship almost always comes as a surprise—the MacArthur Fellows program does not accept applications or outside nominations. Instead, potential awardees are selected through a pool of invited external nominators from a broad range of fields. Nominations are then evaluated by an independent committee that, after a multistep review, makes final recommendations to the president and board of directors of the MacArthur Foundation.”
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