German-American plant evolution biologist wins MacArthur Award

Tuesday, September 23, 2008 - 10:08 in Biology & Nature

Kirsten Bomblies at the Max Planck Institute in Tuebingen, Germany, has been awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. The 34-year-old evolutionary biologist will receive 500.000 Dollars over the next five years from the MacArthur Foundation. The extraordinary thing about this award: The money is not tied to a special purpose, but is designed to enable the recipient to unleash her creativity and advance her science...

Read the whole article on Science Centric

More from Science Centric

Related

Latest Science Newsletter

Get the latest and most popular science news articles of the week in your Inbox!