Melanie Sanford receives MacArthur "Genius" Award

Photo courtesy the John D.
& Catherine T. MacArthur
Foundation.

CENTC investigator Melanie Sanford has been named a recipient of the 2011 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, otherwise known as the Genius Award. The MacArthur Fellows Program awards unrestricted $500,000 fellowships to talented individuals who have shown extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction. The award cites Melanie's work “reviving and enhancing approaches to organic synthesis previously set aside because of their technical difficulty”.

Melanie is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Chemistry at the University of Michigan. Read more about the MacArthur Fellows Program and the full citation of Melanie's award.