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Last Month's Trivia Contest Answer
In last month's trivia question, we noted that UW Earth and Space Sciences Professor David Montgomery had won a $500,000 fellowship from the MacArthur Foundation and asked how many MacArthur "genius grant" recipients the UW now has on its faculty. 1. 4
2. 6
3. 9
4. 12
5. 13
The correct answer is #3. Along with Montgomery, the UW's MacArthur winners include English professors Linda Bierds, Richard Kenney and Charles Johnson; biology professors Thomas Daniel and Victoria Foe; Yoky Matsuoka, associate professor of computer science and engineering; Mark Roth, an affiliate professor of biochemistry; and John Toews, professor of history and director of the Program in the Comparative History of Ideas. |
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