Two Princeton Ph.D's awarded MacArthur "genius" grants

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<p>lisa curran, EEB, 1994</p>

<p><a href="http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.2070789/apps/nl/content2.asp?content_id=%7BB8D27813-4D43-4794-AC39-319E4261BCE0%7D&notoc=1"&gt;http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.2070789/apps/nl/content2.asp?content_id={B8D27813-4D43-4794-AC39-319E4261BCE0}&notoc=1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>terence tao, mathematics, 1996</p>

<p><a href="http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.2070789/apps/nl/content2.asp?content_id=%7B6DBB4260-1605-496C-8311-36328C702E50%7D&notoc=1"&gt;http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.2070789/apps/nl/content2.asp?content_id={6DBB4260-1605-496C-8311-36328C702E50}&notoc=1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>The former is currently a Yale professor!</p>

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<p>yes, indeed. i think i saw a few others with yalie credentials, too, including one who had a master's, of all things, from yale law.</p>

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<p>The latter is a UCLA professor!</p>

<p>Princeton didn't extend a fast-track tenure offer?</p>

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<p>from what i understand, the math department almost never hires its own. they made an exception for this guy, though (like tao, a popular science brilliant 10'er):</p>

<p><a href="http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pwb/03/1208/1b.shtml%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pwb/03/1208/1b.shtml&lt;/a>
<a href="http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/e095359b9fa84010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/e095359b9fa84010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html&lt;/a>
<a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4111253%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4111253&lt;/a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manjul_Bhargava%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manjul_Bhargava&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>President Ford, if I'm not mistaken, also has a masters from Yale Law. the LLM? maybe Byerly knows more about that.</p>