The magazine gave its Godlike genius award to the Clash, whose singer Joe Strummer died in December.
Anchorman actor Will Ferrell collected his gong for the inaugural Comedic Genius award wearing a suit covered in US dollars.
In 1994, Coleman earned a MacArthur Genius award, and has been inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Ferrell was the inaugural recipient of the Comedic Genius Award, and he wore a three-piece suit covered in dollar bills to accept the prize.
Socolow himself might well be a candidate for a genius award.
She is also a recent recipient of the MacArthur Genius Award.
Belcher, who came to MIT in 2002, won a MacArthur "genius" award in 2004 and works out of an office that is littered with more matter, both organic and inorganic, than any living thing could create order from.
And we've done this, and this is why I got that award (the MacArthur Foundation "genius grant") was that we were the first group to identify an organism that comes from humans -- not dairy products -- that has demonstrable health benefits in both mice and in human cells, and we hope to someday give this to humans clinically to treat various indications.
It's good for you, says Robert Hass, Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997, two-time winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and winner in 1984 of a MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Grant.
Among this year's MacArthur fellowships sometimes called the "genius grant" is a half-million dollar award to a psychiatrist who helps heal combat veterans with post traumatic stress disorder by talking about the mythological Greek warriors Achilles and Odysseus.
"Will Ferrell epitomises what it means to be a comedic genius and it's only fitting that he should be the inaugural recipient of this award, " MTV's president Stephen Friedman said.
He's won the prestigious Macarthur Genius Grant and this year, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for music and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
He also sees endorsements as an opportunity not only to help fund tours and album parties (and host an award ceremony for his top fans at the celebration, during which he presented awards to Rap Genius and others), but to personally hold major companies accountable for their practices.
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