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Source: AP
Historians in the News
9-20-11

University of Michigan historian awarded MacArthur genius grant


ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Three University of Michigan researchers are among the latest 22 recipients announced Tuesday of the no-strings-attached MacArthur Foundation "genius grants."

The list of winners of the $500,000 fellowships for 2011 by the Chicago-based John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation includes the Ann Arbor school's Tiya Miles, Melanie Sanford and Yukiko Yamashita.

"Their recognition by the MacArthur Foundation is powerful validation of their individual achievements, as well as the collective depth of the Michigan faculty," school President Mary Sue Coleman said in a statement.

Miles is director of the Department of Afroamerican & African Studies in the College of Literature, Science and the Arts. Sanford is a College of LSA professor. And Yamashita is an assistant professor at the Life Sciences Institute and an assistant professor at Michigan's medical school....

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