Featuring C-DEBI scientist Victoria Orphan<\/p>\n
Excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n Getting a phone call from an unidentified number in Chicago in late summer is a fantasy many artists, scientists and other creative people have entertained. But that doesn\u2019t mean it seems real when it actually happens.<\/p>\n \u201cI thought I was having a psychotic breakdown,\u201d the playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins<\/a> said of his reaction to learning several weeks ago that he was among the 23 people selected as 2016 fellows<\/a> of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cI went out on the street, and ran into a friend,\u201d Mr. Jacobs-Jenkins continued. \u201cI had him look at my cellphone, just to confirm that the call had been real.\u201d<\/p>\n This year\u2019s winners of the MacArthur fellowships, awarded for exceptional \u201coriginality, insight and potential,\u201d and publicly announced on Thursday, include writers, visual artists, scientists, nonprofit organization leaders and others, who are chosen at a moment when the recognition and money \u2014 a no-strings-attached grant of $625,000 distributed over five years \u2014 will make a difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Featuring C-DEBI scientist Victoria Orphan Excerpt: Getting a phone call from an unidentified number in Chicago in late summer is a fantasy many artists, scientists and other creative people have entertained. But that doesn\u2019t mean it seems real when it actually happens. \u201cI thought I was having a psychotic breakdown,\u201d the playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins said…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[41],"tags":[],"organization":[69],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10301"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10302,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10301\/revisions\/10302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10301"},{"taxonomy":"organization","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/organization?post=10301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}