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Deborah Bial
Foundation awards ‘genius grants’
A woman who helps students go to college with their “posse,” a psychiatrist who treats combat veterans and a museum director on Alaska’s Kodiak Island are among the 24 winners of this year’s MacArthur Foundation “genius grants.” Full story
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Deborah Bial
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Foundation awards ‘genius grants’
A woman who helps students go to college with their “posse,” a psychiatrist who treats combat veterans and a museum director on Alaska’s Kodiak Island are among the 24 winners of this year’s MacArthur Foundation “genius grants.”
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