OT: Geniuses in Berkeley

[M2]

Three Berkeley professors were among the 25 2005 MacArthur Foundation Fellows named this morning and will receive $500,000 in grant money over the next five years (so-called genius grants). They are:

--Lu Chen, 33, assistant professor of neurobiology at the University of California, Berkeley. Chen's work with the synapse sheds light on the biology of learning and memory.

--Nicole King, 35, assistant professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley. King's work seeks to reconstruct the emergence of multicellular organisms that form the base of the animal kingdom.

--Michael Manga, 37, associate professor of earth and planetary science, University of California, Berkeley. Manga is a geophysicist who has explored phenomena ranging in scale from microscopic to planetary.

Note – Berkeley had more recipients than any other university. The University of Chicago was the only other school with multiple (2) recipients.

m2 is the truth


Go Bears! Not just a football school.

[peter dragon]

whats this have to do with College football? TrOtS!

[King Crimson]

Go Bears! Not ever a football school.

[the_ouskull]

Putting a few people in the NFL from time to time with names that can't be pronounced in the English language isn't the same thing as being a football school, idiot.

the_ouskull

[Cicero]

EAT A GRENADE!!!

[Q, West Coast Style]

I'm starting to think that m2 is a member of the UC Berkely Board of Regents. He sounds like he spends a lot of time pimping the school for donations.