Shahzia Sikander Gets Genius Grant

Melissa Hung
September 20, 2006

Other Asian Americans on the list:

Atul Gawande Surgeon and author (he writes for the New Yorker) applying a critical eye and fresh perspective to modern surgical practice, articulating its realities, complexities, and challenges, in the interest of improving outcomes and saving lives.

Terence Tao Mathematician (at UCLA) bringing technical brilliance and profound insight to a host of seemingly intractable problems in such areas as partial differential equations, harmonic analysis, combinatorics, and number theory.

Full list of this year's 25 winners here. It's a pretty impressive list. The winners get $500,000 over five years, with no strings attached. Congratulations!

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Melissa Hung

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Melissa Hung is the founding editor of Hyphen. She was the editor in chief for the magazine's first five years and went on to serve in many other leadership roles on the staff and board for more than a decade. She is a writer and freelance journalist. Her essays and reported stories have appeared in NPR, Vogue, Pacific Standard, Longreads, and Catapult, among others. She grew up in Texas, the eldest child of immigrants. Find her on Twitter and Instagram.

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rebecca wrote on Wed, 09/27/2006 - 5:03pm
Some of her prints are up at the De Young, part of an exhibition on artists' work for Crown Point Press. They're soooo fricking cool.