MacArthur ‘Genius Grant’ Winners Include Sci-Fi Junkie and an MIT Economist

Awards recognize artists, scientists, economists, musicians and activists

Sarah Stewart was a science-fiction junkie and “Star Trek” fan growing up.

Now, she creates collisions of rocks and other materials at high speed with a scientific cannon in her lab to get a better idea of how the Earth and moon were formed more than four billion years ago.

“It is a pretty cool job,” she says.

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