The Foundation for the Preservation of Honey Bees

Vice Chairperson Marla Spivak Gets $500,000
CHICAGO—A honey-bee breeder, a jellyfish scholar, a stone carver and an Emmy-winning screenwriter were among 23 people awarded $500,000 “genius” grants Sept. 28, 2010, by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation here.
“It just blew me away,” said Marla Spivak, a 55-year-old professor of apiculture at the University of
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