UW professor named MacArthur 'Genius'
Kristina Olson is a research psychologist and director of the TransYouth Project at the University of Washington.
Kristina Olson is one of 25 fellows tapped by the MacArthur Foundation for the $625,000 award. She is currently conducting the first large-scale, national, longitudinal study of socially-transitioned transgender children.
Kristina Olson, MacArthur Genius awardee
“Are you in a room where no one can hear you?” File under disturbing calls from an unknown number. University of Washington professor Kristina Olson had been dodging what seemed like a persistent telemarketer, and that opening conversational gambit wasn’t reassuring. But it turned out that she’d won the MacArthur Foundation “Genius” grant for her work as director of the TransYouth Project. She spoke to Bill about her research and what she hopes to do with the grant.
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Bill Radke
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Bill hosts Week In Review and Words in Review. After starting with KUOW as a University of Washington student in 1985, Bill was KUOW's morning host in the '90s and the creator of past show, Rewind, a news-satire show heard on KUOW and nationwide on NPR. Bill moved away to Southern California to host American Public Media's Weekend America and Marketplace Morning Report and returned to KUOW in 2012.
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