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ALUMNI
2016 MACARTHUR FELLOW
Dianne Newman is an alumna of the 1987 and
1988 International Science and Engineering Fairs.
She received a 2016 MacArthur Fellowship for
her work merging methods and approaches from
disparate fields to investigate the co-evolution
of bacteria and their environments. She received
a B.A. (1993) from Stanford University and a
Ph.D. (1997) from the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology. Dianne is the Gordon M. Binder/
Amgen Professor of Biology and Geobiology in
the Divisions of Biology and Biological Sciences as
well as Geological and Planetary Sciences at the
California Institute of Technology.