Host Dave Schlom visits with brand new MacArthur Fellowship award winner Kareem El-Badry, an astrophysicist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. Kareem is an amazing young man who grew up in Roseburg, Oregon and went on to pursue his passion for learning about the stars.
Now he's one of the latest members of an elite group: the MacArthur Fellows. Also known as "The Genius Grant," the fellowship is awarded to promising and gifted people with an $800,000 no-strings-attached grant. El-Badry studies some of the most amazing objects in deep space: black holes, binary stars and hyper velocity stars that are travelling at such high speeds, they can escape the massive gravitational pull of their parent galaxies. It's a fascinating look at modern astronomy with a truly gifted and talented mind!
