MacArthur Foundation fellows

• Marin Alsop, 48, the principal conductor of England's Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Alsop was recently named the music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.

• Ted Ames, 66, fisherman, Stonington, Maine. Ames merges the roles of scientist and lobsterman to research and suggest changes in fisheries management.

• Terry Belanger, 64, professor and honorary curator of special collections at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. The rare book preservationist founded the Rare Book School, a non-profit institute devoted to the histories of manuscripts, print and electronic text.

• Edet Belzberg, 35, documentary filmmaker, New York. Belzberg is best know for "Children Underground," about a group of homeless children living in a Romanian train station.

• Majora Carter, 38, urban strategist, New York. Carter is founder and executive director of Sustainable South Bronx, an organization that seeks to create new opportunities in the area for recreation, nutrition, transit and economic development.

• Lu Chen, 33, assistant professor of neurobiology at the University of California, Berkeley. Chen's work with the synapse sheds light on the biology of learning and memory.

• Michael Cohen, 61, president of the Institute for Safe Medication Practices in Huntingdon Valley, Pa. Cohen is a pharmacist who has worked to reduce preventable drug and drug delivery mistakes.

• Joseph Curtin, 52, principal, Joseph Curtin Studios in Ann Arbor, Mich. Curtin is a violinmaker who produces world-class violins.

• Aaron Dworkin, 35, founder and president of the Detroit-based Sphinx Organization. Dworkin seeks to increase the numbers of minorities in classical music careers by exposing children to music early and offering them access to training and instruments.

• Teresita Fernandez, 37, sculptor, New York. Fernandez integrates architecture and common building materials into her work.

• Claire Gmachl, 38, associate professor of electrical engineering at Princeton University. Gmachl works in the fields of optics and semiconductor laser technology.