For the Record - Oct. 12, 2017

MacArthur fellows: In the Oct. 11 Calendar section, an article about MacArthur fellowship winners quoted Cecilia Conrad, a managing director of the MacArthur Foundation, as saying this year’s fellows included many “interspecies” of different fields. The quote should have read “interstices” of different fields.

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