This year's MacArthur Fellows include researchers who fuse science and justice

These MacArthur Fellows include two whose work fuse science and justice The MacArthur Foundation has just announced its latest batch of 20 fellows. Among the recipients of the $800,000 "no-strings-attached" fellowships are researchers who were recognized for their work at the intersection of science and justice.

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Kate Spradley and Felipe De Brigard are two of this year's MacArthur Fellows, each working at the interface of science and justice.

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

It should have been a fairly routine exhumation of a man's body from a local cemetery in Brooks County in southern Texas: ask the funeral home to point out the right plot on a map, and then dig up the remains with shovels and trowels.

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But Kate Spradley , a forensic anthropologist at Texas State University, had run into a problem.

"We don't know where he's buried," the staff there told her.

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