UC San Diego.

• Position: Professors in University of California, San Diego - Brief article

When economics professor Paul Niehaus saw how overwhelming poverty and red tape in many African nations denied people access to a better life, he developed a no-strings method to deliver funds directly to a recipient's cell phone, reshaping international giving.

By tracing a severely under-documented history of Black women radicals from the '30s through the Cold War, ethnic studies professor Dayo Gore helped give our picture of '60s militancy a complete makeover.

Punk rocker. Poet. Pigeon-detective graphic novelist. Professor Anna Joy Springer pushes...