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Byline: Patrick Healy
Sep. 18--Two Cambridge professors are among the first winners of a new $1 million "genius" prize that aims to reward science teaching with the kind of high-powered funding usually reserved for cutting-edge research.
Richard M. Losick, a molecular biologist at Harvard University, and Graham Walker, a biology professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, were among 20 university scientists nationwide to receive grants from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a nonprofit medical research organization based in Chevy Chase, Md.
"I feel like I'm part of a great adventure into the future of science education," said Walker, who studies how cells respond to DNA damage. "If the 20 of us…