“Neruda Songs,” a song cycle written by composer Peter Lieberson that became a parting gift to his dying wife, has earned the 2008 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition. The work, a group of songs based on five love poems by Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, was chosen for the prize among 140 entries […]
2008 – Margaret Farley “Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics” 2008 – Margaret Farley Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual EthicsA Yale scholar who says justice is an essential part of sexual ethics has won the 2008 Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion. Margaret Farley, a professor emerita of Christian ethics at Yale […]
A North Carolina scholar has earned the 2007 Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion for his memoir analyzing the social and spiritual effects of a racially motivated murder in his hometown. In his 2004 book, “Blood Done Sign My Name,” Timothy Tyson tells the story of the killing of a young black man, Henry Marrow, by […]
The old saying “monkey see, monkey do” also applies to human behavior, say a trio of Italian scientists who have earned the 2007 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Psychology. Researchers Giacomo Rizzolatti, Vittorio Gallese and Leonardo Fogassi have identified a “mirror neuron” system of brain cells in monkeys that also exists in humans. The […]
The alliance of nations trying to keep Afghanistan from reverting to a haven for terrorists needs to “go big or get out” if it is serious about solving the problem. So says Roland Paris, associate professor of public and international affairs at University of Ottawa and winner of the 2007 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award […]
Education works best when parents, teachers, other school employees and the community pull together to make it happen, says the winner of the 2007 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Education. Federal law mandates instruction for all children but overlooks the need to help them become successful adults, James Comer, a Yale University child psychiatry […]
“Static,” a chamber music work by American composer Sebastian Currier, has earned the 2007 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition. The name of the six-movement piece for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano reflects “different meanings of the word ‘static,’ which can be a state of quiet balance or the erratic noise between […]
“Gilead,” a book by Marilynne Robinson that earned this year’s 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, also has claimed the 2006 Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion. It is the first time a novel has won the Grawemeyer religion prize, which is given jointly by Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary and the University of Louisville. Described as “profoundly […]
How do people know where they are and how they got there? Two scientists who have helped identify the brain’s mapping system earned the 2006 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Psychology. John O’Keefe and Lynn Nadel, who explained their theory in a 1978 book, “The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map” and in later journal […]
Aid agencies need to think things through when they give help, or they can end up worsening the problems they hoped to fix. That warning, delivered by Fiona Terry, director of research for the French section of the international agency Doctors Without Borders, has won the University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World […]