Renewed faith will help Black lives matter, says 2023 religion award winner by Denise Fitzpatrick How do we really know God cares when Black people are still getting killed? How long do we have to wait for Godâs justice? Hearing her son ask those questions and seeing Black Lives Matter protests erupt nationwide after George […]
Disadvantaged students pay a price to move up, says 2023 education prize winner by Denise Fitzpatrick Disadvantaged college students pay a heavy ethical and emotional price to become upwardly mobile, says a scholar who today was named winner of the 2023 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Education. Jennifer Morton, an associate professor of philosophy […]
Unskilled people often overrate themselves, say 2023 psychology prize winners by Denise Fitzpatrick Are you as good at doing things as you think you are? Maybe not, according to David Dunning and Justin Kruger, two social psychologists who today were named cowinners of the 2023 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Psychology for identifying a […]
Digital technology aiding repression, says 2023 world order prize winner by Denise Fitzpatrick Digital technology is playing a growing role in advancing political repression across the globe, a trend that poses a threat to the worldâs democracies, says a scholar who today was named winner of the 2023 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Ideas […]
Julian Andersonâs âLitaniesâ wins 2023 music prize By Denise Fitzpatrick The Notre Dame Cathedral fire and the death of an esteemed colleague influenced the creation of âLitanies,â said Julian Anderson, a British composer named today as winner of the 2023 Grawemeyer Award in Music Composition for the work. âNotre Dame burned while I was writing […]
New Delhi: Mikhail Gorbachev, the final Soviet leader, passed away on Tuesday, August 30. He was 91 years old. He had aimed to revitalize the Soviet Union but instead released forces that caused communism to fall, the state to disintegrate, and the Cold War to come to an end. A statement from the Central Clinical […]
We are deeply saddened to note that Dr. Robert Jervis,  Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Affairs at Columbia University, passed away recently. Dr. Jervis was the winner of the 1990 World Order Award for his book, The Meaning of the Nuclear Revolution: Statecraft and the Prospect of Armageddon. Here is a link to Dr. Jervis’s […]
A scholar who explained how Japanese American Buddhists remained true to their faith even after being forced into U.S. detention camps during WWII has won the 2022 Grawemeyer Award in Religion. Duncan Ryuken Williams, a religion professor who directs the Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture at the University of Southern California, won […]
An economist who found that integrating U.S. public schools in the 1970s and 1980s benefited students over time has won the 2022 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Education. Rucker Johnson, a University of California-Berkeley public policy professor specializing in education economics, received the prize for ideas set forth in âChildren of the Dream: Why […]