Scholar who measures Pentagonâs carbon footprint wins 2024 world order prize By Denise Fitzpatrick The U.S. military must reduce its dependence on fossil fuels so the world can effectively address climate change, says the winner of the 2024 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order. Neta Crawford, an international relations professor at […]
Nontraditional choral work wins 2024 music composition prize By Denise Fitzpatrick Serbian-American composer Aleksandra Vrebalov has won the 2024 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Music Composition for âMissa Supratext,â a nontraditional choral work for string quartet and girlsâ chorus. Kronos Quartet, a group long known for nurturing musical innovation, and San Francisco Girlsâ Chorus, […]
Adams is known for works including the opera âNixon in Chinaâ and concert pieces such as âShaker Loops,â âHarmonielehre,â âRoad Movies,â and more. By:Â Chloe Rabinowitz Jun. 14, 2023 The Library of Congress has acquired the music manuscripts and papers of contemporary American composer, conductor and writer John Adams. Adams is known for works including the opera […]
The Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition notes with sadness the death of Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, 70. She won the Award in 2003 for her opera, âL`amour de loin,â (Love From Afar). (http://grawemeyer.org/2003-kaija-saariaho/). The opera continues to be performed all over the world and was featured in the Metropolitan Opera Live HD Broadcast series in […]
Yale Divinity School Professor Willie James Jennings will give Oxford Universityâs Bampton Lectures for 2023âthe first African American tapped for the 243-year-old lecture series and one of the few Americans ever to earn the distinction. Jennings, Associate Professor of Systematic Theology and Africana Studies, will give the lectures at Oxfordâs University Church on May 23 […]
Scott Straus, a UC Berkeley political scientist known for his study of political violence and genocide, has been named the Mahatma M.K. Gandhi Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (AAPSS). Straus is one of six U.S. fellows honored this year, the Academy announced, âin recognition of their contributions to social science and the extent […]
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 […]