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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Psychologist Terrie Moffitt has won the 2022 Grawemeyer Award in Psychology for shedding new light on the nature of juvenile crime. Moffitt, a Duke University psychologist and Kingâs College, London, social development professor, discovered two types of antisocial behavior in juveniles. One persists from early childhood to adulthood, is relatively rare and seen mostly in […]
Rutgers University scholar Mona Lena Krook has won the 2022 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order for exploring the nature of violence against women in politics and suggesting ways to prevent it. Krook, a political science professor who chairs Rutgersâ doctoral program on women and politics, received the prize for ideas […]