UofL, seminary name 2024 Grawemeyer Award winners By Denise Fitzpatrick The University of Louisville and Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary announced 2024 recipients of five, $100,000 Grawemeyer Awards Dec. 4-8, 2023. UofL presents the annual prizes in music, world order, psychology, education and religion and gives the religion prize jointly with the seminary. All of the […]
Scholar focusing on Godâs human qualities wins 2024 religion prizeBy Denise Fitzpatrick God gets angry. God gets jealous. God hates, regrets and learns. Theologians often dismiss those depictions of God in the Bible because they seem to clash with Godâs image as an all-loving being, but an Episcopal priest with a different view has received […]
Scholar who explains how resilience develops wins 2024 psychology award By Denise Fitzpatrick A child psychologist who discovered that resilience in human development depends on âordinary magicâ has won the 2024 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Psychology. Ann Masten, a professor in the University of Minnesotaâs Institute of Child Development, earned the prize for […]
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 […]