Congratulations to the five (5) 2025 Grawemeyer Award winners. The Grawemeyer Awards recognize highly constructive ideas with world changing potential and thatās certainly true of the ideas that will be honored on Thursday, April 10. During the week of April 7, the award recipients will give a public presentation. The University of Louisville and Louisville […]
Stanford professor cited for research demonstrating the benefits of managing feelings earlyBy: Grawemeyer Awards, University of Louisville For noticing and explicating the different ways people manage their feelings, and for creating and developing the field of emotion regulation, Stanford Psychology Professor James Gross, the Ernest R. Hilgard Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences […]
Georgetown professorās book, Loving Our Own Bones, inspires reappraisal of disabilityBy: Grawemeyer Awards, University of Louisville For reconsidering the relationship between disability and spirituality, Georgetown University Professor of Jewish Studies, Rabbi Julia Watts Belser will receive the 2025 Grawemeyer Award for Religion, the University of Louisville and Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary announced today. Not only […]
London composerās installation piece hailed for balancing space and sonic geographyGrawemeyer Award, University of Louisville For creating Invisible Threads, a work that changes how music is usually experienced by employing a spatially shifting ensemble of 12 musicians and encouraging its audience to roam the performance space throughout its 70 minutes, London-based composer Christian Mason will […]
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 Godās 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 Godās 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 āordinary magicā has won the 2024 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Psychology. Ann Masten, a professor in the University of Minnesotaās Institute of Child Development, earned the prize for […]
Scholar who measures Pentagonās 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 āMissa Supratext,ā a nontraditional choral work for string quartet and girlsā chorus. Kronos Quartet, a group long known for nurturing musical innovation, and San Francisco Girlsā Chorus, […]