A North Carolina scholar has earned the 2007 Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion for his memoir analyzing the social and spiritual effects of a racially motivated murder in his hometown. In his 2004 book, âBlood Done Sign My Name,â Timothy Tyson tells the story of the killing of a young black man, Henry Marrow, by […]
The old saying âmonkey see, monkey doâ also applies to human behavior, say a trio of Italian scientists who have earned the 2007 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Psychology. Researchers Giacomo Rizzolatti, Vittorio Gallese and Leonardo Fogassi have identified a âmirror neuronâ system of brain cells in monkeys that also exists in humans. The […]
The alliance of nations trying to keep Afghanistan from reverting to a haven for terrorists needs to âgo big or get outâ if it is serious about solving the problem. So says Roland Paris, associate professor of public and international affairs at University of Ottawa and winner of the 2007 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award […]
âStatic,â a chamber music work by American composer Sebastian Currier, has earned the 2007 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition. The name of the six-movement piece for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano reflects âdifferent meanings of the word âstatic,â which can be a state of quiet balance or the erratic noise between […]
âGilead,â a book by Marilynne Robinson that earned this yearâs 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, also has claimed the 2006 Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion. It is the first time a novel has won the Grawemeyer religion prize, which is given jointly by Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary and the University of Louisville. Described as âprofoundly […]
How do people know where they are and how they got there? Two scientists who have helped identify the brainâs mapping system earned the 2006 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Psychology. John OâKeefe and Lynn Nadel, who explained their theory in a 1978 book, âThe Hippocampus as a Cognitive Mapâ and in later journal […]
Aid agencies need to think things through when they give help, or they can end up worsening the problems they hoped to fix. That warning, delivered by Fiona Terry, director of research for the French section of the international agency Doctors Without Borders, has won the University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World […]
A concerto by Hungarian composer György KurtĂĄg described as ranging through âmany changes of mood, tempo and textureâ has earned the 2006 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition. The work, âConcertante Op. 42â for violin, viola and orchestra, was commissioned by the Leonie Sonning Foundation of Copenhagen. Since its premiere in September 2003 […]
The 2005 Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion has been given to University of Notre Dame professor George M. Marsden for his masterful biography of colonial preacher and theologian Jonathan Edwards, entitled âJonathan Edwards: A Lifeâ(Yale University Press, 2003). Edwards was considered by many to be the first great American religious thinker during the pivotal period […]
A psychologist noted for her study of human memory and how it can be altered has won the 2005 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Psychology. The fifth awarding of the $200,000 prize for outstanding ideas in the field of psychology is to Elizabeth Loftus, whose research on false recollections and the reliability of eyewitness […]