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 Godās 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 worldās democracies, says a scholar who today was named winner of the 2023 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Ideas […]
Julian Andersonās āLitaniesā wins 2023 music prize By Denise Fitzpatrick The Notre Dame Cathedral fire and the death of an esteemed colleague influenced the creation of āLitanies,ā said Julian Anderson, a British composer named today as winner of the 2023 Grawemeyer Award in Music Composition for the work. āNotre 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.Ā Robert Jervis,Ā Ā 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 […]
The Grawemeyer Award for Education announces with sorrow the passing of Mike Rose, winner of the 1997 Award for his book āPossible Lives: The Promise of Public Education in America,ā Mike Rose focuses on the positive things going on in these classrooms and, through them, offers hope for the future of public education. āPossible Livesā […]
The Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition announces with sorrow the passing of Louis Andriessen, winner of the 2011 Award for his large scale opera, La Commedia, based on texts by Dante, in 2011.Ā Maestro Andriessen spent about a week on campus where, among other activities, he gave lessons to University of Louisville composition students, as […]