Category: Event

2024 Grawemeyer Award Winners Announced

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 […]

2024 Religion Recipient – Rev. Charles Halton

Scholar focusing on God’s 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 God’s image as an all-loving being, but an Episcopal priest with a different view has received […]

2024 Education Recipients – Laura Hamilton and Kelly Nielsen

Scholars citing racial effects of university funding cuts win 2024 education prize By Denise Fitzpatrick How can the nation’s public universities do a better job educating students of color? Two University of California sociologists exploring that question are cowinners of the 2024 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Education for their ideas in “Broke: The […]

2024 Psychology Recipient – Ann Masten

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 “ordinary magic” has won the 2024 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Psychology. Ann Masten, a professor in the University of Minnesota’s Institute of Child Development, earned the prize for […]

2024 World Order Recipient – Neta Crawford

Scholar who measures Pentagon’s 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 […]

2024 Music Composition Recipient – Aleksandra Vrebalov

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 “Missa Supratext,” a nontraditional choral work for string quartet and girls’ chorus. Kronos Quartet, a group long known for nurturing musical innovation, and San Francisco Girls’ Chorus, […]

Grawemeyer Award winners to present their ideas April 9-11

The winners of the 2019 Grawemeyer Awards will soon head to Louisville to present their award-winning ideas. All presentations are free and open to the public. Here’s the schedule: April 9, 1 p.m. Fulfilling Social and Economic Rights, Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Terra Lawson-Remer and Susan Randolph Ideas Improving World Order Award recipients, Ekstrom Library, Chao Auditorium April 9, […]

2018 winner presentations will be in April

The 2018 winners of the Grawemeyer Award will be in Louisville in April to give free, public presentations about their award-winning ideas. Here’s the schedule: April 10 – Scott Straus, Ideas Improving World Order, Chao Auditorium in Ekstrom Library, 1 p.m. April 10 – Sara Goldrick-Rab, Education, Chao Auditorium in Ekstrom Library, 5 p.m. April […]

Breaking White Supremacy: The Black Social Gospel as New Abolitionism

The 2017 Grawemeyer Awards Lecture Series presents Breaking White Supremacy: The Black Social Gospel as New Abolitionism Gary Dorrien Winner of the 2017 Grawemeyer Award in Religion April 18, 2017, 7 p.m. Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Caldwell Chapel The Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s left a lasting impact on how our society […]

The Political Classroom: Evidence and Ethics in Democratic Education

The 2017 Grawemeyer Awards Lecture Series presents The Political Classroom: Evidence and Ethics in Democratic Education Diana Hess and Paula McAvoy Winners of the 2017 Grawemeyer Award for Education April 19, 2017, 5 p.m. Ekstrom Library, Chao Auditorium Authors Diana Hess and Paula McAvoy believe that teachers should encourage conversations about difficult political issues because […]