Congratulations to the five (5) 2025 Grawemeyer Award winners. The Grawemeyer Awards recognize highly constructive ideas with world changing potential and that’s 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 professor’s 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 […]
Describes movement to dismantle school-to-prison pipelineBy: Grawemeyer Awards, University of Louisville For researching and writing Willful Defiance: The Movement to Dismantle the School-to-Prison Pipeline, a book that describes and analyzes the building of the grassroots movement to end racially disproportionate school discipline policy and policing practices in schools across the U.S., University of Massachusetts Boston […]
London composer’s 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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]