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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, […]

Library of Congress Acquires Music Manuscripts and Papers of Composer John Adams

Adams is known for works including the opera “Nixon in China” and concert pieces such as “Shaker Loops,” “Harmonielehre,” “Road Movies,” and more. By: Chloe Rabinowitz Jun. 14, 2023 The Library of Congress has acquired the music manuscripts and papers of contemporary American composer, conductor and writer John Adams. Adams is known for works including the opera […]

Kaija Saariaho, pioneering composer hailed as one of the 21st century’s greats, dies at 70

The Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition notes with sadness the death of Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, 70.  She won the Award in 2003 for her opera, “L`amour de loin,” (Love From Afar).  (http://grawemeyer.org/2003-kaija-saariaho/). The opera continues to be performed all over the world and was featured in the Metropolitan Opera Live HD Broadcast series in […]

Jennings will be first African American to give Oxford’s Bampton Lectures

Yale Divinity School Professor Willie James Jennings will give Oxford University’s Bampton Lectures for 2023—the first African American tapped for the 243-year-old lecture series and one of the few Americans ever to earn the distinction. Jennings, Associate Professor of Systematic Theology and Africana Studies, will give the lectures at Oxford’s University Church on May 23 […]

Berkeley political scientist Scott Straus named to prestigious fellowship

Scott Straus, a UC Berkeley political scientist known for his study of political violence and genocide, has been named the Mahatma M.K. Gandhi Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (AAPSS). Straus is one of six U.S. fellows honored this year, the Academy announced, “in recognition of their contributions to social science and the extent […]