An economist who found that integrating U.S. public schools in the 1970s and 1980s benefited students over time has won the 2022 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Education. Rucker Johnson, a University of California-Berkeley public policy professor specializing in education economics, received the prize for ideas set forth in āChildren of the Dream: Why […]
Psychologist Terrie Moffitt has won the 2022 Grawemeyer Award in Psychology for shedding new light on the nature of juvenile crime. Moffitt, a Duke University psychologist and Kingās College, London, social development professor, discovered two types of antisocial behavior in juveniles. One persists from early childhood to adulthood, is relatively rare and seen mostly in […]
Rutgers University scholar Mona Lena Krook has won the 2022 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order for exploring the nature of violence against women in politics and suggesting ways to prevent it. Krook, a political science professor who chairs Rutgersā doctoral program on women and politics, received the prize for ideas […]
Austrian composer Olga Neuwirth has won the 2022 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition for āOrlando,ā an opera based on a Virginia Woolf novel about a gender-switching poet whose adventures span more than three centuries. The opera, an unconventional piece embracing a vast range of musical styles from Tudor-era ballads to modern electronic […]
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 […]
It is with great sorrow that the Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition announces the death of British composer Simon Bainbridge.Ā He won the Award in 1997 for his work Ad Ora Incerta (At the Uncertain Hour), a four-movement song cycle for mezzo soprano, bassoon solo, and orchestra, based on Holocaust-themed poems by Primo Levi.Ā Bainbridge […]
A Polish composer known for sending moral and political messages through his music, died on Sunday at his home in Krakow. He was 86. Krzysztof Penderecki won the Grawemeyer award in 1992 for his symphonic piece, āAdagio for Large Orchestra.ā Commissioned by Radio France and the French secretary of state for the 200th anniversary of […]
UofL and Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary announced 2020 winners of the $100,000 Grawemeyer Awards Dec. 2-6. Charles Grawemeyer, a UofL graduate and former seminary trustee, launched the awards program in 1984 to underscore the impact a single idea can have on the world. All of the 2020 award recipients will visit Louisville in April to […]
Due to COVID-19 the 2020 Grawemeyer events scheduled for the week of April 13 including the Banquet and Ceremony have been postponed. We hope to hold the events in the fall and once new dates have been decided an announcement will be made. If there are any questions, please email Charlie Leonard at charlie.leonard@louisville.edu