Interviews with the 2015 Grawemeyer Award Winners
Willie James Jennings, a Duke Divinity School theologian and Baptist minister, recently explained the concept that earned him the 2015 Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion. His award-winning 2010 book, “The Christian Imagination: Theology and the Origins of Race,” focuses how Christianity has contributed to segregation and racism in America. Watch the interview…
University of California-Irvine neurobiologist James McGaugh recently discussed how emotions play a key role in determining why we remember some things more vividly than others. His discovery, which earned the 2015 Grawemeyer Award in Psychology, is helping scientists better understand and treat memory disorders. Watch the interview…
If modern democracies are to survive, they must understand clan-based cultures. So says Mark S. Weiner, a Rutgers University law professor who received the 2015 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order for his book “The Rule of the Clan.” He explained in a recent interview at UofL why each group needs to understand the other’s legal and political traditions. Watch the interview
Respect teachers, let them learn from their peers and allow them to decide things as a team. That’s the best way to improve teaching, Toronto school-reform experts Andy Hargreaves and Michael Fullan argue in their book “Professional Capital: Transforming Teaching in Every School.” In a recent interview at the University of Louisville, the pair explained the concept that earned them UofL’s 2015 Grawemeyer Award in Education. Watch the interview…
