A religious scholar who explained how one of Christianity’s earliest creeds still applies to contemporary life has earned the 2020 Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion. Stephen J. Patterson, a professor of religious and ethical studies at Willamette University, won the award for ideas he set forth in “The Forgotten Creed: Christianity’s Original Struggle against Bigotry, […]
How can American high schools move away from rote learning and testing and help students become critical thinkers ready to take on the challenges of modern life? Educators Jal Mehta and Sarah Fine, who spent six years researching the issue at 30 U.S. high schools, have co-won the 2020 Grawemeyer Award in Education for ideas […]
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A behavioral geneticist who found that DNA is the primary force shaping our personalities has won the 2020 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Psychology. Robert Plomin, research professor at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London, developed his prize-winning idea based on 45 years of psychological studies in the United […]
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The United Nations can tackle global environmental challenges far more effectively by incorporating two overlooked parts of its mandate—human rights and peace—into its efforts. So says Ken Conca, an American University international relations professor who has won the 2020 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order for the ideas set forth his […]
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Climate change-inspired piece wins music award Chinese-American composer Lei Liang, an orchestral work evoking the threat posed by climate change and the opportunity it offers for redemption. Boston Modern Orchestra Project commissioned the winning piece, “A Thousand Mountains, a Million Streams,” which premiered in 2018 in Boston’s Jordan Hall with Gil Rose conducting. “The world […]
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The University of Louisville and Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary will announce 2020 winners of five Grawemeyer Awards in early December. UofL presents the annual, $100,000 prizes for innovative ideas and works in music composition, world order, psychology and education and gives a religion prize jointly with the seminary. Award recipients will be named at 10 a.m. […]
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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, […]
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Analysis of creed advocating solidarity wins religion award
/in News/by Billye PottsA religious scholar who explained how one of Christianity’s earliest creeds still applies to contemporary life has earned the 2020 Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion. Stephen J. Patterson, a professor of religious and ethical studies at Willamette University, won the award for ideas he set forth in “The Forgotten Creed: Christianity’s Original Struggle against Bigotry, […]
Study of how to better U.S. high schools wins education award
/in News/by Billye PottsHow can American high schools move away from rote learning and testing and help students become critical thinkers ready to take on the challenges of modern life? Educators Jal Mehta and Sarah Fine, who spent six years researching the issue at 30 U.S. high schools, have co-won the 2020 Grawemeyer Award in Education for ideas […]
Genes make us who we are, says 2020 psychology winner
/in News/by Billye PottsA behavioral geneticist who found that DNA is the primary force shaping our personalities has won the 2020 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Psychology. Robert Plomin, research professor at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London, developed his prize-winning idea based on 45 years of psychological studies in the United […]
UN must rethink its approach to environmental problems, 2020 winner in World Order
/in News/by Billye PottsThe United Nations can tackle global environmental challenges far more effectively by incorporating two overlooked parts of its mandate—human rights and peace—into its efforts. So says Ken Conca, an American University international relations professor who has won the 2020 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order for the ideas set forth his […]
Climate change-inspired piece wins music award
/in News/by Billye PottsClimate change-inspired piece wins music award Chinese-American composer Lei Liang, an orchestral work evoking the threat posed by climate change and the opportunity it offers for redemption. Boston Modern Orchestra Project commissioned the winning piece, “A Thousand Mountains, a Million Streams,” which premiered in 2018 in Boston’s Jordan Hall with Gil Rose conducting. “The world […]
Grawemeyer Award 2020 winners to be named Dec. 2-6
/in News/by Billye PottsThe University of Louisville and Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary will announce 2020 winners of five Grawemeyer Awards in early December. UofL presents the annual, $100,000 prizes for innovative ideas and works in music composition, world order, psychology and education and gives a religion prize jointly with the seminary. Award recipients will be named at 10 a.m. […]
Grawemeyer Award winners to present their ideas April 9-11
/in Award Categories, Event, Music Composition, News, Psychology, Religion, World Order/by adminThe 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, […]
Book charting decline of white Christian America wins Grawemeyer religion award
/in News, Religion/by Jenna WilliamsTheory explaining addiction wins Grawemeyer psychology award
/in News, Psychology/by Jenna WilliamsHuman rights index wins Grawemeyer world order award
/in News, World Order/by Jenna Williams