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Music Composition

‘Nomaden’ Blends Sounds from Diverse Cultures
2019 Music Composition Recipient Joel Bons

Evolving Orchestral Texture Marks L’isola Della Citta’
2018 Music Composition Recipient Bent Sorensen

“Play” Explores Choice and Chance, Free Will and Control
2017 Music Composition Recipient Andrew Norman

Adding Emotional Depth and Nuance to Limited Words
2016 Music Composition Recipient Hans Abrahamsen

Music has the Power to Make our Lives Better
2014 Music Composition Recipient Djuro Zivkovic

An Innovative Fusion of Musical and Visual Art
2013 Music Composition Recipient Michel van der Aa

Eclectic Influences and Distinct Personality
2012 Music Composition Recipient Esa-Pekka Salonen

Multimedia Opera Drawn from Dante
2011 Music Composition Recipient Louis Andriessen

Inspired by Music, Love
2010 Music Composition Recipient York Hoeller

Interview with Brett Dean
2009 Music Composition Recipient Brett Dean

Education

Paying for College and the American Dream
2018 Education Recipient Sara Goldrick-Rab

The Political Classroom
2017 Education Recipients Diana Hess and Paula McAvoy

Education can’t Trump Impoverished Beginnings
2016 Education Recipients Karl Alexander and Linda Olson

Let Teachers Learn from their Peers and Decide Things as a Team
2015 Education Recipients Andy Hargreaves and Michael Fullan

Improving Public Education by Addressing the Needs of Impoverished Children
2014 Education Recipient Diane Ravitch

Successful Public School Reform
2013 Education Recipient Pasi Sahlberg

Schooling Equality
2012 Education Recipient Linda Darling-Hammond

What Intelligence Tests Miss
2010 Education Recipient Keith Stanovich

Interview With Paul Attewell and David Lavin
2009 Education Recipients Paul Attewell and David Lavin

World Order

A Tool for Gauging Progress in Social and Economic Rights
2019 Ideas Improving World Order Recipients Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Terra Lawson-Remer, and Susan Randolph

Patterns and Circumstances that can lead to Genocide
2018 Ideas Improving World Order Recipient Scott Straus

Schools for Conflict or for Peace in Afghanistan
2017 Ideas Improving World Order Recipient Dana Burde

The Plague of Hidden, Everyday Violence Inflicted on the Poor
2016 Ideas Improving World Order Recipients Gary Haugen and Victor Boutros

Understanding Clan-Based Cultures
2015 World Order Recipient Mark S. Weiner

An Original Take on Nuclear Proliferation
2014 World Order Recipient Jacques Hymans

Non-Violence is More Effective than Violence in Bringing about Change
2013 World Order Recipients Erica Chenoweth and Maria Stephan

What Went Wrong in the Congo
2012 World Order Recipient Severine Autesserre

Ending the Problem of Modern-Day Slavery
2011 World Order Recipient Kevin Bales

The Key to Achieving Lasting Peace in the Middle East
2010 World Order Recipient Trita Parsi

Interview with Michael Johnston
2009 World Order Recipient Michael Johnston

Psychology

How ‘Wanting’ Drugs Persists Even When an Addict no Longer ‘Likes’ a Drug
2019 Psychology Recipients Kent Berridge and Terry Robinson

The Many Types of Intelligence and How They Contribute to Success
2018 Psychology Recipient Robert Sternberg

Dialectical Behavior Therapy
2017 Psychology Recipient Marsha Linehan

Strength through Adversity: Connecting Resilience, Control
2016 Psychology Recipient Steven Maier

The Link Between Emotion and Memory
James McGaugh

The Role of Emotions in Decision-Making
2014 Psychology Recipient Antonio Damasio

The Basis of Schizophrenia and How to Classify Mental Disorders
2013 Psychology Recipient Irving Gottesman

The “What and Where” of How the Brain Works
2012 Psychology Recipients Leslie Ungerleider and Mortimer Mishkin

Good Things Come to Those Who Wait
2011 Psychology Recipient Walter Mischel

Gate Control Theory of Pain
2010 Psychology Recipient Ronald Melzack

Interview with Anne Treisman
2009 Psychology Recipient Anne Treisman

Religion

The Demise of White Protestantism in America
2019 Religion Recipient Robert Jones

The New Abolition: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Black Social Gospel
2017 Religion Recipient Gary Dorrien

An Interdisciplinary Approach to Global Well-Being
2016 Religion Recipient Susan R. Holman

How Christianity has Contributed to Segregation and Racism in America
2015 Religion Recipient Willie James Jennings

How God Becomes Real for People
2014 Religion Recipient Tanya Luhrmann

Why a Growing Number of Muslim Women in the U.S. are Wearing Veils
2013 Religion Recipient Leila Ahmed

The Relationship between Black Politics and Religion
2012 Religion Recipient Barbara D. Savage

Recognizing the Ways Different Faiths are Alike
2010 Religion Recipient Eboo Patel

Interview with Donald Shriver Jr.
2009 Religion Recipient Donald Shriver Jr.

Spirit

The Power of Creative Ideas

Igniting Inspiration

Bettering the World