Apr 9 Local News Grawemeyer Award Recipients in Louisville This Week The latest Grawemeyer Award winners will be in Louisville this week to accept their prizes and give free public talks. The University of Louisville has handed out Grawemeyer Awards since 1985, when entrepreneur H. Charles Grawemeyer created the foundation to fund the awards. The awards are given for music composition, world order, psychology and education. […] By Devin Katayama Apr 9 Local News Grawemeyer Award Recipients in Louisville This Week Devin Katayama
Dec 26 Local News Officials Say 2012 Grawemeyer Puts Distance Between U of L and Mortenson University of Louisville officials say the choice for this year’s Grawemeyer Award in Education moves the award and the school beyond the controversy with this the previous winner. This year’s award was meant for Greg Mortenson, who wrote about his work building schools in Central Asia. Mortenson turned down the award, months after reports surfaced showing […] By Gabe Bullard Dec 26 Local News Officials Say 2012 Grawemeyer Puts Distance Between U of L and Mortenson Gabe Bullard
Dec 21 Local News Grawemeyer Award for Education Will Go to Stanford Professor Next year’s Grawemeyer Award for Education will go to a Stanford University professor who was at one point a candidate to be U.S. Secretary of Education. Linda Darling-Hammond will receive the award for her book “The Flat World and Education.” In it, she outlines the need to make education funding and access equal across all […] By Gabe Bullard Dec 21 Local News Grawemeyer Award for Education Will Go to Stanford Professor Gabe Bullard
Nov 29 Local News Neuroscientists Win 2012 Grawemeyer Award For Psychology Two neuroscientists from the National Institute of Mental Health are winners of the 2012 Grawemeyer Award for Psychology. Leslie Ungerleider and Mortimer Mishkin began working together in the 1970s. In 1982 the pair began publishing their research, which involved studying the brain’s reaction during visual exercises in primates. Further reports focused on circuits in the […] By Devin Katayama Nov 29 Local News Neuroscientists Win 2012 Grawemeyer Award For Psychology Devin Katayama
Nov 28 Arts and Culture Professor Wins Grawemeyer Award for Studies of Peacekeeping in the Congo A political science professor has won the University of Louisville’s 2012 Grawemeyer Award for World Order. Severine Autesserre is an assistant professor at Barnard College and Columbia University, and the author of “The Trouble with the Congo: Local Violence and the Failure of International Peacebuilding.” In her book, Autesserre examines the vast international resources that […] By Erica Peterson Nov 28 Arts and Culture Professor Wins Grawemeyer Award for Studies of Peacekeeping in the Congo Erica Peterson
Nov 27 Arts and Culture Finnish Composer Salonen’s Violin Concerto Wins Grawemeyer Award The 2012 Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition will go to Esa-Pekka Salonen’s “Violin Concerto.” The 30-minute piece debuted in 2009. It is at times somber and at times raucous and discordant. Salonen also believes it is the first time a modern drum set has been incorporated into a violin concerto. Award director Marc Satterwhite makes special […] By Gabe Bullard Nov 27 Arts and Culture Finnish Composer Salonen’s Violin Concerto Wins Grawemeyer Award Gabe Bullard
Sep 16 Local News Mortenson Declines Grawemeyer Award Amid allegations that he falsified parts of his best-selling books “Three Cups of Tea” and “Stones Into Schools,” author Greg Mortenson has turned down the University of Louisville’s Grawemeyer Award in Education. Discrepancies between reality and Mortenson’s written accounts of travels in Afghanistan and Pakistan were outlined in a 60 Minutes report in April. The report also […] By Gabe Bullard Sep 16 Local News Mortenson Declines Grawemeyer Award Gabe Bullard
Jun 6 Local News UGA Vacates Award for Mortenson The University of Georgia has vacated a prize that was supposed to be given to author Greg Mortenson. The decision means that this year’s Delta Prize for Global Understanding will not be awarded to anyone. Mortenson is facing accusations of fabricating stories in his best selling book, Three Cups of Tea, which has launched an investigation […] By Dalton Main Jun 6 Local News UGA Vacates Award for Mortenson Dalton Main
Apr 28 Local News More Inaccuracies Found in Mortenson’s Accounts New complaints have been raised against Greg Mortenson’s book “Three Cups of Tea”. Outside Online, the magazine which had previously published Mortenson’s self-defense interview, is now calling into question his climbing record in the Himalayas as well as the possibility that he accidentally wandered into the village Korphe on his way down from K-2. Mortenson’s book […] By Dalton Main Apr 28 Local News More Inaccuracies Found in Mortenson’s Accounts Dalton Main
Mar 14 State of Affairs What is Willpower? STATE OF AFFAIRS 3/14/11: Dr. Walter Mischel's groundbreaking study of and conclusions about willpower have been applied to everything from early education to weight loss to saving for retirement. His efforts won him the 2011 Grawemeyer Award for Psychology. This Monday Dr. Mischel joins us to talk about his work, his discoveries, and what he learned from toddlers and marshmallows. Listen to the Show By Laura Ellis Mar 14 State of Affairs What is Willpower? Laura Ellis
Dec 3 Arts and Culture Biblical Scholar Receives Grawemeyer Religion Award Johnson says he found that the Christians, Jews and pagans of ancient Greece and Rome shared certain ways of being religious, regardless of their differences in doctrine. By Rick Howlett Dec 3 Arts and Culture Biblical Scholar Receives Grawemeyer Religion Award Rick Howlett
Dec 1 Arts and Culture Columbia’s Mischel Recieves Psychology Grawemeyer Mischel designed what's come to be called "the marshmallow test," in which preschool children learned to resist an immediate treat of a single marshmallow for the promise of a larger treat later. By Rick Howlett Dec 1 Arts and Culture Columbia’s Mischel Recieves Psychology Grawemeyer Rick Howlett
Dec 4 Arts and Culture Grawemeyer Recipient Champions Interfaith Work Today, the University of Louisville announced that an American Muslim of Indian heritage is the recipient of the 2010 Grawemeyer Award in Religion. WFPL’s Elizabeth Kramer reports. Eboo Patel has focused his career onworking with young people to encourage religious cooperation. In 1991, he founded Interfaith Youth Core, an international nonprofit promoting interfaith work. And […] By Elizabeth Kramer Dec 4 Arts and Culture Grawemeyer Recipient Champions Interfaith Work Elizabeth Kramer
Dec 3 Arts and Culture Grawemeyer Award Recipient Says IQ Tests Don't Measure Rational Thought Today, the University of Louisville has announced the recipient of the 2010 Grawemeyer Award for education. WFPL’s Elizabeth Kramer reports. In an era when standardized tests are highly regarded, one cognitive psychologist points out that they don’t measure rational thinking. Keith Stanovich is that psychologist and he gets the award for his 2009 book What […] By Elizabeth Kramer Dec 3 Arts and Culture Grawemeyer Award Recipient Says IQ Tests Don't Measure Rational Thought Elizabeth Kramer
Dec 2 Arts and Culture Trailblazer in Study of Pain Gets Grawemeyer Today, the University of Louisville has announced the recipient of the 2010 Grawemeyer Award for psychology. WFPL’s Elizabeth Kramer reports. People often say pain is all in your head — and Ronald Melzack has spent his career researching just how true that is and how pain works. Melzack is a professor at Montreal’s McGill University […] By Elizabeth Kramer Dec 2 Arts and Culture Trailblazer in Study of Pain Gets Grawemeyer Elizabeth Kramer