2024 Grawemeyer Award Recipients and Public Talk Schedule
- The Rev. Charles Halton, an Episcopal priest in Lexington, Ky., who explained how embracing God as a being with human qualities can inspire us to become better people.
Public Talk: Tuesday, April 9; 7 pm; LPTS: Caldwell Chapel - Laura Hamilton and Kelly Nielsen, two University of California sociologists who co-won the education prize for exploring the racial consequences of funding cuts at public universities.
Public Talk: Wednesday, April 10; 10:30 am; UofL Planetarium - Ann Masten, a University of Minnesota child development scholar who won the psychology prize for finding that resilience comes from “ordinary magic” within us and our supportive connections with others.
Public Talk: Thursday, April 11; 12 pm; Strickler Auditorium - Neta Crawford, a University of Oxford international relations scholar who won the world order prize for analyzing the Pentagon’s carbon footprint and its effect on climate change.
Public Talk: Thursday, April 11; 1 pm; Chao Auditorium - Aleksandra Vrebalov, a Serbian-American composer who won the music prize for a chorale work transcending a single language, culture or religion to express how all life is interconnected.
Public Talk: Thursday, April 11; 3 pm; Bird Auditorium
About H. Charles Grawemeyer
H. Charles Grawemeyer, industrialist, entrepreneur, astute investor and philanthropist, created the Grawemeyer Awards at the University of Louisville in 1984. To a remarkable extent, he put his personal stamp on the awards, which surely are his shining legacy. They are devoted to the beauty of creativity and the power of great ideas to change the world.
About
The Grawemeyer Awards program at the University of Louisville pays tribute to the power of creative ideas, emphasizing the impact a single idea can have on the world. By creating these awards, Charles Grawemeyer found a way to inspire, honor and nurture achievements in music composition, education, religion, psychology and ideas improving world order.
News & Events
girls’ chorus created by Serbian-American composer
Aleksandra Vrebalov, has received the 2024 Grawemeyer
Award in Music Composition. The piece emphasizes
the universality of human expression through music,
bypassing a single language, style or tradition,
said Matthew Ertz, music award director.
CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE MILITARY
A University of Oxford scholar who discovered the U.S. military
is the world’s largest single institutional producer of
greenhouse gases has won the 2024 Grawemeyer Award
for Ideas Improving World Order. Neta Crawford received
the prize for the ideas in her 2022 book “The Pentagon,
Climate Change and War: Charting the Rise and Fall of Military Emissions.”
'ORDINARY MAGIC' MAKES US RESILIENT
A child psychologist who found human resilience depends on “ordinary magic” has won
the 2024 Grawemeyer Award in Psychology. Ann Masten of the University of Minnesota earned
the prize for explaining how our ability to overcome adversity comes from normal but
powerful processes within us and from our supportive connections with others.
UNDERFUNDED UNIVERSITIES AND RACE
Two University of California sociologists who learned that students of color
have been hit hardest by repeated cuts in government funding for public
universities have co-won the 2024 Grawemeyer Award in Education.
Laura Hamilton and Kelly Nielsen received the prize for ideas in their 2021
book “Broke: The Racial Consequences of Underfunding Public Universities.”
THE HUMAN SIDE OF GOD
An Episcopal priest who believes embracing God as a deity with human qualities
can inspire us to become better people has won the 2024 Grawemeyer Award
in Religion. The Rev. Charles Halton, associate rector of Christ Church Cathedral
in Lexington, Ky., received the prize for ideas in his 2021 book
“A Human-Shaped God: Theology of an Embodied God.”