Grawemeyer Award

The Grawemeyer Awards, presented each year by the University of Louisville in the state of Kentucky, United States, are among the world's most prestigious prizes presented to individuals in the fields of education, ideas improving world order, music composition, religion, and psychology. The religion award is presented jointly by the University of Louisville and the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary. The initial awards were for $150,000 each, making them among the most lucrative in their respective fields. The Grawemeyer Awards increased to $200,000 each beginning in the year 2000. Since 1985, more than $14 million has been awarded.

The first award, Music Composition, was presented in 1985. The award for Ideas Improving World Order was added in 1988 and Education in 1989. In 1990, a fourth award, Religion, was added as a joint prize with the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary. Psychology was added in 2000; the first award was given in 2001.

Notable winners include former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev (world order); Academy Award-winning composer Tan Dun (music composition); German theologian Jürgen Moltmann (religion); Aaron Beck, considered the founder of cognitive therapy (psychology); and former Andrew W. Mellon Foundation President William G. Bowen and former Harvard University President Derek Bok (education).

H. Charles Grawemeyer, industrialist, entrepreneur, astute investor and philanthropist, created the awards at the University of Louisville in 1984. An initial endowment of $9 million from the Grawemeyer Foundation funded the awards, which have drawn thousands of nominations from around the world.

Although the University of Louisville graduate was a chemical engineer by schooling, Grawemeyer cherished the liberal arts and chose to honor powerful ideas in five fields in performing arts, the humanities, and the social sciences.

Grawemeyer distinguished the awards by honoring ideas rather than life-long or publicized personal achievement. He also insisted that the selection process for each of the five awards--though dominated by professionals-include one step involving a lay committee knowledgeable in each field. As Grawemeyer saw it, great ideas should be understandable to someone with general knowledge and not be the private treasure of academics.

Recipients

Education

* 1989: Bertrand Schwartz
* 1990: Howard Gardner
* 1991: Kieran Egan
* 1992: Carol Gilligan
* 1993: Roland Tharp and Ronald Gallimore
* 1994: John T. Bruer
* 1995: Shirley Brice Heath and Milbrey W. McLaughlin
* 1996: Victoria Purcell-Gates
* 1997: Mike Rose
* 1998: L. Scott Miller
* 1999: "Not awarded"
* 2000: Vanessa Siddle Walker
* 2001: William G. Bowen and Derek Bok
* 2002: Martha Nussbaum
* 2003: Deborah Brandt
* 2004: "Not awarded"
* 2005: Elliot W. Eisner
* 2006: Lee Shulman
* 2007: Walter S Gilliam. Edward F. Zigler, and Stephanie M. Jones

Improving world order

* 1988: Richard Neustadt and Ernest May
* 1989: Robert Keohane
* 1990: Robert Jervis
* 1991: The United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development
* 1992: Samuel Huntington; Herman Daly and John Cobb
* 1993: Donald Harman Akenson
* 1994: Mikhail Gorbachev
* 1995: Gareth Evans
* 1996: Max Singer and Aaron Wildavsky
* 1997: Herbert Kelman
* 1998: "Not awarded"
* 1999: "Not awarded"
* 2000: Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink
* 2001: Janine Wedel
* 2002: "Not awarded"
* 2003: Stuart Kaufman
* 2004: John Braithwaite and Peter Drahos
* 2005: Francis Deng and Roberta Cohen
* 2006: Fiona Terry
* 2007: Roland Paris

Music composition

* 1985: Witold Lutosławski
* 1986: György Ligeti
* 1987: Harrison Birtwistle
* 1988: "Not awarded"
* 1989: Chinary Ung
* 1990: Joan Tower
* 1991: John Corigliano
* 1992: Krzysztof Penderecki
* 1993: Karel Husa
* 1994: Tōru Takemitsu
* 1995: John Adams
* 1996: Ivan Tcherepnin
* 1997: Simon Bainbridge
* 1998: Tan Dun
* 1999: "Not awarded"
* 2000: Thomas Adès
* 2001: Pierre Boulez
* 2002: Aaron Jay Kernis
* 2003: Kaija Saariaho
* 2004: Unsuk Chin
* 2005: George Tsontakis
* 2006: György Kurtág
* 2007: Sebastian Currier
* 2008: Peter Lieberson

Psychology

* 2001: Michael Posner, Marcus Raichle and Steven Petersen
* 2002: James McClelland and David Rumelhart
* 2003: Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky
* 2004: Aaron Beck
* 2005: Elizabeth Loftus
* 2006: John O'Keefe and Lynn Nadel
* 2007: Giacomo Rizzolatti, Vittorio Gallesi and Leonardo Fogassi
* 2008: Albert Bandura

Religion

* 1990: E.P. Sanders
* 1991: John Hick
* 1992: Ralph Harper
* 1993: Elizabeth A. Johnson
* 1994: Stephen L. Carter
* 1995: Diana L. Eck
* 1996: "Not awarded"
* 1997: Larry L. Rasmussen
* 1998: Charles Marsh
* 1999: "Not awarded"
* 2000: Jürgen Moltmann
* 2001: James Kugel
* 2002: Miroslav Volf
* 2003: Mark Juergensmeyer
* 2004: Jonathan Sacks
* 2006: Marilynne Robinson
* 2007: Timothy Tyson
* 2008 Margaret A. Farley

ee also

*Grawemeyer Award (Music Composition)

External links

* [http://www.grawemeyer.org/ Grawemeyer Award official site]