Grawemeyer Awards

09/21/2026

With colleagues Barnett W. Berry and Michael Matsuda, 2015 Grawemeyer Education Award cowinner Michael Fullan recently published The Future of Public Education: One District's Journey to Transform Schools and Systems (Corwin, 2026).

09/09/2026

Neta C. Crawford, winner of the 2024 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order, recently published “The US Military’s Fatal Stance on Climate Change” in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

The Pentagon is preparing to wage war in a warmer world, even as it accelerates it

08/25/2026

Earlier this year, Boston Symphony Orchestra premiered Andrew Norman’s double piano concerto Split, a revision of his 2015 Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra. Norman won the Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition in 2017.

In Thursday’s (4/23) Classical Voice North America, Keith Powers writes, “Regular Boston Symphony Orchestra guest conductor Susanna Mälkki [returned] on April 16 for a world premiere of Andrew Norman’s double piano concerto Split, along with works by Ravel and Rachmaninoff.… Norman’s Spli...

08/21/2026

The revised website for the Grawemeyer Award in Psychology is now live.

Grawemeyer Award in PsychologyDepartment of Psychological & Brain SciencesUniversity of LouisvilleLouisville, KY 40292

08/17/2026

The new director of the Grawemeyer Award in Psychology is Yara Mekawi, an associate professor of psychological and brain sciences at the University of Louisville. A licensed clinical psychologist, she directs the Challenging Ongoing Legacies Of Racism (COLOR) lab. Dr. Mekawi’s research focuses on the science of racism and anti-racism.

08/10/2026

Thirty-four people have won the Grawemeyer Award in Religion since E. P. Sanders won first in 1990. The youngest living winner is Candida Moss, who won in 2026 for God's Ghostwriters: Enslaved Christians and the Making of the Bible (Little, Brown, 2024). Moss is the Edward Cadbury Professor of Theology in the Department of Theology and Religion at the University of Birmingham.

08/03/2026

Forty-four people have won the Grawemeyer Award in Education since Bertrand Schwartz won first in 1989. The youngest living winner is Kelly Nielsen, who won with Laura T. Hamilton in 2024 for Broke: The Racial Consequences of Underfunding Public Universities (University of Chicago Press, 2021). Nielsen is Director of the Center for Research + Evaluation at UC San Diego.

07/30/2026

Joshua W. Busby, winner of the 2026 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order, recently wrote “America’s EV Reckoning” for The Wire China. “China is miles ahead of most U.S. automakers,” write Busby. “Consumers are going to want to get their hands on what Chinese consumers already are enjoying.”

Xi Jinping’s zero-Covid policy sealed China off from the outside world for almost three years. Joshua Busby, a Biden-era climate advisor to the Pentagon and professor at the University of Texas at Austin, recently returned from the second of two post-pandemic tours of Chinese electric vehicle fact...

07/23/2026

The New York Review recently published “The Grain of the Note” by Philip Clark, a review of four albums by Australian composer Liza Lim, winner of the 2026 Grawemeyer Award in Music Composition:

The carnyx is an ancient bronze trumpet, once used by Iron Age warriors who relied on its otherworldly blood-curdling cry to fill their opponents with the

07/13/2026

Earlier this year, neurobiologist James McGaugh, winner of the 2015 Grawemeyer Award in Psychology, reflected on his early years at UC Irvine, which is celebrating its 60th anniversary: https://news.uci.edu/2026/05/18/building-uc-irvine/.