Tag Grawemeyer Award

March 1, 2013
in History, Middle East Studies, Religion, Social Science

Leila Ahmed and Women’s Voices in Islam

March 1, 2013
in History, Middle East Studies, Religion, Social Science

What does it mean for a Muslim woman to wear a veil? What is the role of women in Islam? What is the relationship between culture and faith? Leila Ahmed, an author and professor at Harvard Divinity School, investigates these topics most recently in A Quiet Revolution: The Veil’s Resurgence,

November 30, 2006
in Political Science, Social Science

Comer wins Grawemeyer Award in Education

November 30, 2006
in Political Science, Social Science

In a press release, the University of Louisville announced today that Dr. James Comer, Maurice Falk professor of child psychiatry at Yale University, has been named the winner of the 2007 Grawemeyer Award in Education for his work Leave No Child Behind: Preparing Today’s Youth for Tomorrow’s World (Yale University