Sample Grants
Grant Title Award Date Grant Amount
 
Templeton Royal Society Lectures on the Nature of Human Knowledge and Understanding

The Royal Society (London UK)

These grants support a lecture series curated and organized by the Royal Society on the nature of human knowledge and understanding.
 June 2004 $281,885
A Three Volume Set of Biographies on Eminent Lives in Twentieth-Century Science and Religion

Professor Nicolaas A. Rupke, Director
Institute for the History of Science
George August University (Goettingen Germany)

This grant supports an international collaborative effort to research and edit a three-volume series entitled Eminent Lives in Twentieth Century Science and Religion. The three volumes will explore the interactions of the religious beliefs of 36 scientists. The project also involves teaching initiatives and conferences.
 November 2001 $198,956
AAAS Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion: Promoting a Public Conversation

Dr. Connie Bertka, Program Director
Dialogue on Science, Ethics, & Religion [DoSER]

This initiative engages the public on a range of questions in science and religion, including evolution, cosmology, astrobiology and human evolution. The DoSER program contributes to the level of scientific understanding in religious communities, and promotes multidisciplinary education and scholarship on the ethical and religious implications of advancements in science and technology.
 January 2001 $3,293,929
Astrophysics Research and the Dialogue Between Science and Religion

Rev. Dr. George V. Coyne, SJ, Director
Vatican Observatory (Tucson AZ)

Professor Chris Impey, Director, Graduate Program,
Department of Astronomy
University of Arizona (Tucson AZ)

This grant supported a symposium aimed at assuring that the dialogue between science and religion, which the Vatican Observatory conducts among established scholars, also finds a place in the work and lives of emerging scholars. Subsequent publications include journal articles, as well as edited volumes of research results by young scientists in the interdisciplinary area of science and religion.
 August 2001 $42,200
Conference on Einstein, God and Time

Rev. Dr. Michael W.S. Parsons, Theology Faculty
Ian Ramsey Centre
Oxford University (Oxford UK)

This grant supported an interdisciplinary conference to explore the meaning of time in physics and theology. The conference marked the publication centenary of Albert Einstein's papers on the photoelectric effect, the special theory of relativity, and statistical mechanics.
 June 2005 $30,291
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