Sample Grants
Grant Title Award Date Grant Amount
 
Mind and Life Summer Research Institute and Research Grant Program on Science and Buddhism

R. Adam Engle, Chairman and Co-Founder
Mind and Life Institute (Louisville CO)

These grants support a series of Summer Research Institutes for cognitive/affective neuroscientists interested in exploring the intersection between Buddhist practice and science. The project also includes a research grant program for promising graduate students or post-doctoral researchers working at the intersection of contemplation and neuroscience.
 May 2004 $360,000
Research on the Nature of Belief and its Effect on our Consciousness

Professor Baroness Susan Greenfield
Director, Royal Institution of Great Britain
Director, Oxford Centre for Science of the Mind [OXCSOM]
Oxford University (Oxford UK)

The Oxford Centre for Science of the Mind [OXCSOM] is a new multidisciplinary initiative at the University of Oxford to investigate whether science can elucidate the nature of belief and its effects on human consciousness. OXCSOM will draw on expertise in the fields of neuroscience, psychology, neurosurgery, philosophy, and theology to explore the physiological basis of beliefs and how belief systems affect states of consciousness in the physical brain.
 January 2005 $1,980,000
Science, Consciousness and Ultimate Reality: Exploration of the Interface Between Science, Religion, and Consciousness

David Lorimer, Director
Scientific and Medical Network (Fife Scotland)

This grant supported a project to stimulate academic and public interest in consciousness from scientific, philosophical, and religious perspectives. Speakers and participants also considered the nature of spiritual experience and interdisciplinary issues arising from consciousness studies. The project included public dialogues, academic seminars, a public conference, and an edited volume entitled Science, Consciousness and Ultimate Reality.
 March 2001 $134,498
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
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