Recently Approved Grants

Human Sciences

Project Title	Grantee(s)	Project Leader(s)	Grant Amount
Knoxville Marriage Initiative: Partnering with churches to deliver science-based interventions to solve a community problem	The University of Tennessee	Kristina Gordon	$234,800

 

Natural Sciences

Project Title	Grantee(s)	Project Leader(s)	Grant Amount
The creative role of stress in evolution and development	Yale University	Gunter Wagner; Alan Love	$886,152

 

Philosophy & Theology

Project Title	Grantee(s)	Project Leader(s)	Grant Amount
What Breathes Fire into the Equations: The Metaphysics of laws of nature	Rutgers University Foundation	Barry Loewer	$167,325
The Fine-tuning Argument: A Curated Bibliography	The University of Mississippi	Neil Manson	$69,230

 

Public Engagement

Project Title	Grantee(s)	Project Leader(s)	Grant Amount
Aeon Magazine – 24-month publishing program focussed on Science and the Big Questions	Aeon Media Group	Brigid Hains	$209,929

 

Character Virtue Development

Project Title	Grantee(s)	Project Leader(s)	Grant Amount
The Assessment of Character and Spiritual Formation: An Empirical, Longitudinal and Ecumenical Project with Seminary Students and Faculty	Biola University	David Wang; Peter Hill	$1,840,223
Intellectual Humility: Implications for Political and Religious Polarization	Emory University	Scott Lilienfeld	$233,319

 

Individual Freedom and Free Markets

Project Title	Grantee(s)	Project Leader(s)	Grant Amount
Individual Freedom, Free Markets, and Catholics	The Catholic University of America	Andreas Widmer	$234,025
Urban Entrepreneurship	University of New Orleans	Chris Surprenant	$1,797,969

 

Voluntary Family Planning

Project Title	Grantee(s)	Project Leader(s)	Grant Amount
Family Planning in Tanzania: From Obstacles to Opportunities	Cornell University	Jennifer Downs; David Downs	$758,483
The Impact of Church-Based Outreach on Family Planning in Burundi	World Relief Corporation of the National Association of Evangelicals	Deborah Dortzbach; Francois Niyitegeka	$749,606

 

Recently Featured Grants

Writers and Intellectuals Under Threat: Documenting Limits on Free Expression

How Do Brains Represent Beliefs About God?

 

Grantees in the News

Article Title	Date	Publication	Related Project Title
Forgiveness: An Important Aspect of Flourishing	June 27, 2019	Psychology Today	Advancing Health, Religion, and Spirituality Research from Public Health to End of Life
Looking Back to the Future	June 26, 2019	Harvard Medical School	The Ancient DNA Atlas of Humanity
More Evidence That Most Cancer Mutations Are Simply The Result Of Bad Luck	June 24, 2019	Forbes	Novel paradigm in cancer etiology, its relationship with aging, and novel methods for cancer early detection.
What Psychology Offers Christians Amid Political Polarization	June 24, 2019	Christianity Today	The Development, Validation, and Dissemination of Measures of Intellectual Humility and Humility
9,000 years ago, a community with modern urban problems	June 17, 2019	ScienceDaily	Consciousness and creativity in the Neolithic at Çatalhöyük, Turkey
Quantum supremacy and its efficient certification difficult to achieve simultaneously	June 5, 2019	Phys.org	Taming complexity: Compressed descriptions of the quantum world
Want Your Child to Be a High Achiever? This 47-Year Study Reveals 7 Things You Can Do	June 4, 2019	Thrive Global	Genesis of Genius and Unleashing Its Creative Force: A 40-year Longitudinal Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth
New mineral classification system captures Earth’s complex past	June 3, 2019	EuerkAlert!	Chance, Necessity, and the Origins of Life

 

Research Publications

Article Title	Date	Publication	Related Project Title
Sequential replay of nonspatial task states in the human hippocampus	June 28, 2019	Science	Toward a Scientific Understanding of the Human Capacity for Cognitive Control
Spiral Model of Phronesis Development: Social-emotional and character development in low-resourced urban schools	June 27, 2019	Journal of Moral Education	Enhancing Student Purpose with the Middle School Ambassador Program: A Collaborative Action-Research Study
Why Study Religion from a Latin American Sociological Perspective? An Introduction to Religions Issue, “Religion in Latin America, and among Latinos Abroad”	June 24, 2019	Religions	The transformation of lived religion in urban Latin America: a study of contemporary Latin Americans’ experience of the transcendent
The strength of compactness in Computability Theory and Nonstandard Analysis	June 17, 2019	Annals of Pure and Applied Logic	Philosophical frontiers in Reverse Mathematics
Lonely Joy: How Families with Nonverbal Children with Disabilities Communicate, Collaborate, and Resist in a World that Values Words	June 14, 2019	Journal of Pastoral Theology	Theology of Joy and the Good Life
Resolution of gauge ambiguities in ultrastrong-coupling cavity quantum electrodynamics	June 3, 2019	Nature Physics	Exploring ways to use temporal correlations in quantum mechanics.
Re-examining prominent measures of divergent and convergent creativity	June 1, 2019	Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences	Causality Perception as a Mechanism of Belief in God in the U.S. and Afghanistan