Recently Approved Grants

	Public Engagement	Individual Freedom & Free Markets	Natural Sciences	Philosophy & Theology	Character Virtue Development

Project Title	Cultivating Genius Initiative	Cultures of Trust and Institutions of Freedom	Agency, Directionality, and Function: Foundations for a Science of Purpose	The Successes and Failures of Science through the Lens of Intellectual Humility: Perspectives from the History and Philosophy of Science	Testing the power of forecasting tournaments to foster judgmental accuracy, intellectual humility and open-mindedness in debates over human progress
Grantee(s)	World Science Foundation	The Research Institute of Industrial Economics	Regents of the University of Minnesota	University of Durham	Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania
Project Leader(s)	Tracy Day, Brian Greene	Niclas Berggren, Christian Bjørnskov	Alan Love	Nancy Cartwright, Robin Hendry	Philip Tetlock, Igor Grossman
Amount	$2,280,938	$867,803	$14,559,516	$212,774	$626,427

 

September Grant Features

Of Monuments and Men: Exploring the 11,500 year old world of Göbekli Tepe	Early-Career Astrophysicists and Social Scientists Will Have a Front-Row Seat for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s Groundbreaking Night Sky Survey	Searching for Cosmic Company: Astrophysicist Jennifer Wiseman on the human fascination with alien life	Why Mountains Make Us Weak in the Knees	Paul Davies on ‘What’s Eating the Universe?’

 

 

Grantees in the News

Article Title	Date	Publication	Grantee Mentioned
Are Childhood Dreams A Scam? Only If You Don’t Let Them Go	September 30,2021	Yahoo!Finance	Scott Barry Kaufman, Cognitive Psychologist, Founder of the Center for the Science of Human Potential
How housing that mixes young and old can improve the lives of both	September 28, 2021	Seattle Times	Marc Freedman, CEO of Encore.org
Death, Physics and Wishful Thinking	September 27, 2021	Scientific American	Leonard Susskind, Physicist, Stanford University
The 15 Best Meditation Podcasts of 2021	September 24, 2021	Healthline	Krista Tippett, Host and Executive Producer of ‘On Being’
Liberty Medal shines a needed light on embattled dissidents abroad, as U.S influence wanes | Trudy Rubin	September 16, 2021	The Philadelphia Inquirer	Jeffrey Rosen, President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Constitution Center

 

Research Publications

Article Title	Date	Publication	Related Project Title
Re-examining the role of family relationships in structuring perceived helping obligations, and their impact on moral evaluation	September 29, 2021	Journal of Experimental Social Psychology	Reasoning in moral thought and action
Toddlers draw broad negative inferences from wrongdoers’ moral violations	September 20, 2021	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America	Infants’ and Toddlers’ Evaluations of Moral Character
Evolution and dispersal of snakes across the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction	September 14, 2021	Nature Communications	Increasing Complexity: The First Rule of Evolution?
Increasing and decreasing interregional brain coupling increases and decreases oscillatory activity in the human brain	September 14, 2021	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America	The Science & Philosophy of Self Control
Elinor’s Ostrom’s ‘realist orientation’: An investigation of the ontological commitments of her analysis of the possibility of self-governance	September 1, 2021	Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization	The Ideal of Self Governance

 

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