Recently Approved Grants

Human Sciences

Project Title	Grantee(s)	Project Leader(s)	Grant Amount
Modeling Religious Change	Old Dominion University Research Foundation	Saikou Diallo; Wesley Wildman	$3,998,981
Advancing Interprofessional Spiritual Care in Clinical Settings	George Washington University	Christina Puchalski; George Fitchett	$233,687
Purpose, Legacy, and Love: The Enduring Power of Connecting the Generations	Civic Ventures	Marc Freedman; Eunice Lin Nichols	$4,500,000

 

Natural Sciences

Project Title	Grantee(s)	Project Leader(s)	Grant Amount
Visual Signs as Cognitive Tools: Phylogeny and Ontogeny	Leiden University	Larissa Mendoza Straffon	$205,957
Planning Grant for ‘Supporting Structures: Innovative Partnerships to Develop the Future of Bench Science at Christian Liberal Arts Institutions’	CCCU-UK	Stan Rosenberg	$234,797

 

Philosophy and Theology

Project Title	Grantee(s)	Project Leader(s)	Grant Amount
William Whitney- ACT Fellowship Application	Azusa Pacific University	William Whitney	$219,915
A New Philosophy of Symmetry: Gauge, Composition, and Empirical Content	University of Notre Dame	Nicholas Teh; James Read	$230,503
Humility in Inquiry: Foundations and New Directions	Fordham University	Nathan Ballantyne; Norbert Schwarz	$3,412,760
Evolution, ethics, and human origins: A deep-time perspective on human morality	St Louis University	Helen De Cruz; Johan De Smedt	$61,319
The Muslim Worldview, creating tools for spiritual development and renewal in the secular age	The Oasis Initiative Foundation	Faisal Ghias; Sana Syed	$232,800

 

Public Engagement

Project Title	Grantee(s)	Project Leader(s)	Grant Amount
Science for Nuns and Monks: Independent Documentary	University of California Santa Barbara	Kum-Kum Bhavnani	$234,735
Fifth International Vatican Conference – Exploring the Mind, Body and Soul	Cura Foundation	Tomasz Trafny; Robin L. Smith	$750,000
Expanding the Dialogue: Reaching a New Generation of University Audiences with Science and the Big Questions	Veritas Forum Inc.	Andrew Schuman	$2,482,512

 

Character Virtue Development

Project Title	Grantee(s)	Project Leader(s)	Grant Amount
Development of an Intensive Measurement Instrument for Measuring Adolescent Youth Purpose and Related Virtues in High School Students	American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences	Juliette Berg	$234,800
The Character and Virtue Development in Youth Ministry (CVDYM) Project	Fuller Theological Seminary	Kara Powell; Tyler Greenway	$1,394,471
Mental Healthcare, Virtue, and Human Flourishing	Trustees of Boston University	Steven Sandage; Jesse Owen	$2,023,012

 

Individual Freedom & Free Markets

Project Title	Grantee(s)	Project Leader(s)	Grant Amount
Constitutional Ambassadors	National Constitution Center	Jeffrey Rosen; Kerry Sautner	$2,500,000

 

Recently Featured Grants

Bringing the EES to the Classroom

The CHOP Center to Promote Adolescent Health, Character, and Well Being: A Research, Translation, and Dissemination Initiative

Greater Good in Education: GGSC Toolkit for Teachers

Q&A: Five Questions with Matt Warner

 

Grantees in the News

Article Title	Date	Publication	Related Project Title
Guest opinion: Healthy religion is good for American families	February 29, 2020	DeseretNews	Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project Phase V
Speakers for 2020 ‘Expanding Empathy’ lecture series announced	February 26, 2020	Penn State News	Nudging Empathy: Harnessing Motivation to Create Sustainable Empathic Choices
Çatalhöyük — Ancient Land Of Peace And Egalitarianism	February 22, 2020	Medium	Consciousness and creativity in the Neolithic at Çatalhöyük, Turkey
Middle-Aged Americans Are Getting Squeezed	February 20, 2020	The National Interest	The Pathways to Character Project
How the ‘Gratitude Effect’ Can Reshape Your Life and Its Direction	February 14, 2020	Entrepreneur	Expanding the Science and Practice of Gratitude Phase Two
New Research Finds That Character Counts In College Admission	February 13, 2020	Forbes	Building Virtues through College Admissions: Developing Effective, Authentic Assessments that Positively Motivate Student Behavior
Two $900K grants will allow physicists to test for electron electric dipole moment	February 5, 2020	Education News Canada	Small-Scale Fundamental Physics Block Grant
Just a Couple of Science Funders Trying to Unravel the Mysteries of the Universe	February 3, 2020	Inside Philanthropy	The Black Hole Initiative: Towards a Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Competing Renewal

 

Research Publications

Article Title	Date	Publication	Related Project Title
Facilitating open-science with realistic fMRI simulation: validation and application	February 19, 2020	PeerJ	Toward a Scientific Understanding of the Human Capacity for Cognitive Control
Historical comparison of gender inequality in scientific careers across countries and disciplines	February 18, 2020	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences	Using Big Data to Quantify and Cultivate Genius
Do readiness potentials happen all the time?	February 1, 2020	NeuroImage	Consciousness and Free Will: A Joint Neuroscientific-Philosophical Investigation
The role of Hope in subsequent health and well-being for older adults: An outcome-wide longitudinal approach	February 1, 2020	Global Epidemiology	Religion and human flourishing – new empirical approaches
Confabulation, Rationalisation and Morality	February 1, 2020	Topoi	Hope and Optimism: Conceptual and Empirical Investigations
Epigenetic transgenerational inheritance of parent-of-origin allelic transmission of outcross pathology and sperm epimutations	February 1, 2020	Developmental Biology	Epigenetic Diagnostics for Preventative Medicine
Distinguishing cognitive effort and working memory load using scale-invariance and alpha suppression in EEG	February 1, 2020	NeuroImage	Developing the Chicago Center for Practical Wisdom
Livestock faecal indicators for animal management, penning, foddering and dung use in early agricultural built environments in the Konya Plain, Central Anatolia	February 1, 2020	Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences	Consciousness and creativity at the dawn of settled life: the test-case of Çatalhöyük