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Human Sciences

Project Title Grantee(s) Project Leader(s) Grant Amount
University of Bristol Jean Golding; Kate Northstone $234,800
Scholarship for International Faculty/Students to Attend Spirituality & Health Research Workshop Duke University Harold Koenig; Benjamin Doolittle $115,411

 

Natural Sciences

Project Title Grantee(s) Project Leader(s) Grant Amount
Wesleyan University Joseph Rouse $233,297

 

Philosophy and Theology

Project Title Grantee(s) Project Leader(s) Grant Amount
Panentheism and Religious Life The Johns Hopkins University Yitzhak Melamed; Clare Carlisle $232,748
SCP Graduate Fellowships for Science Cross-Training Round 4 Society of Christian Philosophers Kevin Timpe; Christian Miller $234,045

 

Public Engagement

Project Title Grantee(s) Project Leader(s) Grant Amount
Conflict as an Opportunity for Cultivating Virtue: Expanding and Deepening The Colossian Way The Colossian Forum Michael Gulker; Rob Barrett $1,000,298
Synergos Spiritual Civilization Group Synergos Institute Melissa Durda; Marilia Bezerra $232,553
S&BQ: The Science and the Big Questions Aggregator Website Science Sites Inc. Marc Kaufman; Heather Wax $225,400
CLAL — The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership Geoffrey Mitelman $234,799
Planning Grant: Magis Center Faith and Reason Digital Campaign Magis Institute Robert Spitzer; Joseph Miller $229,000
Closer to Truth: Philosophy of Biology The Kuhn Foundation Robert Kuhn; Peter Getzels $1,323,350

 

Character Virtue Development

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Celebration Britain University of Birmingham James Arthur $6,559,254
New Measures for the Experimental Study of Autonomous Prosocial Motivation Regents of The University of California at San Diego Michael McCullough; Eric Pedersen $234,800
Curiosity and Classrooms: An exploration of curiosity and the development of intellectual virtues in schools Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia Jamie Jirout; Virginia Vitiello $799,935
Virtues and Vocations: Developing sustainable, scalable, sector-specific programmes for postgraduate character virtue formation Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford Nigel Biggar; Edward Brooks $2,550,984

 

Individual Freedom & Free Markets

Project Title Grantee(s) Project Leader(s) Grant Amount
Documentary Series on Free Speech and Expression Free to Choose Network Robert Chatfield; Tom Skinner $1,500,000
Invigorating the Discourse: Challenges to the Future of Classical Liberal Thought Institute for Humane Studies Jonathan Fortier; Emily Birchmier $2,250,088

 

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Five Steps to Opening Minds
A Browsable, Theological Treasure-Chest
Beyond the First Glimpse: Extending Harvard’s Black Hole Initiative
Nudging Empathy: Harnessing Motivation to Create Sustainable Empathic Choices
Christianity and Social Change in Contemporary Africa
SelfBound: The Making of Human Consciousness
The Development of Forgiveness

 

Grantees in the News

Article Title Date Publication Related Project Title
How many stars eventually collide as black holes? The universe has a budget for that. January 31, 2020 Vanderbilt University The Black Hole Initiative: Towards a Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Competing Renewal
Improving the manipulation of microparticles by sound January 24, 2020 Phys.org Exploring ways to use temporal correlations in quantum mechanics.
Nature study: First ancient DNA from West Africa illuminates the deep human past January 22, 2020 EurekAlert! The Ancient DNA Atlas of Humanity
Potential way to halt blinding macular degeneration identified January 22, 2020 EurekAlert! Parallel Genomics: Functional cartography of extrachromosomal DNA
Templeton, Moore Foundations Award Black Hole Initiative $7.2 Million January 21, 2020 Philanthropy News Digest The Black Hole Initiative: Towards a Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Competing Renewal
Worried About Staff Stress And Burnout? Six Ways Nonprofit Leaders Can Promote Resilience At Work January 10, 2020 Forbes Earth as a School: Finding Meaning, Relating to God, and Experiencing Growth After a Natural Disaster
How Negativity Can Kill a Relationship January 9, 2020 The Atlantic A book on the power of positive thinking to overcome negativity bias
The Birds and the Bats: Evolving to Fly May Have Had Big Effect on Gut Microbiome January 7, 2020 UC San Diego Health Convergent Evolution of the Vertebrate Microbiome
Can religion be explained by brain wiring? faithful say no December 20, 2019 The National Tribune Religious Understandings of Science
Can a Shared Sense of Awe Help Us Overcome Political Polarization? December 18, 2019 Experience L!fe The Universality of Awe
St Andrews Divinity School awarded £3.4m grant to create free online theology encyclopaedia December 12, 2019 Christian Today Developing and Launching the St. Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology
The new science of spiritual fortitude: The key to enduring faith December 9, 2019 Religion News Service Earth as a School: Finding Meaning, Relating to God, and Experiencing Growth After a Natural Disaster
New international research project to study religion’s impact on family size and child health December 5, 2019 New Zealand Doctor The Evolutionary Dynamics of Religion, Family Size, and Child Success
Prayer and Mental Health December 3, 2019 Psychology Today Advancing Health, Religion, and Spirituality Research from Public Health to End of Life

 

Research Publications

Article Title Date Publication Related Project Title
Spin-dependent charge transfer at chiral
electrodes probed by magnetic resonance
January 21, 2020 Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics Why Nature is Chiral: The role of chirality in making processes essential for life efficient
Comparative Analyses of Vertebrate Gut Microbiomes Reveal Convergence between Birds and Bats January 7, 2020 mBio Convergent Evolution of the Vertebrate Microbiome
The Neural Basis of Predictive Pursuit January 6, 2020 Nature Neuroscience The Role of Religion in Social Change: The Case of “Secret Society” Religions
Attachment, culture, and gene-culture coevolution: expanding the evolutionary toolbox of attachment theory January 2, 2020 Attachment & Human Development The Representation of God in relation to Self Interview (RGSI): A move to the representational level in the attachment-religion connection
When mother knows best: A population genetic model of transgenerational versus intragenerational plasticity January 1, 2020 Journal of Evolutionary Biology Putting the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis to the Test
What comes to mind? January 1, 2020 Cognition Reasoning in moral thought and action
Child sleep and mother labour market outcomes January 1, 2020 Journal of Health Economics Programme on the enjoyment of life and virtuous behaviour: their determinants and actions to influence them
Using HARPS-N to characterise the long-period planets in the PH-2 and Kepler-103 systems December 21, 2019 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Opportunity M: The Fast Track to Find Other Inhabited Worlds
Allostery and Kinetic Proofreading December 13, 2019 The Journal of Physical Chemistry B The Boundaries of Life Research Initiative: Asking fundamental questions about the origins, evolution and diversity of life on Earth and beyond
Joy: An introduction to this special issue December 4, 2019 The Journal of Positive Psychology Kindling the Science of Joy: Conceptualizing and Measuring Joy
Violence reduces attention to faces and draws attention to points of contact December 1, 2019 Scientific Reports Developing the Chicago Center for Practical Wisdom
Increased similarity of neural responses to experienced and empathic distress in costly altruism December 1, 2019 Scientific Reports Examining the role of shared neural representations of pain-related affect in empathy and altruism
Assessment of Glyphosate Induced Epigenetic Transgenerational Inheritance of Pathologies and Sperm Epimutations: Generational Toxicology December 1, 2019 Scientific Reports Epigenetic Diagnostics for Preventative Medicine
Modular quantum computation in a trapped ion system December 1, 2019 Nature Communications Occam’s Quantum Mechanical Razor: Can Quantum theory admit the Simplest Understanding of Reality?