Recently Approved Grants

Human Sciences

Project Title	Grantee(s)	Project Leader(s)	Grant Amount
Religious belief, health and disease: a family perspective. I. Data collection	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
Social Practices, Scientific Practice, and Human Evolution	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
Scientists in Synagogues	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

Project Title	Grantee(s)	Project Leader(s)	Grant Amount
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

 

Recently Featured Grants

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?