Recently Approved Grants

Human Sciences

Project Title	Grantee(s)	Project Leader(s)	Grant Amount
Global Flourishing Study Planning Grant	Baylor University	Byron Johnson; Tyler VanderWeele	$201,327

 

Philosophy and Theology

Project Title	Grantee(s)	Project Leader(s)	Grant Amount
Collaborative Inquiries in Christian Theological Anthropology	Villanova University	Jesse Couenhoven	$3,997,872
Renato Matoso Brandao- ACT Fellowship – The Cognitive Effects of Religious Thinking: A Cross-Cultural Approach	Faculdades Católicas	Renato Brandao	$206,085
The American Society of Islamic Philosophy	Brandeis University	Aaron Spevack	$234,800
Advanced Islamic Theology and Contemporary Thought Program	Bayan	Munir Shaikh; Jason (Jihad) Totten	$234,500

 

Character Virtue Development

Project Title	Grantee(s)	Project Leader(s)	Grant Amount
Georgia Laws of Life General Operating Support for Growth and Expansion	Georgia Rotary Districts Character Education Program	Carol Gray	$230,000

 

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Character, Virtue, Quarantine

 

Grantees in the News

Article Title	Date	Publication	Related Project Title
First study of multicancer blood test to screen for cancer guide intervention	April 29, 2020	EurekAlert!	Novel paradigm in cancer etiology, its relationship with aging, and novel methods for cancer early detection
‘Expanding Empathy’ lecture series moves online	April 28, 2020	Penn State News	Nudging Empathy: Harnessing Motivation to Create Sustainable Empathic Choices
A universal human psychological response	April 22, 2020	Arizona State University	Evolutionary Foundations of Human Uniqueness: Recovering Patterns of Cognition, Cumulative Culture and Cooperation
First sighting of mysterious Majorana fermion on a common metal	April 10, 2020	Phys.org	Majorana fermions (MF) creation, braiding and fusion
Stress screws up your ability to plan ahead	April 2, 2020	Futurity.org	Prospective Psychology Stage 2: A Research Competition

 

Research Publications

Article Title	Date	Publication	Related Project Title
Length-Dependent Electron Spin Polarization in Oligopeptides and DNA	April 30, 2020	The Journal of Physical Chemistry C	Why Nature is Chiral: The role of chirality in making processes essential for life efficient
Social norms and cultural diversity in the development of third-party punishment.	April 29, 2020	Proceedings of the Royal Society B	Evolutionary Foundations of Human Uniqueness: Recovering Patterns of Cognition, Cumulative Culture and Cooperation
Different perspectives on non-genetic inheritance illustrate the versatile utility of the Price equation in evolutionary biology	April 27, 2020	Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences	Putting the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis to the Test
Signature of a pair of Majorana zero modes in superconducting gold surface states	April 21, 2020	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America	Majorana fermions (MF) creation, braiding and fusion
Conservation of Energy: Missing Features in Its Nature and Justification and Why They Matter	April 4, 2020	Foundations of Science	The Mind-Body Problem and Conservation Laws: From A Priori to A Posteriori
Stress Disrupts Human Hippocampal-Prefrontal Function during Prospective Spatial Navigation and Hinders Flexible Behavior	April 1, 2020	Current Biology	Prospective Psychology Stage 2: A Research Competition
SYMBA: An end-to-end VLBI synthetic data generation pipeline	April 1, 2020	Astronomy & Astrophysics	The Black Hole Initiative: Towards a Center for Interdisciplinary Research
Current recommendations on the selection of measures for well-being	April 1, 2020	Preventive Medicine	Religion and human flourishing – new empirical approaches
More open borders for those left behind	April 1, 2020	Ethnicities	The Ideal of Self Governance
Neuroanatomy of creative achievement	April 1, 2020	NeuroImage	The Neuroscience of Scientific Creativity