Recently Approved Grants

Human Sciences

Project Title	Grantee(s)	Project Leader(s)	Grant Amount
A Planning Project to Uncover the Cognitive and Cultural Foundations of Gratitude	Regents of The University of California at San Diego	Michael McCullough; Eric Pedersen	$39,614

Natural Sciences

Project Title	Grantee(s)	Project Leader(s)	Grant Amount
Exploring the Dark Sector	University of California, Riverside	Hai-Bo Yu	$234,800

 

Philosophy and Theology

Project Title	Grantee(s)	Project Leader(s)	Grant Amount
Investigating Motivated Reasoning in Intellectual Humility: A Personality Difference Approach	Regents of the University of Michigan	David Dunning	$234,758

 

Public Engagement

Project Title	Grantee(s)	Project Leader(s)	Grant Amount
CORES | COFAS: Conversations on Religion, Ethics, and Science | Conversations on Faith and Science	Community Ministries International	Ben Sanders; Barry Ritchie	$230,000

 

Recently Featured Grants

Q&A: Five Questions with Jeffrey Rosen

Building Virtues through College Admissions: Developing Effective, Authentic Assessments that Positively Motivate Student Behavior

Unfolding Quantum Intuition

 

Grantees in the News

Article Title	Date	Publication	Related Project Title
The Healing Powers of Gratitude	May 29, 2020	Self.com	Expanding the Science and Practice of Gratitude Phase Two
Shared Ancestry? Genomes Provide New Insight into Canaanite Heritage	May 28, 2020	The Jewish Press	The Ancient DNA Atlas of Humanity
Templeton Foundation awards $3.9 million to Villanova University	May 25, 2020	Philanthropy News Digest	Collaborative Inquiries in Christian Theological Anthropology
Migration patterns reveal an ‘Eden’ for ancient humans and animals	May 22, 2020	ScienceDaily	Evolutionary Foundations of Human Uniqueness: Recovering Patterns of Cognition, Cumulative Culture and Cooperation
How one monk’s ‘inner evolution’ fuels social justice work	May 21, 2020	The Christian Science Monitor	Spiritual Exemplars: A Global Project on Engaged Spirituality
PEN America’s Inaugural Freedom To Write Index: 238 Imprisoned	May 20, 2020	Publishing Perspectives	Writers and Intellectuals Under Threat: Documenting Limits on Free Expression
Is there space for science in seminaries? This professor says yes.	May 12, 2020	U.S. Catholic	Science for Seminaries: Phase II
Regularly attending religious services associated with lower risk of deaths of despair	May 6, 2020	Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health	Religion and human flourishing – new empirical approaches
Study: Life might survive, and thrive, in a hydrogen world	May 4, 2020	MIT News	The Alien Earths Initiative

 

Research Publications

Article Title	Date	Publication	Related Project Title
Spontaneous formation of autocatalytic sets with self-replicating inorganic metal oxide clusters	May 19, 2020	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America	Exploring the Informational Transitions Bridging Simple Chemistry and Minimal Life
Love of Neighbor During a Pandemic: Navigating the Competing Goods of Religious Gatherings and Physical Health	May 13, 2020	Journal of Religion and Health	Religion and human flourishing – new empirical approaches
How School Contexts Shape the Relations Among Adolescents’ Beliefs, Peer Victimization, and Depressive Symptoms	May 9, 2020	Journal of Research on Adolescence	A national evaluation of an intervention to promote adolescent thriving
Are sequential sample designs useful for examining post-traumatic changes in character strengths?	May 3, 2020	The Journal of Positive Psychology	The Pathways to Character Project
Stress Disrupts Human Hippocampal-Prefrontal Function during Prospective Spatial Navigation and Hinders Flexible Behavior	May 1, 2020	Current Biology	Prospective Psychology Stage 2: A Research Competition
Reconstructing the evolutionary history of nitrogenases: Evidence for ancestral molybdenum‐cofactor utilization	May 1, 2020	Geobiology	Molecular insights into historical constraints on evolution
Some Other “No Hole” Spacetimes Properties Are Unstable Too	May 1, 2020	Foundations of Physics	The Black Hole Initiative: Towards a Center for Interdisciplinary Research
Some Philosophical Prehistory of the (Earman-Norton) hole argument	May 1, 2020	Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics	New Directions in Philosophy of Cosmology
Culture and colonial legacy: Evidence from public goods games	May 1, 2020	Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization	The Next RES Research Initiative: Expanding the advancements made in the economic study of religion and religious markets
Einstein clusters as models of inhomogeneous spacetimes	May 1, 2020	European Physical Journal C	Conceptual Problems in Unification Theories