Recently Approved Grants

Philosophy and Theology

Project Title	Grantee(s)	Project Leader(s)	Grant Amount
Science and Ultimate Reality: The Culminating Volume in the Six-Volume Religious Philosophy Series	Center for Mind and Culture	Wesley Wildman	$99,818

 

Individual Freedom & Free Markets

Project Title	Grantee(s)	Project Leader(s)	Grant Amount
Enterprise Solutions to Poverty – Field Guide	Duke University	Joshua Yates; Justin Straight	$232,243

 

Recently Featured Grants

Collaborative Inquiries in Christian Theological Anthropology

Advancing the Study of Theology for Emerging Muslim Leaders

The Everything Happens Project

Novel paradigm in cancer etiology, its relationship with aging, and novel methods for cancer early detection

 

Grantees in the News

Article Title	Date	Publication	Related Project Title
Nagasawa Wins £2.15 Million Grant to “Globalize” Philosophy of Religion	June 30, 2020	Daily Nous	The Global Philosophy of Religion Project
An Audacious Explanation for Fast Radio Bursts	June 24, 2020	Scientific American	The Black Hole Initiative: Towards a Center for Interdisciplinary Research
How we can keep fear from spiraling out of our control	June 23, 2020	The Washington Post	Examining the role of shared neural representations of pain-related affect in empathy and altruism
Ancient Bones Offer Clues To How Long Ago Humans Cared For The Vulnerable	June 17, 2020	NPR	Hidden Depths: The ancestry of our most human emotions

 

Research Publications

Article Title	Date	Publication	Related Project Title
The role of food transfers in wild golden lion tamarins (Leontopithecus rosalia): Support for the informational and nutritional hypothesis	June 24, 2020	Primates	Exploring the Evolutionary Foundations of Cultural Complexity, Creativity and Trust
Phonon counting thermometry of an ultracoherent membrane resonator near its motional ground state	June 20, 2020	Optica	Quantum limits of the measurement of motion
Spacetime functionalism in general relativity and quantum gravity	June 16, 2020	Synthese	Space and Time After Quantum Gravity
Happiness, Meaning, and Psychological Richness	June 1, 2020	Affective Science	Well-Being: Investigations in Science, Philosophy, Theology, & Religious Studies
Preferences and constraints: the value of economic games for studying human behaviour	June 1, 2020	Royal Society Open Science	Generous by nature: Need-based transfers and the origins of human cooperation
A functional approach to explanation-seeking curiosity	June 1, 2020	Cognitive Psychology	When and Why We Explain: Need for Explanation and Tolerance for Mystery in Science and Religion
Gene-Mating Dynamic Evolution Theory I: Fundamental assumptions, exactly solvable models and analytic solutions	June 1, 2020	Theory in Biosciences	Emergence of elementary particles and fundamental laws from quantum entanglements
The Appearance-Related Social Media Consciousness Scale: Development and validation with adolescents	June 1, 2020	Body Image	The Disciplined Mind: Brief Mindfulness-Based Strategies to Improve Academic Diligence
Enhanced locomotor performance on familiar surfaces is uncoupled from morphological plasticity in Anolis lizards	June 1, 2020	Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A Ecological and Integrative Physiology	Putting the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis to the Test
Covering Problems and Core Percolations on Hypergraphs	June 1, 2020	Physical Review Letters	The control principles of complex systems