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2.28

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Total Giving as of 12/31/23

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3.4

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Endowment Size as of 12/31/23

58

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5,049

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355

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Grant Spotlights

Project Leader(s) Alan Love
| Grantee(s) Regents of the University of Minnesota

Agency, Directionality, and Function: Foundations for a Science of Purpose

Although biologists often use descriptive language that imputes purposiveness to living systems, many have argued that these conceptions are at best heuristic, and at worst egregious errors. However, there is a growing recognition that biological phenomena which suggest agency, directionality, or goal-directedness demand new conceptual frameworks that can translate into rigorous theoretical models and discriminating empirical tests. This project addresses the demand through a novel, interdisciplinary, large-scale program that combines philosophers, theoreticians, and experimentalists to: (i) articulate more precise concepts related to function and purpose, (ii) develop innovative formal models of agency, (iii) operationalize notions of goal-directedness for accurate measurement

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Project Leader(s) Byron Johnson, Tyler VanderWeele
| Grantee(s) Baylor University

Global Flourishing Study: Piloting And Waves 1-5

The Global Flourishing Study (GFS) is a longitudinal data collection and research collaboration between scholars at Harvard University and Baylor University, in partnership with Gallup and the Center for Open Science and with the support of a consortium of funders. The $43.4 million initiative will include data collection for approximately 240,000 participants from 22 geographically and culturally diverse countries, including Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Egypt, Germany, India, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, the Philippines, Poland, Russia, Turkey, South Africa, Spain, Tanzania, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The study will obtain nationally representative data within each country, with…

Project Leader(s) Jim Al-Khalili, Andrea Rocco
| Grantee(s) University of Surrey

Life On The Edge: Quantum Thermodynamics, Quantum Biology And The…

One of the most profound aspects of existence is the distinction between past and future, the so-called arrow of time. This self-evident time ‘asymmetry’ is a defining characteristic of life: we’re born, we grow older, and we die. Time never runs backwards for us (even if we sometime wish we could turn the clock back). However, time asymmetry is not evident down at the microscopic (atomic) level – rather, it is an ‘emergent’ property. This is the central issue we aim to tackle in this ambitious program of research; namely, how the time-symmetric micro-world transitions to the time asymmetric everyday…