Recently Approved Grants

	Public Engagement	Mathematics and Physical Sciences	Natural Sciences	Human Sciences	Character Virtue Development

Project Title	Science, Explored: Radiolab on Science and the Big Questions	Establishing a Templeton LSST Early-Career Research Fellowship	The Role of Cultural Evolution in Human Understanding	Global Flourishing Study: Piloting and Waves 1-5	Validation and Unification of Love Measurement
Grantee(s)	New York Public Radio	LSST Inc	Chancellor, Master and Scholars of the University of Oxford	Baylor University	The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Project Leader(s)	Suzie Lechtenburg	Jennifer Sokoloski	Geoffrey Bird, Caroline Catmur	Byron Johnson, Tyler VanderWeele	Sara Algoe
Amount	$1,513,801	$6,970,779	$1,047,860	$11,120,475	$1,648,108

 

August Grant Features

Mischevious Brothers: The Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu Share The Secret To Joy	India’s Patchwork Pluralism	Quantum Biology and the Arrow of Time	Generosity Comes More Naturally To Some People Than Others. Here’s Why.	Generosity: Is It Really Better To Give Than Receive?

 

 

Grantees in the News

Article Title	Date	Publication	Grantee Mentioned
New Science Explores 3 Pathways To Better Relationships — Forgiveness, Humility, And Patience	August 25, 2021	Forbes	Everett L. Worthington Jr., Virginia Commonwealth University
Why You Need to Protect Your Sense of Wonder — Especially Now	August 25, 2021	Harvard Business Review	Ethan Kross, University of Michigan
Character and Human Flourishing	August 25, 2021	Psychology Today	Tyler J. VanderWheele, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University

 

Research Publications

Article Title	Date	Publication	Related Project Title
How social media shapes polarization	August 19, 2021	Trends in Cognitive Sciences	Social virtue epistemology: What does it take to be an intellectually humble Socratic gadfly?
The arrow of time in operational formulations of quantum theory	August 9, 2021	Quantum	Life on the Edge: Quantum Thermodynamics, Quantum Biology and the Arrow of Time
Unveiling the Population of Wandering Black Holes via Electromagnetic Signatures	August 2, 2021	The Astrophysical Journal Letters	The Black Hole Initiative: Towards A Center For Interdisciplinary Research, Competing Renewal
The Link Between Religiousness and Prejudice: Testing Competing Explanations in an Adolescent Sample	August 1, 2021	Psychology of Religion and Spirituality	Religiousness and Adolescent Risk Behavior
A local community course that raises wellbeing and pro-sociality: Evidence from a randomised controlled trial	August 1, 2021	Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization	Programme on the enjoyment of life and virtuous behaviour: their determinants and actions to influence them

 

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