Recently Approved Grants

Human Sciences

Project Title	Grantee(s)	Project Leader(s)	Grant Amount
Developing Belief: The Development and Diversity of Religious Cognition and Behavior: Phase 1	University of California, Riverside	Rebekah Richert; Kathleen Corriveau	$9,866,732
Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project Phase VI	Pew Charitable Trusts	Alan Cooperman	$2,446,900

 

Philosophy and Theology

Project Title	Grantee(s)	Project Leader(s)	Grant Amount
Social virtue epistemology: What does it take to be an intellectually humble Socratic gadfly?	Macquarie University	Mark Alfano; Jay Van Bavel	$797,870
The Launch of MA & PhD Degrees in Philosophy and the Foundations of Science for Latin America	Asociación Civil de Estudios Superiores (ACES)	Claudia Vanney; Ignacio Silva	$510,112
The Global Philosophy of Religion Project	University of Birmingham	Yujin Nagasawa	$2,418,364

 

Public Engagement

Project Title	Grantee(s)	Project Leader(s)	Grant Amount
Developing the Exploration of Big Questions with Under 18s in the UK and Internationally	The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion	Lizzie Henderson; Stephanie Bryant	$708,130
Cultivating Virtue at the Congregational Level: An Ecclesial Theology of Love, Hope, and Humility	Society for the Advancement of Ecclesial Theology	Todd Wilson	$1,017,593
Fiat Lux: The Word on Fire Institute on Science and Religion	Word on Fire Catholic Ministries	Jared Zimmerer	$1,165,640

 

Character Virtue Development

Project Title	Grantee(s)	Project Leader(s)	Grant Amount
Supporting Character Strengths in Youth: An Exploration of Parenting Strategies in Communities of Color	The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia	Kenneth Ginsburg; Joanna Williams	$234,054

 

Individual Freedom & Free Markets

Project Title	Grantee(s)	Project Leader(s)	Grant Amount
The Future of Free Speech: Rebuilding the Bulwark of Liberty	Justitia	Jacob Mchangama	$1,287,131

 

Recently Featured Grants

Accurately Measuring Religious Belief and Attitudes Around the World

Space and Time After Quantum Gravity

Mental Healthcare, Virtue, and Human Flourishing

 

Grantees in the News

Article Title	Date	Publication	Related Project Title
Peter Hill: Looking beyond ourselves and our church walls to find humility	March 31, 2020	Faith & Leadership	Gratitude to God, Phase 2: Psychological, Philosophical, and Theological Investigations
Talent, you’re born with. Creativity, you can grow yourself	March 18, 2020	Aeon	Aeon Magazine – 24-month publishing program focussed on Science and the Big Questions
Black hole team discovers path to razor-sharp black hole images	March 18, 2020	EurekAlert!	The Black Hole Initiative: Towards a Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Competing Renewal
The Science of Affection: Why Showing Love to Kids Matters	March 12, 2020	Medium	Advancing Health, Religion, and Spirituality Research from Public Health to End of Life
Chemistry Professor Jason Green Tackling Laws of Chemistry Through John Templeton Foundation Grant	March 10, 2020	UMass Boston News	Universal growth laws in the chemistry of life processes
Believing in divine forgiveness may affect well-being	March 9, 2020	Open Access Government	Divine forgiveness: Phase 1
First ‘Expanding Empathy’ lecture coming March 5 with ethicist Jesse Graham	March 2, 2020	Penn State News	Nudging Empathy: Harnessing Motivation to Create Sustainable Empathic Choices

 

Research Publications

Article Title	Date	Publication	Related Project Title
New techniques for a measurement of the electron’s electric dipole moment	March 26, 2020	New Journal of Physics	Revealing the undiscovered forces that break matter-antimatter symmetry by measuring the shape of electrons
Preparation and execution of voluntary action both contribute to awareness of intention	March 25, 2020	Proceedings of the Royal Society B	Consciousness and Free Will: A Joint Neuroscientific-Philosophical Investigation
Some Other “No Hole” Spacetimes Properties Are Unstable Too	March 14, 2020	Foundations of Physics	The Black Hole Initiative: Towards a Center for Interdisciplinary Research
Distinct patterns of thought mediate the link between brain functional connectomes and well-being	March 10, 2020	Network Neuroscience	Prospective Psychology Stage 2: A Research Competition
Historical comparison of gender inequality in scientific careers across countries and disciplines	March 3, 2020	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences	Using Big Data to Quantify and Cultivate Genius
Strategic decisions: behavioral differences between CEOs and others	March 1, 2020	Experimental Economics	Private Enterprise, Entrepreneurs and Public-Spiritedness in China
O Causation, Where Art Thou?	March 1, 2020	BioScience	Putting the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis to the Test
Self-Transcendent Emotions and Social Media: Exploring the Content and Consumers of Inspirational Facebook Posts	March 1, 2020	New Media & Society	Your Daily Dose of Inspiration: Exploring How People Use and are Impacted by Media Content that Elicits Self-Transcendent Emotions
Heat and work along individual trajectories of a quantum bit	March 1, 2020	Physical Review Letters	Structure of Time in Quantum Mechanics
Some Philosophical Prehistory of the (Earman-Norton) hole argument	March 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