Recently Approved Grants
Human Sciences
| Project Title | Grantee(s) | Project Leader(s) | Grant Amount |
| Cambridge International Handbook of the Psychology of Religion | Indiana University | Kevin Ladd | $234,517 |
| Modernization, Mega Churches, and the Urban Face of Christianity in the Global South | Canisius College | Timothy Wadkins | $1,866,115 |
| Gratitude to God, Phase 2: Psychological, Philosophical, and Theological Investigations | Biola University | Peter Hill, Robert Emmons | $3,989,963 |
Natural Sciences
| Project Title | Grantee(s) | Project Leader(s) | Grant Amount |
| The Quantum Information Structure of Spacetime (QISS) | Centre Samy Maroun Pour la Recherche Sur L’Espace, le Temps et la Physique Quantique | Carlo Rovelli, Marios Christodoulou | $2,228,621 |
| Understanding “time” in evolution | President and Fellows of Harvard College | Martin Nowak, Benjamin Allen | $2,091,121 |
| The Black Hole Initiative: Towards a Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Competing Renewal | President and Fellows of Harvard College | Sheperd Doeleman, Abraham Loeb | $3,599,996 |
| Microbiome-mediated oxytocin release in human health | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Susan Erdman | $1,691,967 |
Philosophy and Theology
| Project Title | Grantee(s) | Project Leader(s) | Grant Amount |
| Supporting Constructive Research on the Existence of God in Portuguese-Speaking Latin America | Associação Brasileira de Filosofia da Religiao (ABFR) | Agnaldo Portugal | $231,556 |
| Developing and Launching the St. Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology | University Court of the University of St Andrews | Brendan Wolfe, Steve Holmes | $4,321,318 |
Public Engagement
| Project Title | Grantee(s) | Project Leader(s) | Grant Amount |
| FQXi Research Reviews | Foundational Questions Institute | Zeeya Merali | $207,000 |
| Purpose Across the Lifespan | Regents of the University of California at Berkeley | Jason Marsh | $234,791 |
| The Roundtable on Science and Religion | The Leadership Connection, Inc. | David Thom | $979,425 |
| New Horizons for Science and Religion in Central and Eastern Europe | Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford | Andrew Pinsent | $2,971,688 |
Character Virtue Development
| Project Title | Grantee(s) | Project Leader(s) | Grant Amount |
| The Development of Curiosity in Childhood | Regents of the University of California at Berkeley | Alison Gopnik, Celeste Kidd | $499,943 |
Genetics
| Project Title | Grantee(s) | Project Leader(s) | Grant Amount |
| Advances in our understanding of the mechanisms of obesity and radiation in carcinogenesis, and personalized cancer etiology. | The Johns Hopkins University | Cristian Tomasetti | $1,035,955 |
Recently Featured Grants
| Creating jobs and alleviating poverty through business support in Indonesia |
| The Neuroscience of Self-Determination |
Grantees in the News
| Article Title | Date | Publication | Related Project Title |
| The Science of Gratitude | November 27, 2019 | Psychology Today | Expanding the Science and Practice of Gratitude Phase Two |
| Spirituality Is a Powerful Tool in Suicide Prevention | November 27, 2019 | Elemental+ | Religion and human flourishing – new empirical approaches |
| What Matters In College Admission | November 20, 2019 | Forbes | Building Virtues through College Admissions: Developing Effective, Authentic Assessments that Positively Motivate Student Behavior |
| Holding a Grudge Can Make You Sick | November 20, 2019 | Elemental+ | Religion and human flourishing – new empirical approaches |
| The Hunt for Alien Life and Exoplanets, with David Charbonneau | November 18, 2019 | UChicago News | Opportunity M: The Fast Track to Find Other Inhabited Worlds |
| Stanford scientists link Neanderthal extinction to human diseases | November 7, 2019 | Stanford News Service | Novel cultural approaches to human evolution |
