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EXPANDING “SCIENCE FOR SEMINARIES”
Equipping tomorrow’s clergy to discuss scientific findings and technological advances — and the big questions they raise Today the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the John Templeton Foundation announce a $6.1 million grant to expand their work with the Association of Theological Schools to make more scientific material available to Christian seminary students in their core courses. The major dollar investment is matched by a five-year time commitment — both on the high end of the Foundation’s usual grantmaking practices — because of the strategic success of the project’s first phase, as well as the exciting prospects for its…
WATCH: Did Science Invent Optimism?
What role did science play in the emergence of optimism? Join us in conversation with the Columbia University professor and chair of biology, Dr. Stuart Firestein. Author of two trade books on the surprising role of ignorance and failure in science, Dr. Firestein is at work on a new book on optimism, from which he shares a preview in this exclusive discussion with the John Templeton Foundation. His bold argument makes the sweeping claim that it was the emergence of science, and its discovery of technologies that enabled rapid improvement in quality of life, that first allowed people to feel…
Scientists in Synagogues
Inviting Jewish congregations to explore awe, curiosity and wonder through the lens of science In May of 2017 an audience of more than a hundred gathered at Boston’s Congregation B’nai Shalom to hear Google executive Jeremy Wertheimer talk about the ways that artificial intelligence is transforming the human experience. As part of his talk, Wertheimer linked contemporary debates about who bears the blame if a self-driving car causes an injury, with a millenia-old Talmudic discussion of a surprisingly similar circumstance: if someone has an ox that gores a person or another animal, when should it be viewed as an accident…
WOW, WHY, HOW?
Post by post, Orbiter is building an online archive of wonder as it explores the big questions of the natural and social sciences When describing his mission as managing editor of ORBITER magazine, Mark Moring considers the principal characters in the original Star Trek series. “I think about Spock, who was obviously intensely interested in the science, the technology, and the nuts and bolts of how things worked,” Moring says. “But he never really asked the questions of why things work the way they do. Kirk, on the other hand, was bold to the point of being reckless, sometimes making…
John Templeton Foundation Announces New Director of Human Sciences
The John Templeton Foundation is pleased to announce that Nicholas J. S. Gibson, Ph.D. has been appointed to lead the Human Sciences department. With the Foundation since 2011, Dr. Gibson now takes on the role of Director, Human Sciences. In this role, Dr. Gibson will commission and oversee philanthropic initiatives spanning the Foundation’s Human Sciences portfolio, which includes more than $80 million of projects around the world. The Human Sciences department supports basic and applied scientific research on a wide array of topics within the social, behavioral, cognitive, and health sciences, especially as they relate to human nature, human flourishing,…
Q&A: Five Questions with Matt Warner
Matt Warner is president of Atlas Network, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit organization connecting a global network of more than 500 free-market organizations in over 90 countries to the ideas and resources needed to promote individual freedom and to identify and remove barriers to human flourishing. Warner is the project leader for the John Templeton Foundation-funded grant Doing Development Differently, which works with think tanks in dozens of countries to identify and support “locally grown solutions to poverty.” This interview was conducted and edited by Nate Barksdale, lead writer for the John Templeton Foundation’s “Possibilities” newsletter. How did you first get…
Quantum biology and the arrow of time
Jellyfish and migratory birds may help physicists understand the mysterious shift from quantum to classical mechanics Time as we experience it only ever appears to move forward, pointing one-way like an arrow. But at the scale of quantum physics, time is reversible: simple quantum processes, such as a particle scattering through a potential, make just as much sense when viewed forward or backwards through time. We do know, however, that many complex processes are irreversible: they cannot simply be reversed by running the clock backwards. How such irreversible processes emerge from smaller reversible building blocks is not fully understood by…
Foundation Welcomes Two New Program Officers
The John Templeton Foundation is excited to announce the arrival of two new Program Officers — Dr. Sarah Lane Ritchie and Dr. Emanuela Sani. Dr. Sarah Lane Ritchie joins the Foundation as the Program Officer in Philosophy & Theology. In this role, she works to develop new funding initiatives and manages the full life-cycle of the grant process. Before coming to the Foundation, Dr. Lane Ritchie was Lecturer in Theology & Science at the University of Edinburgh. Dr. Lane Ritchie received her B.A. in Philosophy & Religion from Spring Arbor University, an M.Div. from Princeton Theological Seminary, and an M.Sc.…
Welcome to Our New Trustees
The John Templeton Foundation is pleased to announce the appointment of two new members to its Board of Trustees, Dr. Kim Tan and Ms. Lauren Templeton. The new trustees were confirmed by a vote of the Foundation’s members at its annual meeting, held virtually on June 26-28, 2020. Their terms are effective as of July 1, 2020. They join the other serving members of the 12-person Board of Trustees that governs the Foundation. The Trustees are guided by the charter and bylaws written by Sir John Templeton. Dr. Tan is the Chairman of Springhill Management (UK), a fund management company…
Tackling Philadelphia’s Poverty by Aiding Entrepreneurs of Color
New program to connect dozens of new businesses with capital and resources while building best practices for further growth Dozens of new minority-owned businesses in Philadelphia will launch with a targeted boost of strategy and capital over the next 18 months under the Entrepreneurs of Color project, a new initiative by the United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey (UWGPSNJ) with $234,000 in funding from the John Templeton Foundation. The grant supports research into best practices that will inform the development of pilot programs. The pilot programs are meant to empower two cohorts of entrepreneurs, connecting them with…
