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Monthly Grant Report – August 2019
Recently Approved Grants Human Sciences Project Title Grantee(s) Project Leader(s) Grant Amount Landmark Spirituality and Health Survey Follow-Up: Prediction to Mortality, Mental, and Physical Health Outcomes University of Miami Gail Ironson, Neal Krause $682,144 Promoting Open Inquiry, Viewpoint Diversity, and Constructive Disagreement on American College Campuses and in the Disciplines Heterodox Academy Deb Mashek $2,852,229 Philosophy & Theology Project Title Grantee(s) Project Leader(s) Grant Amount Developing Spirituality and Mindfulness Curricula for Next Generation Philanthropic Leaders The Philanthropy Workshop Renee Kaplan, Jennifer Davis $204,284 God and the Book of Nature University of Edinburgh Mark Harris, Sarah Ritchie $2,795,875 How stories…
Hope and Grit: Companions on the Road to Change
Surprising Allies
A new book dispels myths about scientists and people of faith Rice University sociologist Elaine Howard Ecklund has devoted much of the last decade to dismantling common stereotypes about religion and science, largely by surveying scientists and people of faith to find out what they actually think. Still, whenever she gives an interview on her work, the first question is always, So, is there a conflict between religion and science? “I'm continually surprised about how interested people are in the religion and science interface,” Ecklund says. “This kind of conflict motif, I think, does sell, so I don't feel cynical…
Developing and Launching the St. Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology
How Scientists Showed Us the Unseeable
Pulling Back the Curtain on a Black Hole Breakthrough On April 10, 2019 front pages and homepages around the world featured a black-and-orange picture of a blurred ring, dark at the center and bulging slightly at the bottom — the first-ever direct image of a black hole. The picture was the result of an unprecedented scientific collaboration, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), involving more than 300 researchers working on six continents. Now a new feature-length film, Black Holes: The Edge of All We Know, weaves together the story behind the groundbreaking image with other recent developments in black hole science,…
Linda Kiraly Gilbert Joins the John Templeton Foundation as Chief Financial and Operating Officer
Can We Train Our Brains to Be More Resilient?
Searching for Cosmic Company: Astrophysicist Jennifer Wiseman on the human fascination with alien life
Humans have contemplated the possibility of life beyond Earth for millenia. In ancient Greece, the philosopher Epicurus pondered “an infinity of worlds” outside of our own. Roman poet Lucretius theorized that “there must be other earths inhabited by different tribes of men and breeds of beasts.” As science and our knowledge of the universe advanced, extraterrestrial questions intensified. From the creation of SETI to recent headlines about UFOs, humans are pouring more attention and resources into the discovery of alien life than ever before. To understand this fascination, as well as the spiritual and philosophical implications of life beyond Earth, we…
Cross-Training to Understand Confucian Culture
A multidisciplinary investigation of ‘How China Became Chinese.’ Ryan Nichols joined the faculty of Cal State Fullerton in 2006, gained tenure four years later, and became a full professor of philosophy in 2014. He quickly notched up an impressive track record as a scholar, teacher, and book author, with expertise in Chinese philosophy, the philosophy of religion, and the cognitive science of religion. But in 2018 Nichols went back to school, becoming a full-time undergraduate and graduate student at Fullerton and at UCLA, to pursue a specially-tailored program in the social and biological sciences. Nichols’ project was enabled by a…
Developing Individualized Interventions to Heighten Intellectual Humility
