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Bettina Shapira, PhD Department Chair, Department of Psychology 13 UPDATES Department Happy New Year! I hope you enjoyed the Holiday Break. I am very excited to share with you that Dr. Patrick McNamara, along with his colleague Dr. Jordan Grafman from Northwestern School of Medicine, was awarded a significant grant from the Templeton Foundation. The title of this 3-year, 6.4-million-dollar project is The cognitive neuroscience of religious cognition. NCU will approximately receive 1.7-million-dollars of the grant money. As per Dr. McNamara: There are 3 major "arms" of the project. The first arm involves a curated grant competition wherein Dr. Grafman and I will call for and evaluate grant proposals from other researchers on the brain and religion topic area. They expect to award some 3 million dollars to at least 8-10 research teams who pass rigorous scientific review. The work of these research teams will catalyze overall scientific development in this new emerging field of the cognitive neuroscience of religion.

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