Templeton Foundation’s Grant Making: a Sampling of Recent Awards

— To help establish a research program to explore students’ spiritual growth during the college

years: $2-million over three years to the Higher Education Research Institute, at the University of California at Los Angeles.

— To evaluate educational programs that link spirituality and health, to support medical training on patient spirituality, and to investigate ethical guidelines for incorporating spirituality into patient care: $1-million to the George Washington University Institute for Spirituality and Health (Washington).

— To investigate the concept of “unlimited love,” a term coined by the foundation’s creator, John M. Templeton, which he defines as unselfish love toward humanity, and to support research on the connections between altruism and health, and other projects: $4-million over three years to the Institute for Research on Unlimited Love, a nonprofit research group at Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland).

— To promote the teaching of free-enterprise principles, and for the development of an interactive Web site aimed at students concerned about globalization and its effects: $280,000 to the Globalization Education Project, at the Institute for Humane Studies, George Mason University (Fairfax, Va.).

— To establish academic programs that examine the relationship between science and religion: $100,000 each to the University of Montreal and the University of California at Los Angeles.