STARS eNewsletter    Volume 1, Issue 7

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Thank you for your interest in the STARS program. The purpose of the enews is to keep you informed on events and happenings of the STARS program. A new letter will be sent periodically with updated information, and the latest news brought to you by the STARS team.

•    Mark your calendars: The deadline to apply for a STARS Planning Grant is May 1^st, 2007.

•   Grants Overview.

•   Note sure where to start...?

Watch Bob Russell's Presentation from the STARS conferences that suggests at least one way to restructure the standard material in "theology and science" in terms of potential STARS-fundable research.

•    AAAS meeting in San Francisco

STARS Director Dennis Hair will be staffing a booth in the exhibition area at the upcoming AAAS meetings, February 17^th-19^th, 2007.

•    STARS Grants FAQ is online.

When viewing the STARS website, look in the top right corner of your web browser for the navigation link.

• Sample Grants FAQ questions.

May only teams apply for the research grants?
Yes. Research grants will be awarded to inter-disciplinary teams consisting of at least one scientist and one philosopher, theologian, or religious studies scholar. More details are given on the Grants page.

What are the desired outcomes of the research projects?  
... see Grants faq for answer

Research grants will be awarded to inter-disciplinary teams consisting of at least one scientist and one philosopher and/or theologian. Teams may also be larger than this minimum size. The first grant opportunity consists of a planning grant of $20,000. Twenty grants at this level will be awarded, and are to assist teams in the formation of their full research proposal for the $100K grants and/or to provide modest support for research by the teams even if this does not lead to a full research proposal. Next, five grants of $100,000 each will be awarded on a highly competitive basis. Although to win a $100,000 grant a research team need not have received a $20,000 planning grant, it is presumed that the reception of a $20,000 grant will better equip a research team to successfully compete for one of the five $100,000 grants. Finally, two research grant renewals of $200,000 will be awarded on a highly competitive basis from among the five winners of the $100,000 grants.

View Grant Information

• Grant Applications available online .

The goal of STARS is to sponsor research by small teams of scientists and humanities scholars on the ways science, in light of philosophical and religious reflection, points towards the nature, character and meaning of ultimate reality. Priority will be given to young scientists with outstanding potential who are relatively new to interdisciplinary research. The awarding of STARS research grants will be on a highly competitive basis.

Meet the STARS advisors and staff.

For contact info please visit us on the web at www.ctnsstars.org/contactus

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Appreciation is expressed to the John Templeton Foundation for support of this program.