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TRI News
The Integration Symposium is almost here! The Symposium starts next Wednesday, February 15, 2012, but pre-registration ends on February 13, 2012. Make sure to register for this incredible conference. Click on the link for more information about the Symposium, including the newly added CME units that will be available, and to register for the Symposium! Don't wait!
Announcing two new employment opportunities with the Thrive Center for post-doctoral researchers! The positions will be a part of the "Science of Intellectual Humility Project." The positions start May 2012 and will continue for three years. For more infomation, click the links below on the employment opportunity you are interested in:
The Winter Research Colloquium Schedule is available now. Click here to see the schedule, and plan to join us for this exciting lecture series!
Congratulations to Dr. James Van Slyke and Dr. Scott Garrels, who have recently had books published! Dr. Van Slyke's book, The Cognitive Science of Religion, and Dr. Garrels's book, Mimesis and Science, are both available now. Click on either of the books to get more information!
Congratulations to Dr. Justin Barrett on his new grant “Is Religion Natural? The Chinese Challenge” funded by the Templeton World Charity Foundation. This project involves participation from 5 other universities and it has been designed with two aims in mind: (1) scientifically address one of humanity’s big questions, and (2) create a blue print for a new and growing body of scholars to continue asking and answering such questions in the world’s largest nation. Click here to read more!
Dr. Maria Wong joined the School of Psychology faculty at Fuller this fall and TRI is really excited to welcome her and looking forward to her research taking off. Dr. Wong comes from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she was trained as a developmental psychologist. Her research focus is on children’s social and emotional development but she intends to expand that to development of spirituality. She is also very excited about getting involved in projects involving China either by providing psychological and pastoral counseling training to Chinese seminaries or helping Chinese scholars build an indigenous perspective on the psychology of religion. Welcome!!
The Understand Virtue: New Directions Bridging Neuroscience and Philosophy conference was a great success bringing scholars and thinkers from around the world for two and a half days of rich and generative discussion. Thanks to all the participants, panelists, and the public who came out to support both lectures at Fuller and at Caltech. For a detailed summary of the two plenary lectures follow the link below.