The Arete Initiative at the University of Chicago is pleased to announce a new $3 million research program on a New Science of Virtues. This is a multidisciplinary research initiative that seeks contributions from individuals and from teams of investigators working within the humanities and the sciences...

DEFINING WISDOM AWARDS ANNOUNCED Congratulations to the award winners of the Defining Wisdom grant competition. Participants were chosen because each showed the promise of a distinctive contribution to wisdom research and the potential to help establish a new and rigorous field of research on the topic...

GRANTS AND GIVING Templeton Foundation, U. of C. make wise funding decision By Charles Storch Chicago Tribune reporter August 21, 2008 The wisdom of the ages could use freshening up. That's the thinking at the John Templeton Foundation , which has teamed with the University of Chicago to see whether...

In November 2007, the Arete Initiative received over 600 applications for the Defining Wisdom grant competition. Applicants from over 35 countries submitted project ideas that represented practically all academic disciplines. This past January, the Project Council met in Chicago and selected forty finalists...

Grant seeks “wisdom” scholars for U of C. Chicago Maroon. By Supriya Sinhababu, Friday, November 2, 2007 Defining Wisdom, a project sponsored by the University’s Arete Initiative and funded by the John Templeton Foundation, is now accepting letters of intent from scholars seeking grants to study “wisdom...

Templeton grant to fund investigations into wisdom. The University of Chicago Chronicle . By Willliam Harms, News Office. April 12, 2007, Vol. 26, No. 14 The University will serve as the center for a new national effort to develop scholarly investigations into the nature, cultivation, benefits and applications...