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Mario Beauregard
Mario Beauregardis currently associate professor in the Departments of Radiology and Psychology at the Universite de Montreal (Quebec, Canada). He obtained a B.Sc. in Psychology (1985) and a Ph.D. in Neuroscience (1992) from Universite de Montreal. His Ph.D. work was done under the supervision of Dr. Laurent Descarries and focused on the microiontopheretic characterization of dopaminergic neurotransmission in the rat¹s central nervous system. After obtaining his Ph.D., he did a first postdoctoral fellowship (1992-1994) with Dr. Jocelyne Bachevalier, at the Department of Neurobiology & Anatomy, University of Texas Medical School (in Houston). His research topic was a second postdoctoral fellowship at the Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University (1994-1996), working this time on the neural basis of implicit memory in humans, under the guidance of Dr. Howard Chertkow. As an independent researcher, the leitmotiv of his research concerns the investigation of the neural substrate underlying the relationship between self-consciousness, volition, and emotion regulation. In order to do so, he uses functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), positron emission tomography (PET), and multi-channel EEG. Beauregard's other major research interests regard the mind-brain question and the neurobiology of spiritual transformation.
Lowry Burgess is an internationally renowned environmental artist. He created the first official art payload to be taken into outer space by NASA. His artworks are in museums in the US and in Europe. He is Professor of Art and former Dean of the College of Fine Arts at Carnegie Mellon University where he co-founded the Studio for Creative Inquiry which supports advanced research projects in the arts. He directed SIMLAB, an advanced networked VR laboratory at the National Engineering Consortium at Carnegie Mellon University. He has been a Fellow and Senior Consultant at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts for 25 years where he created and directed large collaborative projects in the US and Europe. He is on the International Advisory Committee on Art, Science and Technology at MIT. He was the concept originator of the international new year's arts festival called "First Night". He originated the arts in the subways programs for the Department of Transportation. He has developed and advised in more than a dozen major city scale projects. He has been honored with awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the National Institute of Arts and Letters, the Guggenheim Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. His book, "Burgess, the Quiet Axis" received the prestigious Imperishable Gold Award from Le Devoir in Montreal.He has been featured in numerous international television and radio broadcasts in the US, Europe and Japan including: NOVA, "Artists in the Lab"; Smithsonian World, "Elephant on a Hill", "Artists of Earthwatch":"Arts and New Technologies" (Tokyo 12); "Artransition" (German National Television); "The Quiet Axis" (Hungarian State Television), on MSNBC; and more than two hundred national (including two NPR broadcasts) and international radio broadcasts. In 2001, he authored the "Toronto Manifesto", a call to the world for the preservation of historical monuments in reaction to the destruction of the Buddhas in Bamiyan Afghanistan where he placed the "inclined Galactic Light Pond" in 1974. This year he is preparing an artwork for the Antarctic Pole in December.
Hyung S. Choi, Ph.D., is Director for Research and Programs in the Natural Sciences at the Metanexus Institute. He is also a Visiting Fellow at St. Edmund's College, Cambridge University. He was a Witherspoon Fellow at the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences in Berkeley and the founding director of the Canyon Institute for Advanced Studies in Phoenix. Dr. Choi received both his M.Phil. and his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the Graduate Center of CUNY and his M.Div. from Princeton Theological Seminary. Professor Choi is a recipient of many awards for his research and teaching. His areas of expertise include quantum measurement theory, quantum optics and the interdisciplinary area between science and religion. Having recently completed the Bibliography for Ultimate Reality project supported by the John Templeton Foundation, he is currently writing a book entitled Knowledge of the Unseen: Probing Deeper Realities.
Peter Dodson holds three degrees in earth sciences: B.Sc. University of Ottawa ’68; M.Sc. University of Alberta ’70; Ph.D. Yale University ’74. He has spent his entire career as a gross anatomist at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, with a secondary appointment in the Dept. of Geology. He is also a research associate at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. He has done extensive fieldwork in the western United States and Canada. In 1981 he discovered a new horned dinosaur in Montana, which he described as Avaceratops lammersi in 1986. Since 1995 he has visited China (twice) and India, and has participated in field projects in Madagascar, Egypt and Argentina. Less exotic but also rewarding has been a field site in Montana that has recently yielded a new sauropod dinosaur. He is co-editor of The Dinosauria, University of California Press, 1990, author of The Horned Dinosaurs (Princeton University Press, 1996), and several children’s books, including An Alphabet of Dinosaurs (Scholastic 1995). He taught a Templeton course on science and religion at the University of Pennsylvania in 1999, and is president emeritus Institute, and current secretary of Metanexus.
Kathleen Duffy, SSJ received her PhD in Physics from Drexel University. Currently, she is Professor of Physics at Chestnut Hill College. Formerly, she taught physics at Drexel University, Bryn Mawr College, Ateneo de Manila University and University of the Philippines. She has published research in atomic and molecular physics and in chaos theory in journals such as Physics Review Letters, Journal of Chemical Physics and Chemical Physics Letters, as well as Philippine journals and bulletins. She is presently a member of the Board of Directors of the METANEXUS Institute for Religion and Science and Cosmos and Creation. Her current research interest is in the synthetic work of Teilhard de Chardin and its relationship to modern developments in science. She has published some of her work in this field in Teilhard Studies.
George F. R. Ellis, Ph.D., is professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Cape Town. After completing his Ph.D. at Cambridge University with Dennis Sciama as supervisor, he lectured at Cambridge and has been visiting Professor at Texas University, the University of Chicago, Hamburg University, Boston University, the University of Alberta, and Queen Mary College (London University). He has written many papers on relativity theory and cosmology, among them The Large Scale Structure of Space Time co-authored with Stephen Hawking (Cambridge University Press,1973); Before the Beginning: Cosmology Explained (Merion Boyars, 1993); Is the Universe Open or Closed? The Density of Matter in the Universe with Peter Coles (Cambridge University Press, 1997); and Dynamical Systems in Cosmology with John Wainwright. He has also written on science policy and developmental issues, science education, and science and religion issues. He is co-author with Nancey Murphy of On the Moral Nature of the Universe (Fortress Press, 1996) and editor of The Far-flung Universe: Eschatology from a Cosmic Perspective (Templeton Foundation Press, 2002). He is past president of the International Society of General Relativity and Gravitation and of the Royal Society of South Africa and fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. Among the prizes and honorary degrees he has received are the Claude Harris Leon Foundation Achievement Award, the Gold Medal of the South African Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Star of South Africa Medal, which was presented to him in 1999 by President Nelson Mandela. He is the recipient of the 2004 Templeton Prize.
William "Billy" Grassie, Ph.D. is founder and executive director of the Metanexus Institute on Religion and Science [www.metanexus.net]. Metanexus currently runs some 300 projects at universities in 36 countries. Grassie also serves as executive editor of the Institute’s online magazine and discussion forum with over 140,000 monthly page views and over 6000 regular subscribers in 57 different countries. He has taught in a variety of positions at Temple University, Swarthmore College, and the University of Pennsylvania. Grassie received his doctorate in religion from Temple University in 1994 and his BA from Middlebury College in 1979. Prior to graduate school, Grassie worked for ten years in religiously-based social service and advocacy organizations in Washington, D.C; Jerusalem, Israel; Berlin, Germany; and Philadelphia, PA. He is the recipient of a number of academic awards and grants from the American Friends Service Committee, the Roothbert Fellowship, and the John Templeton Foundation. He is a member of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).
Niels Henrik Gregersen, Ph.D. obtained his doctorate from Copenhagen University. Previously Research Professor in Theology & Science at the University of Aarhus, Denmark, in 2004 he became Professor and Chair of Systematic Theology at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. From 1992 to 2003, Professor Gregersen has been a leader of the Danish Science-Theology Forum. From 1998 to 2002, he was Vice-President of The European Society for the Study of Science and Theology (ESSSAT) and responsible for its publication program. In 2002, Professor Gregersen was elected president of The Learned Society, Denmark and served through 2003. Founding member and Executive Committee meber of International Society of Science and Religion (ISSR) since 2002. His most recent publications include Gift of Grace: The Future of Lutheran Theology (Fortress Press, 2005) From Complexity to Life: On the Emergence of Life and Meaning (Oxford University Press, 2003) and Design and Disorder. Perspectives from Science & Theology (T & T Clark, 2002). He is associate editor of the Encyclopedia of Science and Religion volumes I-II (MacMillan Reference 2003) and systematic-theological editor of Dansk teologisk Tidsskrift.
John F. Haught is Thomas Healey Professor of Theology at Georgetown University. His area of specialization is systematic theology, witha particular interest in issues pertaining to science, cosmology, ecology, and religion. He is the author of Deeper Than Darwin: Evolution and the Question of God (Westview, 2003); Responses to 101 Questions on God and Evolution (Paulist Press, 2001); God After Darwin: A Theology of Evolution (Westview Press, 2000); Science and Religion: From Conflict to Conversation (Paulist Press, 1995); The Promise of Nature: Ecology and Cosmic Purpose (Paulist Press, 1993); Mystery and Promise: A Theology of Revelation (Liturgical Press, 1993); What Is Religion? (Paulist Press, 1990); The Revelation of God in History (Michael Glazier Press, 1988); What Is God? (Paulist Press, 1986); The Cosmic Adventure (Paulist Press, 1984); Nature and Purpose (University Press of America, 1980); Religion and Self-Acceptance (Paulist Press, 1976); and editor of Science and Religion in Search of Cosmic Purpose (Georgetown University Press, 2000) as well as numerous articles and reviews. He lectures often on topics related to religion and science, cosmology, theology, and ecology.
Joanna Hill is Director of Templeton Foundation Press in West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, where she oversees book publishing. She received an A.B. in French from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Masters in Religious Studies from the Academy of the New Church Theological School in Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania. She is the co-author of two books: The Power of Prayer around the World with Glen Mosley (2000), and Words of Gratitude for Mind, Body, and Soul with Robert Emmons (2001). Hill’s career includes a background in scholarly publishing at the University of North Carolina Press, the University of Texas Press, and Louisiana State University Press, where she was production/design manager. She ran her own book design firm for seven years before working in religious publishing at the Jewish Publication Society and the Swedenborg Foundation. She launched the Templeton Foundation Press in 1997. The Press now publishes approximately fifteen books each year in various formats, such as audio and E-books. The Press also runs associated publishing programs, such as the online Science and Religion Bookstore, an online database of the Gifford Lectures, and the development of distance-learning materials for classroom use in science and religion curricula. The Press has won numerous awards for content and design, and sells translation rights to its books worldwide.
Dr. Solomon Katz is director of the Krogman Center for Childhood Growth and Development at the University of Pennsylvania. Katz is also a leading expert on the anthropology of food. His work in the field of science and religion spans 30 years with leadership in the Institute for Religion in an Age of Science (IRAS), in which he served as president from 1981 to 1984, and as associate editor of Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science. Katz is immediate past president of the Metanexus Institute Board of Directors and also serves on the board of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and serves on several committees including 'The Dialogue Between Science and Religion.' He is editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of Food published by Scribners.
Abdul Majid is Assistant Professor & Head of Zoology Department at Government Postgraduate College, Mansehra (Pakistan). Prof. Majid received his B.Sc Degree from Peshawar University, M.Sc in Biology from Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad & M.phil from the same university in Molecular Biology in 1990. He also did M.A in Islamic Studies from the University of Peshawar in 1994. Prof. Majid received many awards at national & international levels. At national level he had been awarded five presidential awards in all Pakistan essay award competition in 1986, 88, 99, 2000 & 2002 on various aspects of Islam & Modern Era. His course titled Islam & Science on Evolution and Creation Had been selected for 2001 Science-religion award. Prof. Majid is also founding chairperson of HSSRD (Hazara Society of Science-Religion Dialogue, www.hssrd.org) & Associate Editor of a quarterly journal Science- religion Dialogue. His Published works include M.Phil Thesis & 16 research articles on various aspects of Islam, biology & on the interrelationship of Islam & science. Prof. Majid has attended a number of national & international conferences. Each of the last two years, he has attended the annual Metanexus workshop. At each of those workshops, on behalf of HSSRD, he has accepted a Local Societies Initiative supplemental grant award.
Robert Mann is the chair of the Physics Department at the University of Waterloo, in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. He has published over 200 refereed articles in scientific journals, supervised more than 30 graduate students, and has given over 150 invited talks. He is an affiliate member of the newly-established Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, and has served on several academic and scientific advisory boards, including two grant selections committees of the Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council of Canada, the Ontario College of Graduate Studies, and the Institute for Quantum Computing. His research interests are in black holes, quantum gravity, particle physics, quantum information, chaotic phenomena, and the relationship between science and religion. He is a Templeton Course Prize winner for his course on "Faith & Science Faith." As president of the Canadian Scientific & Christian Affiliation, he oversees the activities of Canada's only national organization concerned with science/faith issues. He is an active member of First Mennonite Church in Kitchener, Ontario, and lives in Waterloo, Ontario with his wife Nancy, daughter Heather and pets Frisky and Gracie.
Dr. Andrew Newberg, MD is Director of Clinical Nuclear Medicine, Director of NeuroPET Research, and Assistant Professor in the Department of Radiology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Upon graduating from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1993, Dr. Newberg trained in Internal Medicine at the Graduate Hospital in Philadelphia, and subsequently completed a Fellowship in Nuclear Medicine in the Department of Radiology, at the University of Pennsylvania. He is Board-certified in Internal Medicine, Nuclear Medicine, and Nuclear Cardiology. His current research now largely focuses on how brain function is associated with various mental states-in particular, the relationship between brain function and mystical or religious experiences. Dr. Newberg's extensive teaching credentials include leading several stress-management programs for the University of Pennsylvania Health System and teaching the physiological basis of various alternative medicine techniques, the neurophysiology of religious experience and the importance of spirituality in medical practice. He is a co-founder of the Institute for the Scientific Study of Meditation. He has also received a Science and Religion Course Award from CTNS. Dr Newberg has published numerous articles and book chapters and is author, with the late Eugene D'Aquili, of The Mystical Mind (1999) and Why God Won't Go Away (2001). He was also an associate director of the Neuroscience Section for the recent consensus conference on Scientific Research on Spirituality and Health sponsored by the National Institute of Healthcare Research. He serves on the Board of Metanexus Institute.
Basarab Nicolescu is the president of the International Center for Transdisciplinary Research and Studies in Paris. He was born in 1942 in Ploiesti, Romania and received his Ph.D. at Pierre et Marie Curie University, Paris in 1972. He is a specialist in the theory of elementary particle physics. He is the author of more than a hundred articles in leading international scientific journals and has made numerous contributions to science anthologies and several dozen French radio documentaries on science. For many years he has collaborated with with G. F. Chew, former Dean of Physics at the University of California at Berkeley and founder of the Bootstrap Theory. They have jointly published several articles on the topological framework of Bootstrap Theory. Nicolescu is a major advocate of the transdisciplinary reconciliation between Science and the Humanities and is the author of The Manifesto of Transdisciplinarity, State University of New York Press.
Dr. F. David Peat obtained his PhD at Liverpool University and carried out research in theoretical physics at Queens University (Canada) and the National Research Council of Canada. He became a close associate of David Bohm until his death. In addition to scientific research Peat took a deep interest in the approaches of Carl Jung and has given workshop at many Jungian conferences and centers. While in North America, Peat organized a series of circles of Native American Elders and Western Sciences as well as between Artists and Scientists. Peat is also the author of some twenty books exploring scientific ideas, looking at the social implications of science, exploring Jungian ideas and looking at creativity. In 1996 Peat moved to the medieval hilltop village of Pari, near to Siena, where he established a center to run conferences, courses, research projects and host an active program of visitors. The Center’s maxims are "The future has an ancient heart” and "science, spirit and community." In 2002 the Center was chosen by the Metanexus Institute as a grantee of its Local Initiative Program.
Dr. Varadaraja V. Raman received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Physics and Mathematics from the University of Calcutta before doing his doctoral work on the foundations of quantum mechanics at the University of Paris where he worked under Louis de Broglie. He has taught in a number of institutions, including the Saha Institute for Nuclear Physics in Calcutta, the Universite d'Alger in Algiers and the Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, from where, after serving as professor of Physics and Humanities, he has retired as Emeritus Professor. He was associated with the UNESCO as an educational expert. Dr. Raman has also devoted several years to the study and elucidation of Hindu culture and religion. He is an associate editor in the eighteen volume Encyclopedia of Hinduism Project. Dr. Raman has authored scores of papers on the historical, social, and philosophical aspects of physics/science, as well as on India's heritage, and has authored eight books including Scientific Perspectives, Glimpses of Ancient Science and Scientists, Nuggets from the Gita, and Varieties of Science History. Dr. Raman serves on the board of the Metanexus Insitute and is a regular contributor to its online magazine.
Dr. Patricia Rife has developed marketing and communications curriculum/training programs for Sears Financial Services, Georgia Tech, Big Brothers & Sisters of metro Atlanta, hundreds of non-profit clients, and has taught for over 11 universities nationwide. She is currently a Professor in the Graduate Dept. of Technology & Management, University of Maryland, teaching 4 online courses per semester to students around the globe. Author of three books in three different languages, Dr. Rife has been an invited speaker at the Carter Center’s Peace Program; Morehouse College Martin Luther King Jr. Chapel; Women in Film San Francisco; the University of Hawaii, Hilo, Manoa, Maui and Kauai; the American University-Cairo Communications Department; and business ethics programs worldwide. Her online course development includes courses in e-commerce, e-marketing, and marketing high-tech products and services globally. Patricia Rife was a Templeton Lecturer at the University of Hawaii and Leo Baeck Institute, Manhattan, speaking on her book Lise Meitner and the Dawn of the Nuclear Age (Boston: Birkhauser, 1999). A former student of Thomas Kuhn in MIT's "Science, Technology and Society" program, Patricia Rife is an Internet pioneer and online educational consultant for universities around the world.
Martin Rogers is the Co-Director of the Templeton Science and Religion in Schools Project, Oxford, which is the first major project of its kind. He was educated at Heidelberg and Cambridge (Science and History) Universities. After a short period in industry he taught chemistry with some religious studies at Westminster School. He was seconded as Nuffield Research Fellow, the Nuffield O-level Chemistry Project (1962-64) and Salter's Company Fellow, Imperial College London (1969). He was Headmaster of Malvern College (1971-82), Chief Master of King Edward's School, Birmingham (1982-91) and Chairman of the Headmasters Conference in 1987. From 1991-2001 he was Director of the Farmington Institute for Christian Studies at Harris Manchester College, Oxford University where he was an Associate Fellow. There he developed, for teachers of Religious Education, the Farmington Fellowships, the Farmington Millennium Awards and the Farmington Special Needs Awards. Among his publications are John Dalton and the Atomic Theory (1965), Chemistry and Energy (1968), Chemistry: facts, patterns and principles (co-author 1972) and a paper, Francis Bacon and the Birth of Modern Science (1976). He edited the Nuffield O-level Chemistry Sample Scheme (1965), the Foreground Chemistry Series (1968) and the Farmington Papers from 1993-2001. He has written and lectured widely on educational matters, particularly on science education and on issues concerning the claims of science and religions.
G. Parker Rossman is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma (education and communications), the University of Chicago (thesis on the sociology of the university), and Yale University (Ph.D. in higher education). Rossman's current research interest is "the nature and future of the university," and its design as a global learning system for all ages and cultures. He was executive consultant to and the founding vice-president of the Global University project--which conducts global classroom demonstrations to test distance education technologies--of GLOSAS/USA (global systems analysis and simulation). In that capacity and as a member of the board of directors of the University of the World (which had councils in twenty-six countries to bring business, government and higher education together to plan for the future of electronic higher education), he pressed these organizations to focus more on research to solve fundamental human problems. He has been a member of the Columbia University faculty seminar on "computers and society" and is on the board of the journal Innovate, which deals with cutting-edge issues in education. He has taught at Yale, at Central Philippines University, Balamand University in Lebanon, University of Chicago, and has lectured at the Indian Institute of World Culture in Bangalore University of Cambridge, and at the Classical University of Lisbon. He has written a series of books to challenge education in several professions, including After Punishment What?; Hospice: New Models of Care for the Terminally Ill; Family Survival; and Computers: Bridges to the Future. He has presented papers at the World Brain Conference at the University of Calgary in 1997 and at the Global Brain Workshop at the Free University of Brussels in 2001. An article on management of all knowledge is in the April/May 2004 issue of the Futurist and a sequel in the January 2005 issue, on how electronic textbooks can be cheaply provided to the world's poor.
Dr. Pauline Rudd is a University Research Lecturer and Senior Research Fellow in the Glycobiology Institute in the University of Oxford. With her colleagues, she has pioneered the development of novel technology for the rapid, sensitive analysis of sugars attached to glycoproteins. Dr. Rudd has worked in many different biological systems carrying out basic research into glycoproteins involved in heart disease, rheumatoid arthritis, hepatitis, prion diseases, and inflammation. Currently, her particular interest is in the role of glycosylation in antigen recognition in both the cellular and humoral immune systems. She has published over 70 scientific papers and spoken at numerous meetings in the United States, Israel, Japan, Hong Kong, China and Taiwan as well as throughout Eastern and Western Europe. She has recently been privileged to take a short Sabbatical at The Scripps Research Institute in San Diego, CA and is a visiting Professor at Shanghai Medical University. She has been committed to integrating the spiritual and scientific journeys for many years, becoming a lay member of the Community of St. Mary the Virgin, Wantage, Oxfordshire while reading Chemistry at London University. In 1997-8 she was a participant in the 'Science and the Spiritual Quest' programme organised by the Centre for Theology and the Natural Sciences. In 1999/2000 her speaking engagements included the opening lecture at the Chautauqua Institution season, Buffalo, NY, as well as lectures at several colleges and universities in both the United States and England.
John Snyder is Conrad N. Hilton Eminent Scholar in Music Industry Studies at Loyola University in New Orleans, Louisiana. He is involved with creating distance-learning and Web-based-learning materials for the department. He received his B.M.E. from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and J.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. As an independent record producer for over twenty years, he produced nearly 300 recordings, of which 34 were nominated for and five won Grammy Awards. His clients have included A&M, Atlantic, Fantasy, Musicmasters, Concord, RCA, Sony, Antilles, Verve, Private Music, Telarc, GRP, and Elektra, among others. Snyder is the founder and president of the Artists House Foundation, a nonprofit music company dedicated to creating educational presentations, including instruction, master classes, careers, and legendary performers. In addition to his producing career, Snyder has held positions at major recording companies. At CTI Records, Snyder oversaw legal and business affairs, publishing, manufacturing, distribution, and operations. Under the tutelage of Herb Alpert, he served as director of Horizon Jazz Series for A&M Records. Snyder later served as director of jazz production for Atlantic Records, where his responsibilities included production, publicity, and marketing. Snyder is currently a member of the New York Bar.
Esther M. Sternberg , M.D., is the Director of the Integrative Neural-Immune Program and Chief of the Section on Neuroendocrine Immunology and Behavior at the National Institute of Mental Health and National Institutes of Health. She was trained in rheumatology at McGill University and practiced medicine in Montreal before returning to a research career and teaching at Washington University in St. Louis. The winner of the Public Health Service Superior Service Award and President of the International Society for Neuroimmunomodulation, Dr. Sternberg has written over one hundred scientific papers, reviews, and book chapters on the subject of brain-immune connections, including articles in Scientific American and Nature Medicine. She has also co-directed an exhibition about emotions and disease at the National Library of Medicine and lectures nationally and internationally on emotions, health and disease. Sternberg is the author of "The Balance Within. The Science Connecting Health and Emotions" W.H. Freeman, 2000.
G. Tanzella-Nitti (born 1955) took his university degree in Astronomy at the University of Bologna (1977), and his doctorate in Dogmatic Theology, at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Rome, (1991). Italian C.N.R. fellow (1978-1981), he has been appointed Astronomer of the Astronomical Observatory of Turin (1981-1985). He is now Full Professor of Fundamental Theology at the Pontificia Università della Santa Croce in Rome. His fields of interest and research includes Theology of Revelation, theological and philosophical image of God, the dialogue between scientific thought / contemporary culture and Christian religion, the role of University, and the Unity of Knowledge. General Editor of the Interdisciplinary Dictionary on Religion and Science (Dizionario Interdisciplinare di Scienza e Fede), a two-volume Encyclopaedia published by Urbaniana University Press and Città Nuova, Roma 2002 (and partly published in English on the web, thanks to a grant given by the CTNS), he is now the director of the web site Documentazione Interdisciplinare di Scienza e Fede. In April 2002 he received from the European Society for the Study of Science and Theology the award ESSSAT Communication Prize. Among his published books: General Catalogue of Radial Velocity of Galaxies (New York: Gordon and Breach, 1983); Questions in Science and Religious Belief (Tucson: Pachart, 1992); La teologia, annuncio e dialogo (Roma: Armando, 1996); Mistero trinitario ed economia della grazia (Roma: Armando, 1997); Passione per la verità e responsabilità del sapere. Un'idea di università nel magistero di Giovanni Paolo II (Casale Monferrato: Piemme 1998); Teologia e scienza. Le ragioni di un dialogo (Milano: Paoline, 2003).
Dr. John M. Templeton, Jr., serves as president of the John Templeton Foundation, directing all Foundation activities in pursuit of its mission to encourage progress in scientific and religious knowledge. He works closely with the Foundation’s staff and international board of advisors of more than 45 leading scholars, scientists, researchers and theologians to develop substantive programs in this endeavor. Dr. Templeton has been actively involved in the Foundation since its inception in 1987. In 1995, he retired from his medical practice to serve full-time as president of the Foundation. His more than 25-year career as a physician and long-held spiritual beliefs provide both the formal science training and the commitment to advance the Foundation’s work. After receiving a bachelor of arts degree from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, Dr. Templeton earned his medical degree from Harvard Medical School in Boston. He completed his internship and residency in surgery at the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond and subsequently trained in pediatric surgery under Dr. C. Everett Koop at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. After serving two years in the U.S. Navy, he returned to The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in 1977, where he served on the staff as pediatric surgeon and trauma program director. He also served as professor of pediatric surgery at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Templeton was board certified in pediatric surgery and surgical critical care and is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He serves as a board member of the American Trauma Society and as a president of its Pennsylvania division. He is a member of the Cradle of Liberty Council of the Boy Scouts of America, the Board of Trustees of Eastern University, the Session for Proclamation Presbyterian Church, the American Medical Association, the American Pediatric Surgical Association, the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma and the Gallup Institute. He has published numerous papers in medical and professional journals, in addition to two books, A Searcher’s Life and Thrift and Generosity: The Joy of Giving.
Charles Hard Townes, physicist and educator, was educated at Furman University, Duke, and the California Institute of Technology (Ph.D., 1939), was on the technical staff of the Bell Telephone Laboratories (1939–48), and taught at Columbia (1948–59). After serving as vice president and director of research of the Institute for Defense Analyses, Washington, D.C., he was provost of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1961–66). Townes is known for his work on the theory and application of the maser, on which he obtained the fundamental patent, and other work in quantum electronics connected with both maser and laser devices. He was appointed University Professor at the University of California in 1967; in this position Dr. Townes participates in teaching, research, and other activities on several campuses of the University, although he is located at the Berkeley campus. He shared the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics with N. G. Basov and A. M. Prokhorov for contributions to this field. He is the 2005 recipient of the Templeton Prize for Progress Toward Research or Discoveries About Spiritual Realities.
Eric Weislogel, Ph.D., is the Director of the Local Societies Initiative, a $5.1 million grant program designed to foster the science and religion dialogue by building dynamic associations of scholars, clergy, and interested laypeople around the globe. Prior to joining the Metanexus Institute, Weislogel was the manager of business process consulting for UEC Technologies, a unit of United States Steel. Before that, he was assistant professor of philosophy at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and he also taught at St. Francis College (PA) and the Pennsylvania State University. He has published a number of philosophical essays and reviews in such journals as Philosophy Today, Idealistic Studies, Philosophy in Review, and the Journal of the American Academy of Religion. Additionally, his articles have appeared in the online journal Metapsychology, as well as in steel and technology industry trade journals. Weislogel's main philosophical interest consists in the interplay of postmodernism, religion, science, and politics. He and his wife, Kellie Given, who live in Reading, PA, have two children: Elisa, a junior at La Salle University, Philadelphia, and Lucas, a recent graduate of St. Vincent College, Latrobe, PA, majoring in physics education.
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