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invited for a total of $1. Where possible, researchers are urged to collaborate
across disciplines.templeton.

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Minniti is a lead researcher on the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor
(GEM) project and is a member of the Entrepreneurship Research Consortium., is recognized internationally as a
leader in entrepreneurial management education.babson."
For further information on the Spiritual Capital Research Program,
including submission guidelines for the new granting opportunities , or to
request a program brochure, visit http://www.

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She has published numerous journal articles in entrepreneurship and economics,
and her work has been presented at many national and international
conferences, such as the American Economic Association Meeting, the Academy of
Management Meeting , and the Global Entrepreneurship Research Conference. Deadline for Letters of Intent: April 15, 2005

PHILADELPHIA, A call for proposals for research
in the developing new interdisciplinary field of Spiritual Capital has been
issued by the Metanexus Institute on Religion and Science.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20050324/PHTH031LOGO)
Letters of Intent for projects in the Spiritual Capital Research Program
are due no later than April 15, 2005. "It is
no longer unusual to consider that trust, behavioral norms and religion
profoundly shape economic, political and social developments . A membership
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Babson's Minniti Receives NSF Fellowship for Entrepreneurship

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mathematics, computer science and the social sciences, NSF is the major source
of federal backing. Grants of $150,000
per project are made possible by generous funding from the John Templeton
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The Spiritual Capital Research Program seeks to integrate the concept of
spiritual capital into the social sciences, with particular attention to
building connections to economics, and to develop a network of scholars for a
new field of study.
Note: These $150,000 grants are in addition to the three founding grants
of $500,000 each that were recently awarded to initiate the Spiritual Capital
Research Program.

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The NSF application requires ongoing
scholarly cooperation between the distinguished fellow and at least one CWRU
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"Now seems an ideal time to understand and assess the public effects of
spiritual and religious action because there seems to be a growing openness in
the social sciences towards non-material factors ," says Kimon Sargeant, Ph. Metanexus is
a leader in a growing network of individuals and groups exploring the dynamic
interface between cosmos, nature, and culture in communities and on campuses
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Babson College in Wellesley, Mass.

The Metanexus Institute advances scientific research, education and
outreach on the constructive engagement of science and religion.metanexus.

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, Babson College economics and
entrepreneurship professor Maria Minniti has been named a Distinguished Fellow
of the National Science Foundation (NSF) to work on entrepreneurship and
population dynamics.
This news release was issued on behalf of Newswise(TM).D.net/spiritual_capital
or contact project manager Christopher Stawski at
SpiritualCapital@metanexus. Projects include the Local
Societies Initiative, the Templeton Research Lectures, and topical
interdisciplinary research projects such as the Spiritual Transformation
Scientific Research Program, Spiritual Capital Research Program, Foundational
Questions in Physics and Cosmology, as well as studies in religion and health,
religion and human flourishing, and other endeavors.

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WELLESLEY, Mass.
A grant awarded to Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), where Minniti's
co-author Moren Levesque is on faculty, allows them to host one scholar per
year as a NSF Distinguished Fellow.,
Director for Research and Programs in the Human Sciences at Metanexus.