Recent Grants
John Templeton Foundation awards $5.2M to STH’s Steven Sandage to Shift Mental Health Focus Beyond Symptoms to Meaning and Well-Being
Sandage, the Albert and Jessie Danielsen Professor of Psychology of Religion & Theology, and his team recently received a $5.2 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation to fund an initiative on training psychotherapists to incorporate these ideas and new training and treatment research into their practices. Led by Sandage and Jesse Owen, More
BU Center for Brain Recovery (CBR) partnering with the National Aphasia Association on PCORI Awarded Research
CBR team members Dr. Swathi Kiran and Madeline Dunne will be providing infrastructural support to conduct this research in coordination with project lead Maura Silverman, Executive Director of the NAA, and fellow collaborator Dr. Jacqueline Hinckley, from NSU.
Diana Anderson, Assistant Professor of Neurology, Receives Grant to Improve Resident Health in Nursing Homes
Diana Anderson, MD, M.Arch, assistant professor of neurology at the Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, has received a $270,418 grant from the Patrick and Catherine Weldon Donaghue Medical Research Foundation for her project “Investigating the Relationship between Nursing Home Architecture and Health Outcomes.” The two-year grant is through the... More
School of Theology receives $1M from Lilly Endowment to launch “New Wineskins Network”
The five-year initiative, co-led by Rev. Dr. Anastasia Kidd and Dr. Chad D. Moore, will strengthen partnerships among local congregations, clergy, and seminary leaders, addressing contemporary challenges facing pastors and seminarians while developing new models of ministry formation.
Ann McKee, Distinguished Professor of Neurology and Pathology, receives Zenith Fellows Award
The prestigious $450,000 award from the Alzheimer's Association comes in support of Dr. McKee's acceleration of research on CTE and dementia.