International Grant and Essay Competition
Celebrating the Centenary of the Birth of
Sir John Templeton
A grants and awards program
Led by The University of Chicago
Funded by the John Templeton Foundation
Donald G. York, Program Director
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Yong Wei Chong Gabrielle, Wellesley College, A Letter to My Dearest Newborn Baby Brother
Karl Haislmaier, George Mason University, The Emergence of Complexity in the Universe as Viewed from a Holistic Perspective
Patrick Olden, University of St. Andrews, How can we know the complex?
Annette Hein, Casper College, The Observer's Eye: Human Attitudes are the Other Side of Complexity
Tiffany Wu, Northwestern University, From Star-stuff to Cities: The Two Ingredients Needed for Increasing Complexity in the Universe
Jacob Kelter, Northwestern University, Layers on Layers of Complexity
Brendan Lockhart, University of Maryland-College Park,
A World of Complexity
Yale Michaels, Harvard University, Searching for a Recipe for Cosmological Complexity
Taro Yamaguchi-Phillips, University of California, Berkeley, From Bang to Brain: How Complexity Arises in the Universe
John Zanazzi, Northern Arizona University, Defining Cosmological Complexity
Zequn Li, Charter School of Wilmington, Wilmington, Delaware, Speaking of Stars
Nathan Morris, Claudia Taylor "Ladybird" Johnson High School, San Antonio, Texas, Does Non-Biological Life Exist in the Universe, and if so, what might the Signatures of such Life be?
Anna Thomas, Presentation High School, San Jose, California, The emergence and evolution of evolvability: insight from self-propagating peptides
Akshat Mahajan, The Daly College, Indore – School, India, Can The Question of Extraterrestrial Life Ever Be Resolved?
Cassandra McCormack, Country Day School, San Jose, Costa Rica, Implications of Extraterrestrial Discovery
Elizabeth Mittmann, Palo Alto High School, Palo Alto, California, Alternatives for Life Not as We Know It?
Drew Schaffer, Keystone School, San Antonio, Texas, The Limits of Comprehension: Musings on the Possibilities of Extraterrestrial Life
Edward Wollack, Atholton High School, Columbia, Maryland, Irrational Numbers, the Observable Universe, and Dice: A Discussion of Chance
Amy Cohn, Park Tudor School, Indianapolis, Indiana, New Mythologies: Insights from Structural Anthropology to the Search for Life in the Universe
Kingshuk Dasadhikari, Marist Brothers International School, Kobe Hyogo, Japan, Where Life is Concerned, the Universe Needn’t Mimic Earth
Lia Tan, Laramie Senior High School, Laramie, Wyoming, Getting Ready for the Discovery of Extraterrestrial Life
