<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pre-go-live-resources/_migration/2026-07-29/westmont-news/grants-fund-research-faith-science.html" dsn="news"><pubDate>12/14/2007</pubDate><title>Grants Fund Research on Faith, Science</title><excerpt>Westmont biology professor Jeffrey Schloss has been awarded two grants to research complex issues related to science and faith. Westmont is one of 20 institutions awarded a $20,000 Science and Transcendence Advanced Research Series (STARS) grant. Schloss will study the effects of religious worship on the human bonding hormone, oxytocin. The grant from the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences (CTNS) allows Westmont to work with professors from three other research institutions on “Organic Embodiment of Transcendent Moral Commitments.”</excerpt><author>Westmont</author><image>
            
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