Francisco Güell, researcher of the group 'Mind-brain' of the Institute for Culture and Society (ICS) of the University of Navarra, has received the scholarship Oxford Templeton Visiting Fellowships to Latin America for a 4-month research stay at the Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla (UPAEP), in Mexico. This financial aid, endowed with 15,000 dollars, is one of the four that, so far, the Templeton Foundation has awarded for 2016.

Güell, invited by Professor Héctor Velázquez, will stay in Mexico between February and June 2016. During his stay, he will be able to interact with students and professors through different courses, seminars and symposia at UPAEP. In addition, he will contribute to different publications and a joint project of research between researchers from UPAEP and the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), in the Mexican capital.

The scholarship Oxford Templeton Visiting Fellowships to Latin America, coordinated by the Ian Ramsey Center for Science and Religion and funded by the John Templeton Foundation, is awarded with the goal to encourage Latin American universities to invite scholars from other regions of the world to visit their institution for joint research on the interaction between science, theology and Philosophy. 

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In addition to Güell, three other researchers have been recognized as Oxford Templeton Visiting Fellows. Karl W. Giberson, from Stonehill College in Easton, Massachusetts (USA), was vice president of the BioLogos Foundation and in 2013 gave the II Mariano Artigas Memorial Lecture organized by the CRYF at the University of Navarra. Giberson will visit the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo and the Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná in Brazil. Dirk Evers holds the Chair of Systematic Theology at the Martin Luther Universität in Halle Wittenberg (Germany) and is the current president of the European Society for the Study of Science and Theology (ESSSAT). Evers will visit the Universidad del Rosario in Colombia. Finally, William E. Carroll, Research Fellow at Blackfrais and professor at School of Theology at Oxford University, will visit the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

This scholarship is intended to foster engagement between students and researchers from Latin American universities and academics from other parts of the world, and it is hoped that after the research stay long-term academic partnership relationships will be established deadline between the centers.