The latest incoming class of fellows for the Sinai and Synapses Fellowship now includes a computer science professor, a spiritual care coordinator, biology professor, rabbi and an ethicist.

This 15-strong group will be seeking out models for productive conversation surrounding religion and science through 2021 and were just named by the group founded by Rabbi Geoffrey A. Mitelman, who is incubating the group at Clal The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership.

The fellowship, however, is interfaith and is designed to encourage curiosity and the creation of new questions to explore in religion and science. According to the groups website, the fellows engage in their own communities and create meaningful content that includes podcasts such as: Down the Wormhole and More Light, Less Heat series.

One of this years fellows, Kristel Clayville, plans to work on something public-facing possibly in the form of a podcast focused on religion, science and technology. Clayville is the acting director of the Zygon Center for Religion and Science at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, as well as a senior fellow at the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago. She currently works as a chaplain and ethicist at the University of Chicago Medical Center and focuses on the existential and spiritual issues facing organ transplant patients. She has also done work at the intersection between environmental ethics and bioethics to study the green burial movement.

Here are the rest of this years fellows and some of the experience they bring to the fellowship:

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Susan is an author with a long-time interest in religion and science. She currently edits Covalence, the Lutheran Alliance for Faith, Science and Technologys online magazine. She has written articles in The Lutheran and the Zygon Center for Religion and Science newsletter. Susan is a board member for the Center for Advanced Study of Religion and Science, the supporting organization for the Zygon Center and the Zygon Journal. She also co-wrote Our Bodies Are Selves with Dr. Philip Hefner and Dr. Ann Pederson.

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