The recipients for the summer of 2001 are:

• Dr. Jack Burns - "Chaos Theory and Leadership" This research project is a continuation of a program of study on teaching leadership theory. The project aims to forward a comprehensible, user-firendly explanation of chaos theory as it relates to leadership and to suggest a pedagogical model fo teaching the theory. Chaos theory challenges major presuppositional positions of traditional leadership theory. This project also will explore some of the theological implications of this challenge and proposes dissemination in a scholarly, Christian journal.
  
  
• Dr. David Holt - "The Veil Revisited: What Relative Intermarriage Rates May Tell Us About the Causes and Status of Black-White Relations" This research project seeks to contribute to the current debate on the causes and status of Black-White relations today by examiing relative intermarriage rates between the nation's major ethnic groups. While the literature of race politics focuses on three broader categories of explanation for continuing Black-White tension -- social-structural, cultural, and social-psychological -- the wide discrepancy in out-marriage rates between African-Americans and these other groups suggests a prior explanation/indicator that places prevailing views in the role of symptom rather than cause. This may help explain the persistence of tense relations between Blacks and Whites and offer policy implications for both church and state.
  
  
• Dr. Gerald Sittser - "Spiritual Roots" This research project involves foundational research for a book on historical models of spirituality. The book will be anchored in the gospel, informed by history, and relevant to the world of the reader. The project will develop fifteen models of spirituality to use as a resource to provide understandable and livable models of spirituality that will be accessible to educated lay Christians in America who are eager to deepen their faith.

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