The D.B. Reinhart Institute for Ethics in Leadership has awarded four Viterbo faculty members with research fellowships for the 2016–17 academic year. The recipients and research project titles:

• Jennifer Anderson-Meger, social work, and Pamela Dixon, business, “Creating Awareness of the Role of Personal Epistemology in Managerial Decision Making”
• Elizabeth Marzoni, English, “Dispatch the Weather”
• Michael Parker, psychology, “A Social Psychological Analysis of the Moralization of Political Identification in the United States”

Recipients of the fellowship are named “Fellows of the D.B. Reinhart Institute for Ethics in Leadership.”

The purpose of the research fellowships is to increase the amount and quality of research conducted at Viterbo University related to ethics in leadership. It is expected that award recipients will produce publishable research that is also relevant to courses taught by the faculty member in existing or proposed programs.