Five UNLV professors who have been awarded the 1997-98 UNLV Distinguished Teaching Award will be honored at the Honors Convocation on April 28.
The award recipients are psychology professor Russell Hurlburt, associate professor of management Daniel McAllister, accounting lecturer Suzanne Sevalstad, anthropology professor John Swetnam, and associate professor of curriculum and instruction Martha Young.
Hurlburt, who joined the psychology department faculty in 1976, has received several awards and honors during his tenure at UNLV, including the William Morris Award for Excellence in Scholarship. He has authored or co-authored nearly 30 books, journal articles, and book chapters, including a textbook titled, "Comprehending Behavioral Statistics." Hurlburt has presented more than 25 conference papers on a variety of subjects, including the inner experience of schizophrenics and the nature of consciousness.
Hurlburt is a member of several professional associations, such as the American Psychological Association and the Rocky Mountain Psychological Association.
McAllister has taught at UNLV since 1982 and has received a dozen teaching awards in that time, including the CSUN Top Instructor Award and the Spanos Distinguished Teaching Award. He has written 15 articles in management journals and presented numerous conference papers.
As a consultant, he has assisted several businesses throughout the country in implementing programs to foster management development. McAllister teaches principles of management and organizational behavior, as well as electives in management at the master's level.
Sevalstad joined the UNLV accounting department in 1979. She has received more than 25 awards and honors, including five Distinguished Teacher Awards in the College of Business and Economics. She is also the only two-time recipient of the Spanos Distinguished Teaching Award.
A member of the cooperative learning panel of the American Accounting Association for two years, Sevalstad holds memberships with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Institute of Management Accountants, and the American Accounting Association. She currently serves as coordinator of the elementary accounting program in her department and as chair of the UNLV Department of Accounting Scholarship Committee.
Swetnam, who has taught anthropology at UNLV since 1973, has received a number of honors and scholastic awards, including two fellowships with the National Endowment for the Humanities.
He has written more than 10 journal articles and presented 20 conference papers. His fields of expertise include economic anthropology, economic development, and agricultural change. Swetnam is currently conducting research in Antigua and Huehuetenango, Guatemala, on the marketplace and agricultural change.
Young has been with the curriculum and instruction department at UNLV since 1986. The author of more than 30 publications, including journal articles, books, reports, and reviews, Young has also presented or co-presented more than 50 papers on a variety of subjects, such as educating and communicating with individuals studying English as a second language.
She has received many awards and honors, including the Distinguished Women in Southern Nevada Award and the UNLV Extended Education Faculty Award of Excellence. Young serves on the editorial boards of both "The English Journal" and "National Forum: The Phi Kappa Phi Journal."
Recipients of the Distinguished Teaching Award receive a cash award of $5,000.
The Honors Convocation is scheduled for 10 a.m. April 28 in the Artemus W. Ham Concert Hall.
For information regarding the convocation, call Andy Fry, executive assistant to the president and this year's convocation coordinator, at 895-3270.
