Five professors have been named as the recipients of this year's UNLV Distinguished Teaching Awards.
The professors are Thomas Boyt of marketing, Kate Hausbeck of sociology, Sean Lane of psychology, Steven Parker of political science, and Richard Tandy of kinesiology.
The awards, which were presented at the UNLV Honors Convocation earlier this month, carry with them cash awards of $5,000 each.
Boyt, a member of the UNLV faculty since 1994, is an assistant professor of marketing. He is the co-author of numerous scholarly articles on topics such as "Fostering Esprit de Corps in Marketing," "Building Loyal Relationships with Physicians," and "Obstetrical Care and Patient Loyalty." He currently is involved in several research projects, including some dealing with marketing the fine arts and marketing the arts specifically to older adults. He holds a doctoral degree in business from the University of Oklahoma and a doctor of veterinary medicine degree from Colorado State University.
An assistant professor of sociology, Hausbeck has been on the UNLV faculty since 1995. Her areas of research include contemporary, postmodern, feminist, and classical theory, gender studies, and sociology of sexuality/sex industry. Among her publications are writings on "Girls of Grit and Glitter in the City of Women: Las Vegas as Playground of Paradox," "Prostitution -- Nevada," and "Inside Nevada's Brothel System." Hausbeck, who earned both her doctoral and master's degrees in sociology from the State University of New York at Buffalo, won an excellence in teaching award from that university during the 1991-92 academic year.
A member of the UNLV faculty since 1995, Lane is an assistant professor of psychology and director of the university's memory and cognition laboratory. He also is a consulting editor of Memory and Cognition. Among the topics of his scholarly writings have been "Confusing Real and Suggested Memories: A Source Monitoring Approach to Eyewitness Suggestibility" and "Approaches to Understanding Eyewitness Memory." In 1999, he was awarded the William Morris Teaching Award by UNLV's College of Liberal Arts. He earned a doctoral degree and a master's degree in experimental psychology, both from Kent State University.
Parker, associate professor of political science, has been at UNLV since 1979. He specializes in the field of ecotourism, studying developing nations and the decisions they are making involving ecotourism. His 1998 sabbatical was spent doing field research in Australia and Papua New Guinea. In Papua New Guinea, he studied ways that country is attempting to foster ecotourism and thus preserve its natural resources. He earned both a master's degree in public administration and a doctoral degree from the State University of New York in Albany.
Richard Tandy, associate professor of kinesiology and interim associate dean of the College of Health Sciences, has been on the UNLV faculty since 1989. His professional interests include research design and statistics, measurement and evaluation, computer applications in higher education, and motor behavior. Tandy, who earned both a doctoral degree in kinesiology/measurement and evaluation and a master's degree in kinesiology from Texas A & M University, was selected for the 1998-99 Outstanding Teacher Award from UNLV's College of Health Sciences.
