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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

DATE: Oct. 15, 2002

Contact: Anthony Flott

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2000 Alumni Outstanding Teaching Award

(OMAHA, NE) — The University of Nebraska at Omaha Alumni Association presented its fourth annual Alumni Outstanding Teaching Awards today to eight faculty members. The awards, presented at the end of Honors Week, were established in 1997 to honor distinguished teaching in the classroom.

 

“These awards are expressions of the alumni body’s collective recognition of the importance and value of instruction in higher education,” said Kathy Olson, the association’s chairman of the board. “Faculty members such as these inspire classrooms and make positive, meaningful differences in the lives of UNO students. We’re fortunate to have such outstanding teachers on our campus.”

 

Each recipient was chosen by a committee of peers in each college and received a $1,000 award. Olson will presented the awards during the Faculty Honors and Awards Convocation Breakfast in the Milo Bail Student Center.

 

Professors receiving Alumni Outstanding Teaching Awards:

 

John Bartle, Public Administration, College of Public Affairs and Community Service; Richard Duggin, Writer’s Workshop, College of Fine Arts; Michael Hilt, Communication, College of Arts and Sciences; Gary Krause, Civil Engineering, College of Engineering and Technology; Darryll Lewis, Financing, Banking and Law, College of Business Administration; Laura Schulte, Educational Administration and Supervision, College of Education; Robert Shuster, Geography/Geology, Arts and Sciences; Paulus J.A. van Vliet, Quantitative Analysis, College of Information Science and Technology.

 

Bartle, an associate professor of public administration, was appointed to his post in 1994. His teaching and research are focused on public finance, budgeting and state and local government. He earned his doctorate from Ohio State University after earning his master’s from the University of Texas at Austin and his bachelor’s from Swarthmore College.

 

Duggin, who has a bachelor’s degree from the University of New Hampshire and a master’s from the University of Iowa, has taught creative writing for more than 20 years. He is widely published and has received numerous awards, including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.

 

Hilt has taught at UNO since 1993 and now is an associate professor focusing on broadcast communication. In 1997 he published “Television News and the Elderly: Broadcast Managers’ Attitudes Toward Older Adults.” Hilt has bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Kansas and earned his Ph.D in the interdepartmental area of Community and Human Resources from the University of Nebraska in 1994.

 

Krause’s interests include earthquake engineering, design and behavior of steel structures and design and behavior of prestressed masonry. He earned a Ph.D from the University of Michigan in 1990 and bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Cincinnati.

 

Lewis, an associate professor, joined the UNO faculty in 1987, earning tenure in 1994. His research interests include workers’ compensation, anti-discrimination laws, sports law, international law (particularly Africa) and the legal implications of disease. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College in 1975 and his JD from Creighton University in 1978.

 

Schulte is an assistant professor of Educational Administration and Supervision. She is a UNO graduate, earning her master’s degree from the university in 1980 after earning a bachelor’s from Iowa State in 1976. In 1990 she earned her Ph.D from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.

 

Shuster’s research interests include mineralogy, petrology and geochemistry. He earned his doctorate in 1985 from the University of Kansas, where he also earned his master’s degree. He has a bachelor’s degree from St. Lawrence University in 1976.

 

van Vliet received his Ph.D in Management Information Systems from Oklahoma State University in 1994. His research interests are in information systems architecture, computer-supported collaborative work and multimedia-based instruction and teaching. Teaching interests include systems analysis and design and decision support.

 

The Alumni Outstanding Teaching Awards further the association’s mission, established upon its founding in 1913, “To concentrate the divided efforts of the graduates into one unit in order to work more proficiently for the upbuilding of the school and to promote, as far as possible, the activities of the school.”

 

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