OGDEN, Utah – Weber State University economics professor Clifford Nowell has been named the 2010 John S. Hinckley Fellow, while WSU’s Sticks and Stones Project team is the 2010 Exemplary Collaboration Award winner.
Nowell, who also serves as the associate dean for faculty development in the John B. Goddard School of Business & Economics, has taught economics at WSU since 1988. He has been described as a “successful teacher in any setting” with an “innate ability to make difficult subjects more accessible and understandable for students.”
He recently established an international economics program that recruits students throughout the world to earn an economics degree from WSU. Part of this program includes a partnership with Shanghai Normal University in China, where he has guest taught for four years.
Utah Business Magazine also recently recognized Nowell as a green pioneer for his work with sustainable business curriculum.
Since 1991, the Hinckley Award has been bestowed upon a member of the WSU faculty who has excelled in teaching, scholarship and service. The award is named in honor of Ogden businessman and WSU supporter John S. Hinckley, who died in 1990.
The university’s Sticks and Stones Project team received the 2010 Exemplary Collaboration Award, in recognition of the teamwork demonstrated by graphic design students and faculty from WSU, the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Northeastern University and San Francisco State University.
The project focuses on helping design students understand the basis of stereotypes and how they influence prejudice. The project, which began in 2005, included students from the four schools attending a three-day seminar in Los Angeles in 2006. This summer, the Sticks and Stones Project will meet with graphic designers from around the globe in Berlin to discuss issues such as immigration, stereotyping and racism.
The university will formerly recognize the recipients of both awards at a luncheon on March 23.
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- Contact:
- Michael Vaughan, provost801-626-6006 • mvaughan@weber.eduClifford Nowell, economics professor801-626-6488 • cnowell@weber.eduMark Biddle, visual arts professor, Sticks and Stones Project coordinator801-626-6457 • mbiddle@weber.edu
- Travis Clemens, assistant director of Media Relations801-626-7948 • travisclemens@weber.edu