2009-10 Faculty Senate Members > CABNR
Maureen Kilkenny
Term Expires: May 2011
Phone: 784-6785
Website: website
Email: kilkenny@unr.edu
Brief Bio: Professor Maureen Kilkenny specializes in rural economic development in the Resource Economics Department in CABNR. She came to UNR in 2005 after eighteen years on the economics faculties of the Iowa State, University of Colorado-Boulder, and Penn State Universities. She has authored over fifty publications, and earned the 'Outstanding Researcher of 2000' award from the national scholarly association in her field. She has been principal investigator on over $1 million of externally-funded social science research. She is a highly-rated teacher who has taught thousands and mentored hundreds of award-winning graduate and undergraduate students. She actively serves the public, the profession, and her institution, for example, by participating on 'Blue-Ribbon' state and local policy panels; providing testimony to U.S. Congress; chairing and serving on boards of the national associations in her field, serving on numerous editorial boards, and reviewing proposals for nationally-competitive funding. Since arriving in 2005 she has served UNR as a member of the "UNR Faculty Evaluation Process" committee 2006-7; "UNR Institutional Review Process" committee, 2007-8; CABNR's Personnel Committee, 2008-date; and the department's Undergrad Program Coordinator, 2006-date, among a variety of other service activities.
Tom Harris
Term Expires:
May 2010
Phone: (775) 784-1681
Email: harris@cabnr.unr.edu
Brief Bio: Dr. Thomas R. Harris is Chair and Professor in the Department of Resource Economics, State Extension Specialist in Rural Community Development, and Director of the University Center for Economic Development at the University of Nevada. Dr. Harris is a Foundation Professor at UNR.
Dr. Harris received a Ph.D. in agricultural economics from Oklahoma State University, Masters in agricultural economics at Texas Tech University, and Bachelors of Business Administration in economics and finance at the University of Texas at Arlington. Dr. Harris has been on the University of Nevada, Reno faculty since 1981. His research and extension focus has been in regional economics, rural development and impact analysis. Dr. Harris has conducted numerous impact studies to derive impacts to rural Nevada economies from changes in public lands management, surface water reallocations, and new industrial developments. Dr. Harris has also developed methodologies to estimate population thresholds necessary for selected commercial sector activities and has developed fiscal models for rural Nevada counties.