UAF.(Right Moves)(University of Alaska Foundation)(Doug Reynolds - recipient of the Harold T. Caven Professorship)(Brief article

The University of Alaska Foundation announced Doug Reynolds, professor of economics at the UAF School of Management, as the recipient of the Harold T. Caven Professorship.

The two-year professorship includes a $20,000 award. This award is intended to enable Reynolds to carry out activities and projects designed to enhance the field of business and finance at the University of Alaska beyond those associated with his normal faculty assignments. Some activities and projects proposed by Reynolds include studying Alaska's energy future and creating a book that can explain energy issues and how they will affect Alaska.

Reynolds received his bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Colorado State University and worked as an engineer in the defense industry. He earned his Ph.D. in oil and energy economics in 1994 from the University of New Mexico and spent two years in Khazakstan shortly after the fall of the Soviet Union, where he taught and studied oil energy economics. Reynolds joined the faculty at the UAF in 1997.

This professorship was established in 1974 with a gift from Loretta Caven, widow of Harold T. Caven. Dr. Caven was a longtime Alaskan who first came to the state in 1943 and served as a director and as a vice president of the First National Bank of Anchorage, now First National Bank Alaska.

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