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2004 Ted Mills Award for Outstanding Environmental Teaching
Dr. Lowell Caneday is a professor of the Leisure Studies Department in the College of Education. He has written more than 24 national or international publications, 18 state and regional publications, and 54 research reports while here at OSU. He has also received a total of $ 2,400,000 in grants since 1981 for his work in state and national parks.
Dr. Caneday's teaching has taken him from Cedar Lake to Stillwater Parks, Events and Recreation Department. He has developed interpretive programs for campers and visitors, environmental outreach programs that target school age children, and outdoor educational programs for Forest Service personnel. He has coordinated educational programs on "recreational impact" with local schools associated with the Illinois River, and helped to plan a local nature center. Dr. Caneday's teaching philosophy includes educational activities which reveal meaning through first hand experience. He also indicates that teaching is personal relations, revelation, art, provocation, and presenting the whole while understanding the maturity of the audience, and the learning style of the individual.