2023-24 Teaching Awards Celebration

Thursday, October 3, 2024

4:30 pm, Grant Hall

Celebrating Queen’s community members who have recently received teaching awards, including the Principal’s Teaching and Learning Awards, and highlighting the importance of teaching at Queen’s.

 

Speaking Program

Welcome and Opening Remarks

  • Gavan Watson, Vice-Provost, Teaching and Learning
  • Patrick Deane, Principal and Vice-Chancellor

Alma Mater Society (AMS) Awards

  • Owen Rocchi, AMS President

Society of Graduate & Professional Students (SGPS) Awards

  • Emils Matiss, SGPS President

Principal’s Teaching and Learning Awards

  • Patrick Deane, Principal and Vice-Chancellor

School of Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs (SGSPA) Awards

  • Fahim Quadir, Vice-Provost and Dean, School of Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs

Keynote: Chancellor A. Charles Baillie Teaching Award

  • Professor Jennifer Kennedy, Department of Art History and Art Conservation

University-Wide Teaching Awards

Awarded for 2023-24 unless specified otherwise

Frank Knox Award for Excellence in Teaching

Mariam Guizani, Electrical and Computer Engineering

 

Christopher Knapper Award 

Fall: Samsoor Akberzai, Continuing Medical Education

Winter: Matthew Fishman, Biomedical & Molecular Science

 

Undergraduate Research Mentorship Award

Fall: Anthea Fitz-James, Film and Media

Winter: Kevin De France, Chemical Engineering

Teaching Assistant/Teaching Fellow Excellence Award

Hebatalla Ouda, School of Computing

 

John G. Freeman Faculty Excellence Award

Christopher Omelon, Geography and Planning

 

International Student Scholarship Award

Leila Pujal, Chemistry

Award for Excellence in Graduate Supervision

Asha Varadharajan, English

Heidi-Lynn Ploeg, Mechanical Engineering

Chancellor A. Charles Baillie Teaching Award

Jennifer Kennedy, Art History

Principal’s Alumni Award for Engaging Students as Partners in Learning

in partnership with the Queen’s University Alumni Association

burcu habibe baba, Gender Studies and Cultural Studies

 

Principal’s Indigenous Education Award

in partnership with the Office of Indigenous Initiatives

Jamaica Cass, Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine

Brittany Pratt, Educational Developer of Indigenous Curriculum and Ways of Knowing, Queen’s Health Sciences

 

Principal’s Educational Technology Award

in partnership with Information Technology Services

Student Academic Success Services (SASS), Student Affairs

Susan Korba, Director

Ian Garner, Manager (Outreach)

Leslie Paterson, Manager (1:1 Programs)

Lindsay Heggie, Academic Skills and Writing Specialist

Alyssa Foerstner, Academic Skills Support Coordinator (EAL)

Lydia Skulstad, Intercultural Academic Support Coordinator

Johanna Amos, (Academic Skills and Writing Specialist)

Mikayla Sebesta, Outreach and Peer Programs Coordinator

Gail Eaton-Smith, Academic Skills and Writing Specialist

Greg Hicks, Academic Skills and Writing Specialist

Ana Norris, Departmental Assistant

 

Principal’s Educational Leadership Award

in partnership with the Centre for Teaching and Learning

Mala Joneja, Professor and the Division Chair, Department of Medicine

 

Principal's Globally Engaged Education Innovation Award

in partnership with the Vice Provost, Global Engagement

Dunin-Deshpande Queen’s Innovation Centre (DDQIC) Team for their Jim Leech Mastercard Foundation Fellowship on Entrepreneurship (JL MCF)

Greg Bavington, Executive Director

Jim McLellan, Academic Director

Joanna Tinus, Program and Community Manager

Chloe Beisheim, Program and Outreach Manager

Megan Sieroka, International Programs Manager

Virginia Sytsma, Program Coordinator

Paige Kasaboski, Finance and Operations Coordinator

Bruna Guarino Moraes, Program Coordinator

 

Principal’s Promoting Student Inquiry Teaching Award

in partnership with ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ Library

Ian Fanning, Languages, Literatures and Cultures and Department of Global Development Studies

Faculty and School Teaching Awards

Awarded for 2023-24 unless specified otherwise

Biology Innovation in Teaching Award

Susan Yates

 

Biology Excellence in Teaching Award

Ian Chin-Sang

 

Biology Award for Excellence (Demonstrators)

Allen Tian

 

Biology Departmental Student Council Award for Excellence in Teaching

Paul Grogan

 

¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ Economics Department Undergraduate Teaching Prize

Ian Keay

 

Gender Studies Teaching Award

2022 – 2023: Ayca Tomac

2021 – 2022: Kendall Witaszek

 

Geography DSC Award for Excellence in Teaching Assistance

Rachel Barber

 

Julian Szeicz Award for Excellence in Teaching (Geography and Planning)

Elizabeth Nelson

 

Geoff Lockwood Award for Excellence in Teaching Physics

2022-23: Jordan Morelli

 

Excellence in Instruction in the Engineering Physics Program

2022-23: Aaron Vincent

 

Excellence in Instruction in Pure Physics

2022-23: Sarah Sadavoy

 

Graduate Teaching in Psychology

Jeffrey Wammes

 

Teaching Assistant Prize in Psychology

Colleen Pearce

 

Undergraduate Teaching Award in Psychology

David Hauser

 

Excellence in Teaching Assistance, School of Computing

Katherine Williams

 

Howard Staveley Teaching Award, School of Computing

Randy Ellis

 

School of Environmental Studies Student's Choice Professor of the Year Award

Ryan Danby

 

School of Environmental Studies Student's Choice Teaching Assistant Award

Giorgia Reeves

 

Health Studies Award for Excellence in Teaching

Mary Louise Adams

 

Health Studies Award for Excellence in Teaching Assistance

Alyssa Comfort

 

PHEKSA Award for Excellence in Teaching

Luc Martin

 

PHEKSA Award for Excellence in Teaching Assistance

Stuart Mladen

Golden Apple Award

Holly Ogden

 

Rose A. Freeman Memorial Award

Haley Marando

Stanley M. Corbet Award for Excellence in Teaching (Full-Time Faculty)

2022-23: Robert Yalden                               

 

Stanley M. Corbet Award for Excellence in Teaching (Sessional Instructor)

2022-23: Debra Haak

Health Sciences Education Award

Aws Almufleh, Department of Medicine    

 

PARO Excellence in Clinical Teaching Award

Sarah Foohey, Emergency Medicine                      

 

PARO Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching by a Resident

Sergiy Shatenko, Anaesthesiology              

 

Resident Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching

Christopher Vizena, Obstetrics and Gynaecology 

 

Ron Wigle Mentorship Award

Jocelyn Garland, Obstetrics and Gynaecology       

 

W. Ford Connell Award for Excellence in Teaching

Michelle Gibson, Medicine

David  Holland, Medicine    

Debra  Hamer, Psychiatry    

 

The Dr. D Laurence Wilson Award

Danielle Kain, Palliative Care        

 

School of Nursing

Reddick Award for Excellence in Nursing Education

Kristen Bolton                                   

 

Nursing '84 Award for Excellence in Clinical Teaching

2022–23: Jennie McNichols

2023-24: Julie Bomba

 

School of Rehabilitation Therapy

Blue Star Award for Teaching Excellence: Physical Therapy Program

2022-23: Avery Michels        

 

Blue Star Award for Teaching Excellence: Occupational Therapy Program

2022-23: Sandra Fucile

 

Blue Star Award for Teaching Excellence: Occupational Therapy Program

2022-23 Nicole Bobbette     

   

Commerce '89 Professor-Student Life Award

Greg Libitz

 

Commerce Society Teaching Award

Jim Hamilton

 

Executive MBA Instructor of the Year Award (Queen’s Executive MBA)

Erin Webster

 

Executive MBA America’s (Cornell- Queen’s partnership)

Shai Dubey

 

Executive MBA Instructor of the Year Award (Accelerated Business)

Barry Cross

 

Smith MBA at Queen’s Instructor of the Year Award

Len Anderson

 

Masters of Finance Instructor of the Year Award

Louis Gagnon

 

Master of Management Analytics Instructor of the Year Award

Stephen Thomas

Applied Science First Year Teaching and Learning Award

Fall: Alan Ableson, Mechanical and Materials Engineering          

Winter: Sarah Sadavoy, Physics, Engineering Physics and Astronomy    

Winter: David Patch, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering (RMCC)

 

Innovation in Teaching Award

Jianbing Ni, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Brian Frank, Electrical and Computer Engineering

 

Leadership in Teaching Award

Muhammad Alam, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Scott Parent, Chemical Engineering

 

Education Catalyst Award, Chemical Engineering

Aldo Emmanuel González López

 

Civil Engineering Teaching Assistant Award

Fall: Jacob Yager and Russell Jackson                     

Winter: Paramon Koutorjeski and Natalie Niro

 

Civil Engineering Teaching Award

2nd year: Xiaying Xin

3rd year: Colin MacDougall

4th year: Joshua Woods

 

Electrical and Computer Engineering, Professor of the Year

Il-Min Kim, 2nd year (Electrical)

Naraig Manjikian, 2nd Year (Computing)

Al Freundorfer, 3rd year (Electrical)

Thomas Dean, 3rd year (Computing)

Sean Whitehall, 4th Year (Electrical)

Sean Whitehall, 4th Year (Computing)

 

Electrical and Computer Engineering, Teaching Assistant of the Year

Bryony Schonewille

Sayed Moslem Shokrolahi

Marufa Yeasmin Mukta

Omidreza Bagheri

 

Engineering Society Golden Pillar Award

Joshua Marshall, Electrical and Computer Engineering

 

Engineering Society Golden Apple Award

Jean Hutchinson, Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering

Fady Alajaji, Mathematics and Statistics

Ryan Grant, Electrical and Computer Engineering

 

Mechanical Engineering Club Bronze Wrench

Erik Ridings, Mechanical and Materials Engineering

 

Mechanical Engineering Club Silver Wrench

Francesco Ambrogi, Mechanical and Materials Engineering