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 Queen's 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
Queen's 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