Institute for Biomedical Engineering / en Teaching assistants, course instructor recognized with Teaching Excellence Awards /celebrates/teaching-assistants-course-instructor-recognized-teaching-excellence-awards <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Teaching assistants, course instructor recognized with Teaching Excellence Awards</span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-type/teaching" hreflang="en">Teaching</a></div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>rahul.kalvapalle</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2024-07-03T11:21:37-04:00" title="Wednesday, July 3, 2024 - 11:21" class="datetime">Wed, 07/03/2024 - 11:21</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-people field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-people/students" hreflang="en">Students</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-campus field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-campus/mississauga" hreflang="en">Mississauga</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-campus/st-george" hreflang="en">St. George</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-campus/scarborough" hreflang="en">Scarborough</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/department-chemistry" hreflang="en">Department of Chemistry</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/department-english" hreflang="en">Department of English</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/department-sociology" hreflang="en">Department of Sociology</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/faculty-applied-science-engineering" hreflang="en">Faculty of Applied Science &amp; Engineering</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/faculty-arts-science" hreflang="en">Faculty of Arts &amp; Science</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/institute-biomedical-engineering" hreflang="en">Institute for Biomedical Engineering</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/teaching-excellence-awards" hreflang="en">Teaching Excellence Awards</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/u-t-mississauga" hreflang="en">U of T Mississauga</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/women-gender-studies-institute" hreflang="en">Women &amp; Gender Studies Institute</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-image-orientation field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">landscape</div> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/2024-07/ta-awards.jpg" width="750" height="500" alt="&quot;&quot;"> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-cutline-long field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p><em>Clockwise from top left: Cassandra Olsen, Paul Pritchard,&nbsp;Shay Chavoshian,&nbsp;Sam Sanchinel,&nbsp;Kat Furtado, Titilola Aiyegbusi and Qusai Hassan (supplied images)</em></p> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Six teaching assistants (TAs) and one graduate course instructor (CI) have been recognized with <a href="https://tatp.utoronto.ca/awards/">2024 Teaching Excellence Awards</a> by the ÖŘżÚζSM’s <a href="https://tatp.utoronto.ca/">Teaching Assistants’ Training Program</a>.</p> <p>The TA Teaching Excellence, BIPOC TA Teaching Excellence and CI Teaching Excellence awards recognize the outstanding contributions of TAs and graduate student CIs who regularly support, inspire and challenge undergraduate students.</p> <p>The recipients of the TA Teaching Excellence Awards are:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://discover.bme.utoronto.ca/bme-student-receives-2024-teaching-assistant-teaching-excellence-award/"><strong>Shaghayegh (Shay) Chavoshian</strong></a>, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science &amp; Engineering</li> <li><strong>Cassandra Olsen</strong>, department of English, Faculty of Arts &amp; Science</li> <li><strong>Sam Sanchinel</strong>, Women and Gender Studies Institute, Faculty of Arts &amp; Science</li> <li><strong>Qusai Hassan</strong>, department of chemistry, Faculty of Arts &amp; Science</li> <li><strong>Paul Pritchard</strong>, department of sociology, U of T Mississauga</li> </ul> <p>In 2022, the Teaching Assistants’ Training Program introduced the BIPOC Teaching Excellence Award to recognize lived experiences of Black, Indigenous and racialized communities whose academic experiences have been impacted by systemic barriers, and to highlight their accomplishments and excellence in teaching practice. The winner of this award for 2024 is <strong>Titilola Aiyegbusi </strong>from the department of English in the Faculty of Arts &amp; Science.</p> <p>The recipient of the CI Teaching Excellence Award is <strong>Kat Furtado</strong> from the department of classics in the Faculty of Arts &amp; Science.</p> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-source field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">UTC</div> <div class="field field--name-field-top-story-hub-page- field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Top Story (Hub page)</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Wed, 03 Jul 2024 15:21:37 +0000 rahul.kalvapalle 308378 at Matthew Osborne receives Dorrington Award /celebrates/matthew-osborne-receives-dorrington-award <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Matthew Osborne receives Dorrington Award</span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-type/academic-achievement" hreflang="en">Academic Achievement</a></div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>lanthierj</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2022-06-20T15:48:25-04:00" title="Monday, June 20, 2022 - 15:48" class="datetime">Mon, 06/20/2022 - 15:48</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-people field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-people/students" hreflang="en">Students</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/jennifer-dorrington-award" hreflang="en">Jennifer Dorrington Award</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/donnelly-centre-cellular-biomolecular-research" hreflang="en">Donnelly Centre for Cellular &amp; Biomolecular Research</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/institute-biomedical-engineering" hreflang="en">Institute for Biomedical Engineering</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-image-orientation field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">landscape</div> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/media/Matthew-photo-crop.jpg" width="750" height="500" alt="Matthew Osborne"> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><b>Matthew Osborne</b>, a fourth-year PhD student in the institute for Biomedical Engineering (BME), has been awarded a Jennifer Dorrington Graduate Research Award for 2022.</p> <p>The award is an important recognition for Osborne, who noted that the past winners included alumni from his lab. He&nbsp;described them as “pretty incredible researchers.”</p> <p>“I am thrilled to be in such company,” he said.</p> <p>Osborne is working with BME Director <b>Warren Chan</b>, whose lab is located in the <a href="https://thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/">Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research</a> where he is also a principal investigator. The Chan lab is world renowned for developing nanotechnology-based diagnostics method for rapid detection of pathogens.</p> <p>Osborne, who has a background in mechanical engineering, was tasked with automating the lab’s diagnostic platform for the detection of Sars-CoV-2 into a portable device with a smartphone readout. The method is similar to PCR and therefore highly sensitive, but it also allows point-of care use&nbsp;similar to rapid tests. Osborne, who envisages its use one day in remote communities, is now keenly awaiting real-world data being collected from patient samples by his collaborators at Public Health Ontario.</p> <h3><a href="https://thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/2022-dorrington-awards-recognize-graduate-students-working-cancer-diagnostics-and-drug">Read the Donnelly Centre story</a></h3> <p>&nbsp;</p> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-source field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Donnelly</div> <div class="field field--name-field-top-story-hub-page- field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Top Story (Hub page)</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Mon, 20 Jun 2022 19:48:25 +0000 lanthierj 174936 at Donnelly Centre graduate students recognized with Jennifer Dorrington Award /celebrates/donnelly-centre-graduate-students-recognized-jennifer-dorrington-award <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Donnelly Centre graduate students recognized with Jennifer Dorrington Award</span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-type/research-innovation" hreflang="en">Research &amp; Innovation</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-type/academic-achievement" hreflang="en">Academic Achievement</a></div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>lanthierj</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2021-04-08T09:31:15-04:00" title="Thursday, April 8, 2021 - 09:31" class="datetime">Thu, 04/08/2021 - 09:31</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-people field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-people/faculty" hreflang="en">Faculty</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-campus field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-campus/st-george" hreflang="en">St. George</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/temerty-faculty-medicine" hreflang="en">Temerty Faculty of Medicine</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/department-molecular-genetics" hreflang="en">Department of Molecular Genetics</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/institute-biomedical-engineering" hreflang="en">Institute for Biomedical Engineering</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/donnelly-centre-cellular-and-biomedical-research" hreflang="en">Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomedical Research</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/jennifer-dorrington-award" hreflang="en">Jennifer Dorrington Award</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-image-orientation field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">landscape</div> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/media/dorrington-award-2.jpg" width="750" height="500" alt> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-cutline-long field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item">(L-R) Shubham Gupta, Jamie Wu, Jessica Knox</div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Three students working on doctoral research in the Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research have received Jennifer Dorrington Graduate Research Awards for 2021.</p> <p>The annual award recognizes students enrolled in graduate programs at the Temerty Faculty of Medicine who are doing research in a Donnelly Centre lab. Established by the Dorrington family in 2006, the award celebrates late U of T Professor <strong>Jennifer Dorrington </strong>who did pioneering research on ovarian cancer at the iconic Banting and Best Department for Medical Research which was succeeded by the Donnelly Centre.</p> <p>The students, whose research holds potential for global food security, early disease detection and better cancer treatments, are:</p> <ul> <li><a href="/celebrates/graduate-student-jessica-knox-receives-dorrington-award"><strong>Jessica Knox</strong>, department of molecular genetics</a>, supervised by Professor <strong>Peter Roy</strong></li> <li><a href="/celebrates/graduate-student-shubham-gupta-receives-dorrington-award"><strong>Shubham Gupta</strong>, department of molecular genetics</a>, supervised by Assistant Professor <strong>Hannes Röst</strong></li> <li><a href="/celebrates/graduate-student-jamie-wu-receives-dorrington-award"><strong>Jamie Wu</strong>, Institute of Biomedical Engineering</a>, supervised by Professor <strong>Warren Chan</strong></li> </ul> <p>“On behalf of everyone on the Dorrington award committee, I would like to offer warmest congratulations to the winners. We were really impressed by the exceptionally strong pool of candidates this year,” says <strong>Gary Bader</strong>, professor of computational biology and molecular genetics in the Donnelly Centre and chair of the award committee whose members are Donnelly Centre investigators <strong>Liliana Attisano</strong>,<strong> Henry Krause</strong> and <strong>Fritz Roth</strong>.</p> <p>“Jessica, Shubham and Jamie have made amazing progress, especially during this challenging year, and their research will have an important impact on peoples’ lives,” said Bader.</p> <h3><a href="https://www.thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/2021-dorrington-awards-recognize-graduate-research-drug-discovery-precision-medicine-and-cancer">Read the Donnelly Centre story</a></h3> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-source field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Donnelly Centre</div> <div class="field field--name-field-top-story-hub-page- field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Top Story (Hub page)</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Thu, 08 Apr 2021 13:31:15 +0000 lanthierj 169009 at