Faculty Recognition
Professor Janet Polivy
2009 UofTM Research Excellence Award Recipient
The Research Award was established to recognize excellence in research at the University of Toronto Mississauga. Research effectiveness is demonstrated by the degree to which the faculty member has had a relevant and sustained impact through contributions to her/his field of study, is able to stimulate and challenge the research ability of students, to communicate research results effectively, and to maintain a mastery of his/her subject area.
Dr. Dax Urbszat, Lecturer
2009 UofTM Teaching Excellence Award Recipient
The Teaching Excellence Award was established to recognize excellence in undergraduate teaching at the University of Toronto Mississauga. Teaching includes lecturing, involvement in seminars and tutorials, individual and group discussion, laboratory teaching and other means by which students derive educational benefit. Teaching effectiveness is demonstrated by the degree to which the faculty member is able to stimulate and challenge the intellectual ability of students, to communicate academic material effectively and to maintain a mastery of his/her subject areas. It also involves maintaining accessibility to students and the ability to influence the intellectual and scholarly development of students.
Anna Lomanowska, Graduate Student
2009 UofTM Teaching Excellence Award Recipient
The Teaching Excellence Award was established to recognize excellence in undergraduate teaching at the University of Toronto Mississauga. Teaching includes lecturing, involvement in seminars and tutorials, individual and group discussion, laboratory teaching and other means by which students derive educational benefit. Teaching effectiveness is demonstrated by the degree to which the faculty member is able to stimulate and challenge the intellectual ability of students, to communicate academic material effectively and to maintain a mastery of his/her subject areas. It also involves maintaining accessibility to students and the ability to influence the intellectual and scholarly development of students.
Professor Dax Urbszat
Nominee in 2008 TVO Big Ideas Best Lecturer Contest
Jeff Graham
Professor Jeffrey Graham
New Milestones in Multimedia Learning
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Professor Kirk Blankstein
2007 LIFT Award Recipient
Kirk Blankstein was selected as the recipient of the 2007 LIFT (Leadership in Faculty Teaching) Award, which recognizes and encourages teaching excellence at Ontario's colleges and universities. The award is given to faculty who influence, motivate and inspire students and demonstrate leadership in teaching methods for the diverse student body in Ontario.
Professor Blankstein is a dynamic, inspiring, passionate and compassionate teacher and offers innovative interactive, multimedia presentations rather than traditional lectures in his classes, eliciting a high degree of class participation. He instills a desire to learn, and to exceed perceived limits of abilities through self-discipline and hard work. He has collaborated with undergraduates to produce almost 60 publications and book chapters, often including the students as first authors.
Professor Bruce Schneider
2007 UofTM Research Award Recipient
This Research Award was established to recognize excellence in research at the University of Toronto Mississauga. Research effectiveness is demonstrated by the degree to which the faculty member has had a relevant and sustained impact through contributions to her/his field of study, is able to stimulate and challenge the research ability of students, to communicate research results effectively, and to maintain a mastery of his/her subject area.
Professor Robert Gerlai
Newly elected President of the International Behavioural Neuroscience Sociey (IBNS)
Robert will be the first President of IBNS serving for two years (2007 and 2008) and he will be the second Canadian President of the Society since its inception 15 years ago. IBNS is a society of approximately 600 members whose focus is the understanding of the neurobiology of behaviour. The Society holds annual meetings in diverse locations. The next meeting will be held in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, June 2007.
Professor Dax Urbszat
Nominee for TVO's 2007 Best Lecturer Competition
Congratuations to Professor Urbszat on being one of five members of the teaching staff at Uof T Mississauga nominated for TVO's Best Lecturer Competition in 2007. The candidates were nominated by students and alumni for their enthusiasm, knowledge and eloquence.
Professor Bruce Schneider
2006 Faculty Award Recipient
The Faculty Award recognizes excellence in teaching, research and professional endeavours. For more than 35 years, Professor Bruce Schneider has made significant scientific contributions in the fields of human auditory development and information processing by sensory and cognitive systems, both in infants and children, and in older adults.
Professor Schneider's current research, which is funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), focuses on how age-related changes in hearing and vision affect an older person's ability to engage in everyday daily activities, such as listening to a conversation, reading a newspaper, or talking on the telephone. He has served on many grant review panels for the Canadian government and lectures frequently on hearing and communication.
Recently, his innovative team approach to research led to the creation of a new centre which he now directs, the Centre for Research on Biological Communication Systems, funded by the Canada Foundation for Innovation, the Ontario Innovation Trust Fund and the City of Mississauga. He also heads an award-winning CIHR Strategic Training Program on Communication and Social Interaction in Healthy Aging.
Professor Alison Fleming
2005 Faculty Award Recipient
The Faculty Award recognizes excellence in teaching, research and professional endeavours. Alison Fleming is an acknowledged pioneer in establishing research into the neurological bases of maternal behaviour in laboratory animals and humans. This distinguished Canadian neurobiologist headed a laboratory that yielded up to 50 per cent of seminal findings in maternal behaviour worldwide. A warm, passionate and engaging teacher, she has trained many distinguished students and won the University of Toronto at Mississauga's (UTM) Teaching Excellence Award. She has published 16 book chapters and more than 90 refereed papers, described as "most creative, most exquisitely designed and most informative" by an author who reviewed five decades of research.
