Trent University Professor Wins Top Teaching Award

TORONTO – Trent University Geography professor Susan Wurtele has been named among Ontario's six most outstanding university teachers in a province wide competition adjudicated by the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA) Awards Committee.

Wurtele is known for placing value not only on academic rigour, but on challenging her students to grow as thinkers, citizens and mature human beings.

"OCUFA's Awards Committees was impressed with Professor Wurtele's commitment to experimental learning through field trips, community-based research projects and simulated conferences in her courses," said OCUFA President Michael Doucet.

"Dr. Wurtele has had an enduring and impressive record of mentoring, inspiring, challengin and nurturing her colleagues and students."

The five other award recipients are: Geography Professor Michael Fox from Carleton University, Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics Professor Deborah Cook from McMaster University, Modern Languages and Linguistics Professor Anna Moro from McMaster University, Biology Professor Jon Houseman from the University of Ottawa and Social Work Professor Sarah Todd from Carleton University.