Emily Varga

Haesung Ahn and Sheldon Fetter; Mark Potter and Emily Varga.Winners of the 2023 GA/TA Awards. At top Haesung Ahn and Sheldon Fetter; bottom Mark Potter and Emily Varga.

Awards honour GAs and TAs for excellence in teaching

The Centre for Teaching and Learning is proud to announce the winners of the GA/TA Awards.

The winners of the GA/TA award for Educational Leadership are Haesung Ahn, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Sheldon Fetter, Department of Kinesiology.

The winners of the GA/TA award for Educational Practice are Mark Potter, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Emily Varga, Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research.

Ahn said he was astonished and couldn’t believe that he had been selected as a recipient.

Photo of Doctoral Student Emily Varga taken in KenyaDoctoral student Emily Varga travelled to the east African country of Kenya to gain an understanding of its algal blooms.

Team comparing algal blooms in Africa and North America

Harmful algal blooms are not unique to Lake Erie. The global issue took a team of UWindsor researchers to Kenya to study its algal blooms, in hopes of shedding light on the problem in southern Ontario.

The collaborative effort paired researchers from Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Kenya to collect data on Lake Victoria in hopes of better understanding the environmental drivers of harmful algal blooms. Algal blooms are collections of algae that have the potential to produce toxins that can contaminate drinking water and harm the ecosystem.

food pantryThe food pantry, which fights food insecurity for all students, will receive $30,000 through the combined efforts of those who completed the Employee Engagement Survey, Human Resources, CUPE Local 4580, and the Office of the President.

Campus collaboration boosts donations to food pantry

The food pantry, which fights food insecurity for all students, will receive $30,000 through the combined efforts of campus groups.
Emily Varga, Hasnet Ahmed, Milad Kazemian, Kory Bertrand, Alicia Dicarlo, and Hiatus House executive director Sylvie Guenther.Officials from the UWindsor graduate and teaching assistants’ union make a $25,000 donation to Hiatus House. From left: Emily Varga, Hasnet Ahmed, Milad Kazemian, Kory Bertrand, Alicia Dicarlo, and Hiatus House executive director Sylvie Guenther.

Students extend support to safe space agency

CUPE Local 4580, the graduate and teaching assistants union, delivered a $25,000 donation to the Hiatus House charity on Thursday.