We’d like to congratulate Dr. Trevor Day, Associate Professor of Physiology at Mt Royal University, the latest winner of the ADInstruments Macknight Early Career Innovative Educator Award.
The ADInstruments team have long been strong advocates for innovation in teaching and for creative use of technology in the classroom, and none more so than co-founder and General Manager of Education, Professor Tony Macknight. For us, this award is a great opportunity to encourage creative educators near the beginning of their careers. Now in its fifth year, the Macknight Award recognizes an APS member who shows great potential for incorporating innovative teaching techniques and utilizing technology in engaging undergraduate students in physiology education.
It is a pleasure to present this award to this award to Dr. Day. He has shown outstanding dedication to the teaching of undergraduate students in general and in particular, designed and built a tilt-table apparatus for investigating lower-body negative pressure effects with students at Mt Royal - which looks highly interactive, informative and, to be honest, pretty fun. You can read more about his research and his teaching at Mt Royal University here. Dr. Day carries his passion for creativity and physiology beyond the classroom too, a regular speaker at the Banff Centre Science Communication program and frontman of science rock band, the Free Radicals, who recently created the original music for the "The Giant Walkthrough Brain" project.
Dr Day has also written for the APS journal The Physiologist about “Success in research at an undergraduate institution,” about the considerations and rewards of developing a program in a new research university.
We wish Dr. Day all the best for the future and look forward to presenting the award in Boston at EB 2015. Congratulations again!