Dr. Baljit Singh: 3M National Teaching Fellow

Dr. Baljit Singh

Dr. Baljit Singh of the Western College of Veterinary Medicine (WCVM) is among 10 Canadian professors who have been selected as 3M National Teaching Fellows for 2009.

“This is a great honour for Dr. Singh as well as for the WCVM and the University of Saskatchewan,” says WCVM Dean Dr. Charles Rhodes. “I want to congratulate him for the hard work and commitment to teaching that has earned him this prestigious award.”

The Fellowship, which was established in 1986 by 3M Canada and the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE), is the highest recognition of university-level teaching excellence in Canada. It celebrates exceptional achievements and contributions by teacher-scholars across Canada.

Singh is a professor of anatomy in the veterinary college’s Department of Veterinary Biomedical Sciences. He is also a highly productive researcher whose research program focuses on cell and molecular biology of lung inflammation as well as aspects of nanomedicine.

Singh’s love of teaching is clearly evident through his accomplishments — including the University of Saskatchewan’s Master Teacher Award in 2008 and the Carl J. Norden Distinguished Teacher Award in 2003. He was also part of the College’s teaching team who received the inaugural U of S Provost’s Prize for Innovative Practice in Teaching and Learning in 2008.

Singh joins more than 230 Canadian professors from 45 universities who have become part of the fellowship over the past 24 years. The STLHE will honour all of this year’s Fellows during its annual conference at the University of New Brunswick on June 18. As well, all of the Fellows will gather at a Québec resort for a 3M Canada-sponsored scholarly retreat in November 2009.