Dr. Gary Wobeser honoured for teaching
Dr. Gary Wobeser
Dr. Gary Wobeser of the WCVM’s Department of Veterinary Pathology is an inaugural recipient of the University of Saskatchewan Provost’s Teaching Awards. Wobeser and other award recipients were honoured during a Celebration of Teaching 2010 reception at Convocation Hall on April 19.
Wobeser was one of 12 people who received the Provost’s College Awards for Outstanding Teaching. Other awards recognized excellence in aboriginal education, international teaching and graduate student teaching. Awards for outstanding new teacher and for outstanding innovation in learning were also presented during the event.
“These awards were established to recognize not only our outstanding teachers, but also the many immeasurable ways they reach our students,” said Ernie Barber, U of S vice-provost, teaching and learning. “The one thing all great teachers have in common — whether faculty, sessionals or graduate students — is that they care about students and their learning. That passion comes through and makes all the difference in student experience.”
Wobeser joined the College’s faculty in 1969 and completed his PhD at the WCVM in 1973. A specialist in wildlife diseases, Wobeser was one of the original founders of the Canadian Cooperative Wildlife Health Centre. The veterinary pathologist has published a number of peer-reviewed papers, has contributed numerous book chapters and has written Disease of Wild Waterfowl, Disease in Wild Animals: Investigation and Management, and Essentials of Disease in Wild Animals — well known and well used texts throughout North America.
Wobeser has also earned a number of awards during his career that spans four decades. He received the U of S Master Teacher Award in 1992, and he is a multiple recipient of the WCVM’s Pre-Clinical Professor of the Year Award as well as the Pfizer Carl J. Norden Distinguished Teaching Award — the most prestigious award given to WCVM faculty for excellence in teaching.
In 2008, Wobeser was also the recipient of the Beth Williams and Tom Thorne Memorial Award. This honour, which is jointly given by the Wildlife Disease Association and the American Association of Wildlife Veterinarians, recognizes a member’s contributions to wildlife disease research and wildlife management problems as well as a person’s efforts to clarify significant problems in wildlife health.
For more information about the U of S Provost’s Teaching Awards, please read the U of S news release.
