Baccei Receives Akeson Award for Graduate Teaching
Mark Baccei, PhD, associate professor of anesthesiology, has been named this years recipient of the Richard Akeson Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching by the Health Sciences Graduate Association.
The graduate teaching award was created in 1990 in an effort to recognize the contributions of the outstanding faculty in the College of Medicines graduate programs. Graduate students in the medical school nominate faculty they view as excelling in the area of teaching in the classroom and/or in the lab.
The award was named for Richard Akeson, PhD, former director of the Molecular and Developmental Biology graduate program and chair of the Committee on Graduate Education, after his death.
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