John Patrick Cleary Receives Outstanding Teaching Fellow Award for Biology, 2018/2019

MCBB Ph.D. student, John Patrick Cleary, of the Cheng lab was awarded the Outstanding Teaching Fellow of the Year Award for Biology (2018/2019). Patrick has served for the past two years as a teaching fellow in Biology, including for BI 108 (Biology 2) and BI 203 (Cell Biology), both cornerstone requirements in our curriculum. More recently, he has taught in BB 522 (Molecular Biology Laboratory), a highly interactive upper-level hands-on course. Patrick’s efforts over the past two years have contributed greatly to the success of the teaching mission of the Department of Biology and he received high praise from his teaching advisor for Cell Biology, Dr. Uwe Beffert, as well as from student evaluations. To quote one particularly enthusiastic student, he is a “very cool guy, and a tremendous TF. Keep on doing what you are doing!”