Noreen Lyell has been awarded both the 2010 Outstanding TA Award for Microbiology AND the 2010 Excellence in Teaching Award from Graduate School!

The Excellence in Teaching Award is given to only 5 graduate students each year out of the ~600 Teaching Assistants. The graduate students who are chosen to receive this award have demonstrated superior teaching skills and have contributed to teaching beyond their own classroom responsibilities. It is reflected in the letters from students and colleagues in Noreen¹s teaching portfolio that Noreen is not only very knowledgeable about Microbiology, she is patient, kind, organized and dedicated, which are all attributes that define an excellent teacher. She has demonstrated her leadership abilities time and again as Lead TA in the Microbiology laboratory courses and she has sought out leadership and career development opportunities through the Graduate School¹s Emerging Leaders Program, the NSF REU Program¹s Entering Mentoring Program, the American Society for Microbiology's Summer Institute in Preparation for Careers in Microbiology and the ASM Writing and Publishing Institute. While serving as a TA for 7 semesters, Noreen has also excelled in her dissertation research, publishing a first author paper in Applied Environmental Microbiology and a paper in Molecular Microbiology, and recently submitting another first author paper.

The Department of Microbiology is very proud of Noreen Lyell¹s many accomplishments as a Teaching Assistant and a student in our graduate program!