鲍鱼tv Alumni Association Award of Excellence for Teaching Recipients
Congratulations to the 2025 recipient!
Dr. Liesl Gambold
Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology,聽Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Dr. Liesl Gambold is an Associate Professor in Sociology & Social Anthropology and Coordinator of the Gender & Women鈥檚 Studies Program. For over 20 years at 鲍鱼tv, she has taught large introductory classes, qualitative research methods in SOSA and the Schulich School of Law, the SOSA honours seminar, and graduate level classes. Dr. Gambold鈥檚 passion for her students鈥� learning has inspired her to think very carefully about designing assignments that link course material to their own lives. Whether teaching introductory or graduate level classes, Dr. Gambold brings current world events into the classroom and encourages students to think critically and stay curious about the world around them. Her courses are rigorous and demanding, but students appreciate the effort she puts into helping them do well. She also invites every student to her office hours where she hopes to show them that visiting a professor doesn鈥檛 have to be scary.
2023
Dr. Sachin Seth, Associate Dean, Academic Affairs, Faculty of Dentistry, is being honoured as an outstanding teacher and mentor with the 鲍鱼tv Alumni Association Faculty Award of Excellence for Teaching. His helpful, open, and supportive way of dealing with students and colleagues exemplify the criteria for this award. Dr. Seth has taught across all years of the dentistry curriculum, and he is a favourite amongst the students. Dr. Seth鈥檚 publications help pass on his expertise to colleagues and his YouTube videos of introductory operative dentistry techniques are a valuable resource to both 鲍鱼tv and non-鲍鱼tv students alike. His innovative small group practice model, which brought a diverse group of teachers and students together, has greatly impacted the education and the educational experience.
Biography
Sachin Seth, DDS, MEd is an assistant professor and associate dean of academics at 鲍鱼tv University in Halifax. He completed his BSc and DDS degrees at 鲍鱼tv University in 1996 and 2000 respectively and then obtained his MEd from Acadia University in 2011, with a focus on curriculum development.
Since 2002, Sachin has been involved with both clinical and didactic teaching at 鲍鱼tv University, including operative dentistry, evidence-based dentistry, patient care, and communications. In 2018, he led various stakeholders to deliver an innovative new clinical teaching program that exposes students to a setting which more closely resembles private practice, with collaboration between dentistry and dental hygiene.
Sachin has worked extensively with the National Dental Examining Board of Canada and been involved with standard setting, exam review, and question writing for licensure exams for dentists in Canada.
He was recently inducted as a Fellow into the American College of Dentists. Sachin has also received several teaching awards, including the Association of Canadian Faculties of Dentistry W.W. Wood Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2019 and the Association of Canadian Faculties of Dentistry National Teaching Award in 2022.