Named TAship Awards

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W.A. Gorman Teaching Assistant Award

This award in named in honour of long-time faculty member W.A. (Al) Gorman. Dr. Gorman arrived at Queen's in 1955 and taught in the Department for more than 50 years, dedicating himself to undergraduate education. He taught more than 10,000 students throughout his career, all of whom remember him fondly.

Named Teaching Assistant Awards

Named TAship	Subject Area
Wayne Foo and Lynne Marshall	Field Education, Sedimentary & Petroleum Geology
Brian and Debra Heald	Geotechnical & Geoenvironmental Engineering
Paul Hemsley and Coryn Andre	Geotechnical & Geoenvironmental Engineering
Colin Joudrie and Dawn Russell	Field Education
Gord and Katherine Keep	Field Education
Griff Murphy and Anne Raymond	Terrain Evaluation
Dr. William Pearson
Roger and Lorna Smith	Sedimentary and Petroleum Geology
Arc Resources	Applied Geophysics
BGC Engineering Ltd.	Field Education, Design, GIS
Compton Petroleum (for Graham Simpson)	Petroleum Geology
Endeavour Silver	MinEx, structural geology, mineralogy
HanOcci Mining Advisors Inc.	MinEx
Klohn Crippen Berger	Geotechnical & Geoenvironmental Engineering
Thurber Engineering Ltd.	Geotechnical & Geoenvironmental Engineering
Greg Heath
Marc Prefonatine
Class of Sci'04 (Katie Anne MacInnis and Rick Wafsy)

The Named TAship program is an essential contribution to the Department's ability to maintain an excellent instructor:student ratio, in order to ensure high quality field and laboratory instruction. Providing funding to the graduate or undergraduate students holding the TAs, these named TAships are awarded on the basis of nominations from the students taking the courses.