{"id":26648,"date":"2025-05-21T15:49:28","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T20:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/?post_type=news&#038;p=26648"},"modified":"2025-05-22T11:31:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T16:31:12","slug":"meet-the-2024-25-ahs-excalibur-award-for-teaching-excellence-recipients","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/news-stories\/meet-the-2024-25-ahs-excalibur-award-for-teaching-excellence-recipients\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the 2024-25 AHS Excalibur Award for Teaching Excellence recipients"},"template":"","news_categories":[15],"news_tags":[],"class_list":["post-26648","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news_categories-honors-and-recognition"],"acf":{"intro_text_subtitle":"","intro_text_body":"<p>Each year the AHS Student Council presents the <a href=\"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/faculty-and-staff-resources\/ahs-honors-and-recognition\/#2024-25-recipients\">Excalibur Award for Teaching Excellence<\/a> to one faculty member from each AHS department\/program, chosen from nominations made by the graduating students of that program. The awards are presented during the spring commencement ceremony to teachers who are role models in their professions, who provide encouragement for learning in the classroom or clinical setting, who help guide students in the achievement of their goals, and who are supportive of the students\u2019 individual efforts.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kinesiology programs: <a href=\"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/profiles\/wekesser-meredith\/\"><strong>Meredith Wekesser<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Nutrition programs: <a href=\"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/profiles\/lyles-renea\/\"><strong>Renea Lyles<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Rehabilitation Sciences programs: <a href=\"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/profiles\/wescott-jennifer\/\"><strong>Jennifer Wescott<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Disability &amp; Human Development programs: <a href=\"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/profiles\/van-heumen-lieke\/\"><strong>Lieke van Heumen<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Health Information Management programs: <a href=\"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/profiles\/ramirez-gideon\/\"><strong>Gideon Ramirez<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Health Informatics: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/profiles\/krive-jacob\/\">Jacob Krive<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Biomedical Visualization program: <a href=\"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/profiles\/bond-sam\/\"><strong>Sam Bond<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Physical Therapy programs: <a href=\"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/profiles\/jones-alyssa-ann\/\"><strong>Alyssa Jones<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Occupational Therapy programs: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/profiles\/van-denend-toni\/\">Toni Van Denend<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","intro_text_excerpt":"The award is presented to one faculty member from each AHS department\/program, selected from nominations made by the graduating students","content_author":"Erika Chavez","content_sticky":false,"intro_text_include_image":false,"news_include_thumbnail":false,"components":false,"SEO_meta_description":""},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/26648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/26648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26669,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/26648\/revisions\/26669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_categories?post=26648"},{"taxonomy":"news_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_tags?post=26648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}