{"id":79054,"date":"2021-05-21T10:37:42","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T14:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/?p=79054"},"modified":"2021-11-01T09:31:29","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T13:31:29","slug":"fadie-coleman-wins-2021-metcalf-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/2021\/05\/21\/fadie-coleman-wins-2021-metcalf-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Fadie Coleman Wins 2021 Metcalf Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

Teaching her first class last fall at the School of Medicine, postdoctoral associate Marianne Collard naturally had beginner\u2019s jitters. But in Fadie Coleman, Collard found a mentor who\u2019d taught students from college to middle and high school\u2014and was only too happy to teach a fellow teacher.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI met with Dr. Coleman weekly, where she helped me refine my syllabus, plan class lessons, and evaluate students\u2019 learning,\u201d providing guidance that was \u201cexceptional,\u201d Collard wrote in a letter nominating\u00a0<\/span>Coleman<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>(CAS\u201997, MED\u201916), a MED assistant professor of medical sciences and education, for a 2021\u00a0<\/span>Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching<\/a>, one of Boston University\u2019s highest teaching honors.<\/p>\n

\u201cPerhaps Dr. Coleman\u2019s most admirable quality,\u201d Collard wrote, \u201cis her advocacy for diversity and equality. As a person of color herself, Dr. Coleman understands and empathizes with struggles minority students face, which comprise the majority of the BLCS program.\u201d<\/p>\n

BLCS is the\u00a0<\/span>Biomedical Laboratory & Clinical Sciences Program<\/a>, a collaboration between MED and Metropolitan College, which offers evening classes for working students seeking bachelor\u2019s degrees in biotechnology. It\u2019s a gateway to STEM education\u2014perhaps the only one\u2014for underrepresented minorities and nontraditional students.<\/p>\n

Check out the full story by Rich Barlow in BU Today<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Teaching her first class last fall at the School of Medicine, postdoctoral associate Marianne Collard naturally had beginner\u2019s jitters. But in Fadie Coleman, Collard found a mentor who\u2019d taught students from college to middle and high school\u2014and was only too happy to teach a fellow teacher. \u201cI met with Dr. Coleman weekly, where she helped […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16373,"featured_media":79057,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1535,795],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79054"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79054"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79061,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79054\/revisions\/79061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}