{"id":68733,"date":"2020-09-01T10:42:43","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T14:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?p=68733"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:36:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:36:29","slug":"kim-hellemans-award-of-excellence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/2020\/kim-hellemans-award-of-excellence\/","title":{"rendered":"Carleton&#8217;s Kim Hellemans Receives Award of Excellence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Carleton&#039;s Kim Hellemans Receives Award of Excellence\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Carleton University Neuroscience Prof. <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/neuroscience\/people\/kim-hellemans\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Kim Hellemans<\/a> has received an Award of Excellence from the Ontario Minister of Colleges and Universities in recognition of her dedication to the local community, students and the broader post-secondary education sector during the COVID-19 pandemic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-full wp-image-68735\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"325\" height=\"325\" src=\"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/kim-hellemans-325w-1.jpg\" alt=\"Award of Excellence winner Prof. Kim Hellemans\" class=\"wp-image-68735\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/162\/kim-hellemans-325w-1.jpg 325w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/162\/kim-hellemans-325w-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/162\/kim-hellemans-325w-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/162\/kim-hellemans-325w-1-200x200.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Prof. Kim Hellemans<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Hellemans was nominated by students for her thoughtful and personal approach to teaching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe quick pivot to online\/remote learning back in March was incredibly stressful for everyone, including my students,\u201d says Hellemans.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"not-prose cu-quote cu-component-spacing\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cI was conscientious about touching base and regularly communicating with my students to ensure (that), not only were they doing okay with my class, but doing okay overall.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The Award of Excellence was created to help shine a spotlight on the work being done by professors and instructors at Ontario\u2019s publicly assisted, Indigenous and private post-secondary institutions during COVID-19. It celebrates the incredible work of professors and instructors on campus, in the community and beyond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cReceiving this award means my students felt these extensions of care made a difference and I\u2019m so touched and honoured to have them nominate me,\u201d Hellemans says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212;<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/\">Carleton Newsroom<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carleton University Neuroscience Prof. Kim Hellemans has received an Award of Excellence from the Ontario Minister of Colleges and Universities in recognition of her dedication to the local community, students and the broader post-secondary education sector during the COVID-19 pandemic. Hellemans was nominated by students for her thoughtful and personal approach to teaching. \u201cThe quick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":66284,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-releases"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"blueprint"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68733"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68742,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68733\/revisions\/68742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}