As a CTE Faculty Liaison, Mary Power assists instructors in the Faculty of Science in designing innovative learning activities that engage students online and in the classroom. Prior to joining the Centre for Teaching Excellence, Mary taught Microbiology at Wilfrid Laurier University and Cell Biology through the Department of Distance and Continuing Education here at UW. Mary obtained her PhD in Biology from the University of Calgary and worked in Zurich, Switzerland and Charlottesville, Virginia prior to returning to Canada with her husband and two daughters. Mary has also been a research associate in the lab of Dr. Niels Bols (Biology) since 2005.

Presentations

• Assessing student engagement in a multi-media teaching tool in Pharmacy, Andrea Edginton, School of Pharmacy, Jane Holbrook, Centre for Teaching Excellence, Mary Power, Centre for Teaching Excellence, Angela Stark, School of Pharmacy , University of Waterloo – Western Conference on Science Education, London, 2011
• A common principle for course delivery, a diversity of interactions: stories from the trenches, Jane Holbrook, Mary Power and Samar Mohamed, Centre for Teaching Excellence, University of Waterloo – Cohere Blended Learning Conference, Guelph, 2011
• Lithgow, K., Power, M., Anderson, S., & Holbrook, J (2009, October). One model for success: Supporting blended learning through faculty liaisons. Presented at the annual Future of Online and Blended Learning conference, Vancouver, BC.

Grants and Awards

• Andrea Edginton, Jane Holbrook and Mary Power
  Learning Initiative Fund (LIF) Grant  2009:  to develop a multi-media teaching tool and activities for engaging students in clinical biochemistry within the blended learning course, Integrated Patient Focused Care 1.

Publications

• St Denis, C.H., Pinheiro, MDO, Power, M E., Bols NC. 2010. Effect of salt and urban water samples on bacterivory by the ciliate, Tetrahymena thermophila. Environmental Pollution 158:502-507

• Pinheiro, M D.O; Power, M E.; Butler, B J.; Dayeh, VR.; Bols, N C; Slawson R,  Lee, L E. J. ; Lynn, D H. Inactivation of the bacteriophage MS2 by the ciliated protozoan, Tetrahymena thermophila Water Quality Research Journal of Canada, vol. 43, no. 1, pp. 69-76, 2008

Patent

• US Patent No. 7,534,623 (issued May 19, 2009) Apparatus and Method for Purification of Nucleic Acids. Landers J.P., Norris P.M., Power M E, Shirinivasan S. Wolfe, K.A. & Breadmore M.C.