We are proud to announce that Dr. Jodie Jenkinson, director of the Master of Science in Biomedical Communications program at the University of Toronto, has been promoted to full professor.
Effective July 1, 2022, this academic appointment acknowledges Jenkinson's contribution to research and teaching, and the training of highly-qualified personnel.
Program director since 2019, Jenkinson is a visualization scientist. She researches the role that visual representations play in learning, the design of visual representations for optimal impact, and the development of standards of visual communication in the scientific visualization community.
As principal investigator of the ScienceVis Lab, Jenkinson's research has been supported by the Connaught Fund, the National Science Foundation and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. Her work has been published in such journals as Nature Communications, Computers & Education, and the Journal of Molecular Biology.
Since 2012, Jenkinson has supervised the training of more than 30 graduate students in biomedical communications.
Jodie Jenkinson stands with three of the four graduate students whose research she currently supervises. From left: Aimy Meng Yu Wang, Professor Jodie Jenkinson, Mimi Yuejun Guo and Amy Ke Er Zhang. Absent: Sana Khan.
We extend our heartiest congratulations to our colleague Professor Jodie Jenkinson!