Series of four photographs of Frank Vella, Professor of Biochemistry and winner of the Master Teacher Award, standing in front of blackboard with chalk in hand.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Francis (Frank) Vella is a graduate of the (then Royal) University of Malta (then colonial), from which he received a BSC in 1949 and a DM in 1952. Dr. Vella studied at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, beginning in October 1952, earning BA (honours) in 1954 and MA degrees. He was Assistant Lecturer and then Lecturer in Biochemistry at the Medical College of University of Malaya in (then colonial) Singapore (1956-1960), and Senior Lecturer and then Reader in Biochemistry at the Medical College of University of Khartoum, Sudan (1960-1965). He was granted a PhD from the University of Singapore in 1962. When in 1965, after a year of severe political unrest in Khartoum, Dr. Vella was offered an associate professorship to teach biochemistry to medical students at the University of Saskatchewan. Dr. Vella was the winner of the U of S Master Teacher Award in 1984.