The highest honour UBC can confer on a faculty member, a University Killam Professorship recognizes exceptional teachers and researchers who are leaders in their fields, and who have received international recognition for their talents and efforts.
A University Killam Professor will continue to hold the designation for as long as they remain a tenured faculty member at the University. After retirement, such individual will be entitled to refer to themselves as a “University Killam Professor Emeritus/Emerita”
2024/25
- Isabel Grant, Peter A. Allard School of Law
- Marco Marra, Department of Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine & Michael Smith Laboratories
- Jamie Peck, Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts
Read the announcement here.
2022/23
- Nemy Banthia, Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science
- Dominic McIver Lopes, Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts
- Natalie Strynadka, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine
Read the news announcement and listen to the audio recording from the celebratory speaker event here.
2020/21
- Janice Eng, Department of Physical Therapy, Faculty of Medicine
- Tina Loo, Department of History, Faculty of Arts
- Bonny Norton, Department of Language & Literacy Education, Faculty of Education
- Dolph Schluter, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science
- Rashid Sumaila, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, Faculty of Science, and School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, Faculty of Arts
- Dominique Weis, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Faculty of Science
Read the news announcement here.
2016/2017
- Sally Otto, Department of Zoology
- Daniel Pauly, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries
- Janet Werker, Department of Psychology
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2015/2016
- Robert E.W. Hancock, Department of Microbiology and Immunology
- Julio Montaner, Department of Medicine
- Loren Rieseberg, Department of Botany
2010/2011
- Sherrill E. Grace, Department of English (Emerita)
2004/2005
- Robert Evans, Department of Economics (Emeritus)
- David Jones, Department of Zoology (Deceased)
2003/2004
- Ian K. Affleck, Department of Physics and Astronomy (Deceased)
- David Dolphin, Department of Chemistry (Emeritus)
- Michael Hayden, Department of Medical Genetics Director
2001/2002
- Peter W. Hochachka, Department of Zoology (Deceased)
- William H. New, Department of English (Emeritus)
1996/1997
- Kalevi Holsti, Department of Political Science (Emeritus)
1995/1996
- Patricia Baird, Department of Medical Genetics (Emerita)
- Michael Smith, Biochemistry (Deceased)