University Killam Professors

Killam Laureates logoThe 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

Read the news announcement here.

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)

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