2019/20 Killam Award winners for excellence in teaching

April 30, 2020

As one of six Killam institutions, UBC offers yearly awards from the Killam Endowment Fund to faculty and teaching assistants who demonstrate excellence in teaching. 

The Killam Teaching Prize is awarded annually to faculty members who are nominated by students, colleagues and alumni in recognition of excellence in teaching, while the Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award recognizes the valuable role that Teaching Assistants play in our programs.

A special congratulations to the 2019/20 recipients of both these awards for their outstanding teaching, research and service to the community.

Killam Teaching Prize

Deborah Butler, Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education, Faculty of Education
Veta Chitnev, Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies, Faculty of Arts
Mary Chong, Accounting and Information Systems, Sauder School of Business
Agnes d’Entremont, Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science
Stan Floresco, Psychology, Faculty of Arts
Isabel Grant, Peter A. Allard School of Law
Alison Greig, Physical Therapy, Faculty of Medicine
Kerry Greer, Sociology, Faculty of Arts
Stephen Gustafson, Mathematics, Faculty of Science
Cinda Heeren, Computer Science, Faculty of Science
Saul Isserow, Medicine, Faculty of Medicine
Pamela Kalas, Botany, Faculty of Science
Ramon Lawrence, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics and Statistics, Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences
Erin Lindenberg, Chemistry, Faculty of Science
Gregory Mackie, English Language and Literatures, Faculty of Arts
Sean Maurice, Northern Medical Program, Faculty of Medicine
Thibault Mayor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine
Cheryl Segaric, Nursing, Faculty of Applied Science
Judith Walker, Educational Studies, Faculty of Education
Kristen Walker, Faculty of Land and Food Systems
Qian Wang, Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts
Eugenia Yu, Statistics, Faculty of Science

Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award

Laura Bulk, Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Medicine
Kathleen Coupland, Forest Resources Management, Faculty of Forestry
Jesse Couture, Kinesiology, Faculty of Education
Jill Dosso, Psychology, Faculty of Arts
Colin Dring, Faculty of Land and Food Systems
Yulia Egorova, Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Faculty of Science
Deborah Good, Physics and Astronomy, Faculty of Science
Sonja Isberg, Statistics, Faculty of Science
Katelyn Janzen, Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Science
Mahsa Khalili, Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science
Henry Lai, Kinesiology, Faculty of Education
Masoud Malakoutian, Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science
Jeanie Malone, Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science
Craig Stensrud, English Language and Literatures, Faculty of Arts
Emily Truong Cheung, Sociology, Faculty of Arts
Jens Vent-Schmidt, Botany, Faculty of Science

Previous years' winners can be found for the Killam Teaching Prize and the Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award.



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