April 13, 2026
We are pleased to announce the recipients of this year’s Killam Teaching Prize and Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award:
Killam Teaching Prize 2025/2026
The Killam Teaching Prize is awarded annually to faculty nominated by students, colleagues and alumni in recognition of excellence in teaching.
- Anwar Ahmed, Department of Language & Literacy Education, Faculty of Education
- Kelly Apostle, Department of Orthopaedics, Faculty of Medicine
- Alireza Bagherzadeh, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science
- Alifa Bandali, Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice, Faculty of Arts
- Sara Barron, Department of Forest Resources Management, Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Stewardship
- Nadine Borduas-Dedekind, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science
- Amanda Cheong, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts
- Lindsay Cuff, Faculty of Land & Food Systems
- Angela Devlin, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine
- Quynh Doan, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine
- Sheila Epp, School of Nursing, Faculty of Health and Social Development
- David King, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts
- Varada Kolhatkar, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science
- Roman Krems, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science
- Gabrielle Lam, School of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science
- Jasmin Ma, School of Kinesiology, Faculty of Education
- Kurt McBurney, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine
- Jess McIver, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Faculty of Science
- Janis McKenna, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Faculty of Science
- Karin Mickelson, Peter A. Allard School of Law
- Priti Narayan, Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts
- Patrick Pennefather, Department of Theatre and Film, Faculty of Arts
- Julien Picault, Department of Economics, Philosophy and Political Science, Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
- John Roosa, Department of History, Faculty of Arts
- Leyton Schnellert, Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy, Faculty of Education
- Weaver Shaw, UBC Vantage College
- Heather Trajano, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science
- Xin Zheng, Accounting and Information Systems Division, Sauder School of Business
Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award 2025/2026
The Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award is presented each year to 19 graduate students who have made outstanding contributions to teaching and learning at UBC.
- Shams Al-Anzi, Nursing, Faculty of Applied Science
- Genevieve Bonnor, Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science
- Cody R. Brown, English Language and Literatures, Faculty of Arts
- Lindsay Cunningham, Curriculum & Pedagogy, Faculty of Education
- Hans Ghezzi, Bioinformatics, Faculty of Science
- Adrianna Greco, Faculty of Land and Food Systems
- Rosalia Jaffray, Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Stewardship
- Kirthana Singh Khurana, First Year & Interdisciplinary Programs, Faculty of Arts
- Amy Kim, Botany, Faculty of Science
- Jack (He) Liu, Faculty of Dentistry
- Rachel Lobay, Statistics, Faculty of Science
- Jeffrey Niu, Computer Science, Faculty of Science
- Ebrahim Pasbanian, Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science
- Priya Samuel, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Jacob Stockton, Mathematics, Faculty of Science
- Karina Thiessen, Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine
- Regan Thompson, Kinesiology, Faculty of Education
- Nicolas Wesseler, Sauder School of Business
- Avontay Williams, Philosophy, Faculty of Arts
Learn more about the Killam teaching awards at UBC.