Congratulations to the 2017/18 Killam Award Winners for excellence in teaching

May 10, 2018

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. 

Congratulations to the 2017/2018 recipients of the Killam Teaching Prize and the Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award:

Killam Teaching Prize

Graham Reynolds, Peter A. Allard School of Law
Bernard Laval, Faculty of Applied Science
Christine D'Onofrio, Faculty of Arts
Laura Ishiguro, Faculty of Arts
Suzy Anger, Faculty of Arts
Brianne Orr-Álvarez, Faculty of Arts
Cash Ahenakew, Faculty of Education
Karen Meyer, Faculty of Education
Shannon Hagerman, Faculty of Forestry
Kelleen Wiseman, Faculty of Land and Food Systems
Jehannine Austin, Faculty of Medicine
Amanda Bradley, Faculty of Medicine
Deborah Giaschi, Faculty of Medicine
Claudia Krebs, Faculty of Medicine
Carson Woo, Sauder School of Business
Aaron Boley, Faculty of Science
Kayli Johnson, Faculty of Science
Priya Anka Lekhi, Faculty of Science
José Rodríguez Núñez, Faculty of Science
James Scoates, Faculty of Science
Stephen McNeil, Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences, UBCO

Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award

Amir Abdi, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science
Shirin Boroushaki, Mathematics, Faculty of Science
Rachel Brydolf-Horwitz, Geography, Faculty of Arts
Mateus Fandino, Physics and Astronomy, Faculty of Science
Randip Gill, Educational and Counselling Psychology and Special Education, Faculty of Education
Mabel Ho, Sociology, Faculty of Arts
Jordon Johnson, Computer Science, Faculty of Science
Kate Jongbloed, Population and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine
Elspeth Kaiser-Derrick, Allard School of Law
Amir Maleki Zamenjani, Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science
Bronwyn Malloy, English, Faculty of Arts
Francisco Paz, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science
Geralyn Ruissen, Kinesiology, Faculty of Education
Emily Scribner, Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Faculty of Science
Christine Sumner, Faculty of Land and Food Systems
Evelyn Sun, Microbiology and Immunology, 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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