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Recent Awards

2012

  • Raymond Andersen, Chemical Institute of Canada Medal
  • Greg Dake, UBC Killam Teaching Prize (2011-2012)
  • Alexander Dauth, Graduate Student, Edward Piers Memorial Award
  • Mark MacLachlan, E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship (NSERC)
  • Laurel Schafer, UBC Sustainability Research Fellowship (2011-2012)
  • Jackie Stewart, UBC Alma Mater Society Just Desserts Award for Service to Students
  • Suzana Straus, Maria Curie International Incoming Fellowship
  • Stephen Withers, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) Centenary Prize
  • Stephen Withers, Fellow of the Royal Society of London

2011

  • Derek Gates, Strem Chemicals Award for Pure or Applied Inorganic Chemistry
  • Mark MacLachlan, UBC Killam Research Prize
  • Laurel Schafer, Canada Research Chair in Catalyst Development, Tier II
  • Michael Fryzuk, UBC Killam Award for Excellence in Mentoring in the Senior Category
  • Chris Orvig, Canada Council for the Arts Killam Research Fellowship
  • Moshe Shapiro, John C. Polanyi Award
  • Ruth Signorell, E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship (NSERC)
  • Ruth Signorell, UBC Science Undergraduate Society Teaching Award (2010-2011)
  • Stephen Withers, R. U. Lemieux Award
  • Stephen Withers, UBC Faculty of Medicine Award for Excellence in Mentoring Early Career Faculty

2010

  • Raymond Andersen, Professor Jacob Biely Research Prize
  • Mel Comisarow, University of Calgary Chemistry Alumni Award for Outstanding Achievement
  • Brian James, UBC Killam Faculty Reserch Fellowship
  • Hongbin Li, Charles A. McDowell Award for Excellence in Research
  • Chris Orvig, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
  • Ruth Signorell, Keith Laidler Award (CSC)
  • Jackie Stewart, UBC Faculty of Science Killam Prize for Excellence in Teaching
  • Jackie Stewart, UBC Science Undergraduate Society Teaching Excellence Award
  • Martin Tanner, Bernard Belleau Award (CSC)
  • Stephen Withers, Finalist for the Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science & Engineering

2009

  • Raymond Andersen, R.U. Lemieux Award (CSC)
  • Jennifer Love, Faculty of Science Killam Prize for Excellence in Teaching
  • Chris Orvig, Rio Tinto Alcan Award (CSC)
  • Chris Orvig, Royal Society of Chemistry Bioinorganic Chemistry Award
  • Ruth Signorell, UBC Killam Research Prize
  • Ruth Signorell, Thermo Scientific Spectroscopy Award (CSC)

2008

  • Mark MacLachlan, UBC Killam Teachng Prize (2007-2008)
  • Jackie Stewart, UBC Alma Mater Society Just Desserts Award for Service to Students

2007

  • Donald Douglas, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
  • Brian James, Paul N. Rylander Award from the Organic Reactions Catalysis Society
  • Ruth Signorell, Sloan Research Fellowship
  • Laural Schafer, Sloan Research Fellowship
  • Moshe Shapiro, Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics
  • Yan Alexander Wang, Wiley-International Journal of Quantum Chemistry - Young Investigator Award

2006

  • David Dolphin, Order of Canada
  • Gordon Bates, Chemical Education Award (CIC)
  • Michael Fryzuk, Canada Council for the Arts Killam Research Fellowship
  • Thomas Hu, Douglas Atack Award for the Best Paper in Mechanical Pulping
  • Brian James, Douglas Atack Award for the Best Paper in Mechanical Pulping
  • Yoshi Koga, Japan Society of Calorimetry and Thermal Analysis Award
  • Chris Orvig, UBC Killam Research Prize in the Senior Science Category
  • Jackie Stewart, UBC Faculty of Science Killam Prize for Excellence in Teaching

2005

  • Raymond Andersen, UBC Killam Teaching Prize
  • Leslie Burtnick, Leadership Award of Distinction
  • David Dolphin, Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal
  • Donald Fleming, Alexander von Humboldt "wiedereinladung", at the FU-Berlin
  • John Hepburn, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
  • Mark MacLachlan, UBC Faculty of Science Achievement Award for Teaching (2004-2005)
  • Chris Orvig, UBC Faculty of Science Achievement Award for Service
  • John Sherman, UBC Killam Research Fellowship
  • Ruth Signorell, Werner Prize of the Swiss Chemical Society
  • Yan Alexander Wang, Canadian National Committee for International Union of Pure & Applied Chemistry Travel Award (CNC-IUPAC)

2004

  • Michael Blades, Smiths Detection Spectroscopy Award (Canadian Society for Analytical Sciences & Spectroscopy)
  • David Dolphin, Finalist for the Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science & Engineering
  • Donald Douglas, UBC Killam Research Fellowship
  • Donald Fleming, Glenn T. Seaborg Award (ACS Nuclear Chemistry Division)
  • Colin Fyfe, Catalysis Award (CIC)
  • F. Geoffrey Herring, UBC Faculty of Science Killam Prize for Teaching
  • Brian James, Best Paper of the Journal of Pulp and Paper Science
  • Laurel Schafer, Boehringer Ingelheim Young Investigator Award for Organic Chemistry
  • Laurel Schafer, UBC Student Undergraduate Society Teaching Excellence Award
  • Moshe Shapiro, Fellow of the UK Institute of Physics
  • Martin Tanner, Merck Frosst Centre for Therapeutic Research Lecture Award (CSC)
  • Peter Wassell, UBC Faculty of Science Achievement Award
  • Stephen Withers, Professor Jacob Biely Faculty Research Prize (UBC)
  • Michael Wolf, Award for Pure or Applied Inorganic Chemistry (CSC)

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