Awards

Congratulations to Chantal Mustoe. She is the recipient of the 2015/2016 UBC Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award​.

UBC’s Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Awards have been given annually since 1996 / 1997. The award recognizes the valuable role that teaching assistants play in our undergraduate programs, sending an important message to students (both undergraduate and graduate) that UBC values teaching. With over 2000 Teaching Assistants working at the university, winning this...

Congratulations to Dr. Chengzhi He. He is the recipient of the UBC Postdoctoral Fellows Travel Award.

As part of UBC's ongoing efforts to support its young research talent, the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies and UBC Science offer a travel award program for postdoctoral fellows. It is designed to assist PDFs with travel to conferences in order to present research performed at UBC. The...

Dr. Berlinguette has been awarded the E. W. R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship as a recognition for his research and accomplishments. Up to six Steacie Fellowships are awarded annually to enhance the career development of outstanding and highly promising scientists and engineers who are faculty members of Canadian universities. Congratulations Dr. Berlinguette!

Congratulations to Dr. Michael Wolf! Dr. Wolf has been awarded the Rio Tinto Alcan Award for his distinguished contribution to the fields of inorganic chemistry. The award will be presented during the 99th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition, which is taking place in Halifax from June 5-9, 2016. Congratulations Dr. Wolf!

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Congratulations to Mechanical Engineering Supervisor, Des Lovrity! Des was recently awarded the President’s Staff Award for Creativity & Innovation. The President’s Staff Awards (Vancouver Campus) recognize the personal achievements and contributions of staff to UBC and to the vision and goals of the University. Two recent successful projects highlight Des’s ingenuity and these include: building a mobile research station to be deployed on Vancouver Island for a study on air quality and...

Congratulations to Dr. Stephen Withers! Dr. Withers has been awarded the 2016 CIC Medal.  This award is presented as a mark of distinction and recognition to a person who has made an outstanding contribution to the science chemistry in Canada, this is the CIC’s top award. Dr. Withers joins the ranks of the following most recent previous recipients, Axel Becke, Douglas Stephan, Mark Lautens, Raymond Andersen, Adi Eisenberg, to name a few. Congratulations!

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Congratulations to Dr. Roman Krems! Dr. Krems has been elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society, “For developing numerical tools for the description of molecular collisions at cold and ultra cold temperatures and their control using external electric and magnetic fields.” He will receive his fellowship certificate at an upcoming meeting of the APS. Congratulations!

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Congratulations to Dr. Dan Bizzotto! Dr. Bizzotto has been selected as the winner of the Prix Jacques Tacussel, in recognition of his contribution to the development of in situ electrochemical fluorescence microscopy and its application to molecular and biomolecular adsorption. The prize will be presented at the 2016 Annual Meeting in Den Haag, Netherlands, where Dr. Bizzotto will be delivering an award lecture to illustrate main achievements of his work. Congratulations!

Congratulations to Dr. Melanie Higgins!

Dr. Higgins, a postdoctoral fellow in the Ryan group, received a 2015 Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (MSFHR) Trainee Award in the Biomedical Division. She was awarded funding for the development of new antibiotics for the treatment of MRSA.

Michael Smith Foundation Health Research Trainee Awards are awarded in four divisions of health research to provide support to up-and-coming researchers across British Columbia.