Information for students:
- Awards and scholarships information for all students
- Awards and scholarships information for UBC Engineering students
Awards, Prizes & Distinctions
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Honours & Distinctions for our Profs
View this year's recipients as well as those from previous years.
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Nomination Preparation Assistance
Preparing an award nomination is a time-consuming task. In fact, concerns about the time required often deter individuals from nominating much-deserving colleagues. Help is available!
The Communications Manager can provide assistance by contacting referees, editing nomination letters, compiling supporting documentation and submitting the final nomination package.
Contact: Sherry Green, Manager, Web Communications, Faculty Recognition & Accreditation, at 604-822-9091 or sgreen@apsc.ubc.ca
Note: contact Sherry two months ahead of award deadlines to ensure her assistance is available.
Honours & Distinctions to Apply For
Out of the endless myriad of award programs in the world today, the following list includes a selection of some of the likelier honours and distinctions for which our faculty, staff or alumni might be most eligible. It is arranged chronologically by deadline date (in brackets). Dates will vary slightly from year to year and are updated on this page as soon as calls for nominations are broadcast by awarding agencies each year.
Staff Awards
- UBC President's Service Award of Excellence (Feb 28)
- Dean's Award for Excellence in Service (May 31)
- UBC President’s Staff Awards (May 31)
Teaching Awards
- UBC Killam Teaching Prize for Graduate Instruction (Mar 4)
- APEGBC Teaching Award for Excellence in Engineering & Geoscience Education (Apr 13)
- STLHE 3M National Teaching Fellowships (Aug 31) (UBC deadline - Aug 7)
- Michael Smith Awards for Science Promotion (Sep 1)
- UBC President's Award for Public Education through Media (Sep 15)
- UBC Killam Award for Excellence in Mentoring (Oct 15)
- SAE Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award (Oct 16)
- UBC Killam Teaching Prize (Oct 29 - letter of intent)
- UBC Okanagan Award for Teaching Excellence and Innovation (Dec 31)
Scholarly & Lifetime Achievement Awards
- EngineersCanada Awards (Jan 6) (applications made through APEGBC)
- UBC Peter Wall Institute Early Career Scholars Program (last Friday in Jan)
- CUFA BC Awards (Feb 9)
- BC Technologies Industries Association (Mar 13)
- UBC Alumni Association Awards (Mar 15)
- YWCA Women of Distinction Awards Program (Mar 17)
- Association of Consulting Engineers of Canada (Mar 31)
- Brockhouse Canada Prize for Interdisciplinary Research in Science and Engineering (Apr 1)
- NSERC Herzberg Medal (Apr 1)
- Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of BC (Apr 13)
- NSERC Synergy Awards for Innovation (Apr 15)
- CIHR Knowledge Translation Award (May 3)
- UBC Peter Wall Institute Distinguished Scholars in Residence (May 14)
- Chair for Women in Engineering & Science (May 15)
- Canada Council for the Arts Killam Research Fellowship (May 17)
- Bower Award for Achievement in Science (May 31)
- NSERC Steacie Fellowships (Jun 7)
- Canada Council for the Arts Killam Prize (Jun 15)
- BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards (Jun 30)
- The Steacie Prize (Jun 30)
- UBC Killam Research Fellowship (Sep 15)
- BC Innovation Council Awards (Sep 21)
- 2012 Millennium Technology Prize (Oct 1)
- Martha Piper Research Fund for international interdisciplinary research (Oct 1)
- Society of Photographic Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Awards (Oct 1)
- UBC Killam Research Prize (Oct 1). More information about the Killam prizes is available from the official Killam Trust web site.
- UBC Biely and McDowell Research Prizes (Oct 15)
- Canadian Academy of Engineering Fellowships (Oct 31)
- Engineering Institute of Canada Fellowships (mid-Nov)
- UBC Library Innovative Dissemination of Research Award (Nov 28)
- Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute Senior Awards (Nov 30)
- IEEE Canada Awards(Nov 30)
- Royal Society of Canada (Dec 1)
