Awards

Fok-Shuen Leung wins Killam Teaching Prize (2021/2022)

The Killam teaching prize is awarded every year to an elite group across the university. It recognizes outstanding achievements as a teacher and reflects enthusiasm and commitment to our students. More information about the prize is available at: https://academic.ubc.ca/awards-funding/award-winners... read more

Elyse Yeager wins Killam Teaching Prize (2021/2022)

The Killam teaching prize is awarded every year to an elite group across the university. It recognizes outstanding achievements as a teacher and reflects enthusiasm and commitment to our students. More information about the prize is available at: https://academic.ubc.ca/awards-funding/award-winners... read more

Ailana Fraser wins the Cathleen Synge Morawetz Prize (2021)

Ailana has been awarded the Cathleen Synge Morawetz Prize of the Canadian Mathematical Society for her work on Steklov eigenvalues. https://cms.math.ca/awards/cathleen-synge-morawetz-prize/read more

Caleb Marshall is a recipient of a Vanier Scholarship (2021)

This is a tremendous recognition for a graduate student. https://vanier.gc.ca/en/scholar_search-chercheur_recherche_2021.html (select the NSERC tab)read more

Malabika Pramanik is now a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2021)

Her citation reads: "For contributions to complex and harmonic analysis and mentoring and support for the participation of -represented groups in mathematics.” So far as I can tell, we now have eleven colleagues in this group (not counting emeritus professors). More details here: https://www.ams... read more

Leah Edelstein-Keshet wins the premier research prize in applied mathematics, SIAM’s von Neumann prize (2022)

"The 2022 John von Neumann Prize – the highest honor and flagship lecture of Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) – is awarded to Leah Edelstein-Keshet, University of British Columbia, in recognition of her far-reaching contributions to mathematical biology. Her work on cellular... read more

Michael Ward: Julian Cole lecture at the SIAM annual meeting (2022)

This is like an Olympic gold or the World Cup because it is only awarded every four years, "for an outstanding contribution to the mathematical characterization and solution of a challenging problem in the physical or biological sciences, or in engineering, or for the development of mathematical... read more

Melania Alvarez: UBC Envisioning Equality Award (2022)

Melania Alvarez has been announced as a recipient of the UBC Envisioning Equality award on International Women’s Day (today). This is the first award of its kind initiated to highlight and celebrate exceptional women and gender-diverse faculty and staff at UBC. Details here: https://academic.ubc.ca... read more

Leah Edelstein-Keshet: UBC Science Excellence in Service Awards (2021)

Leah Edelstein-Keshet is the winner of the 2021 UBC Science Excellence in Service Awards. Details here: https://science.ubc.ca/faculty/awards/serviceread more

Marlene Tecson-Golfinopoulous: UBC Science Excellence in Service Awards (2021)

Marlene Tecson-Golfinopoulous is the winner of the 2021 UBC Science Excellence in Service Awards. Details here: https://science.ubc.ca/faculty/awards/serviceread more