Nominations are now open for the annual UBC Faculty Research Awards, including the Killam Accelerator Research Fellowship. These awards acknowledge research excellence across all disciplines at UBC.
Application process for 2023:
Submit an Expression of Intent by September 15 (not requested for the Killam Accelerator Research Fellowship)
Final submissions for all awards must be made online by November 15
A message from Dermot Kelleher, Dean, Faculty of Medicine and Vice-President, Health.
I am pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Mieke Koehoorn as Vice Dean, Academic Affairs, for a five-year term effective September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2028.
Dr. Koehoorn is a professor in the School of Population and Public Health. Her research focuses on current and emerging issues in occupational health, with a special interest in developing and linking data to enable cutting-edge research on occupational epidemiology. She is involved in research projects investigating sex, gender, work injury, and workers’ compensation.
As part of her research program focused on work and health, she has served as Co-Director for the Partnership for Work, Health and Safety, an innovative research partnership between UBC and WorkSafeBC. She has held a Canadian Institutes for Health Research Chair in Gender, Work and Health and has received a Michael Smith Health Research Scholar award as well as Senior Scholar awards.
Dr. Koehoorn has also served as a UBC Vancouver senator, as Head of the Division of Occupational and Environmental Health, and as Associate Director of Faculty Affairs and of Research for the School of Population and Public Health.
As Vice Dean, Academic Affairs, Dr. Koehoorn will provide oversight of academic standards to the administrative functions of the Faculty, offer support and guidance to academic leadership, and oversee the implementation of our strategic plan Building the Future.
Dr. Koehoorn’s appointment follows the leadership of Dr. Chris Lovato, who has held the role since July 2020. Previous to this, Dr. Lovato served as interim Co-Director of the School of Population and Public Health and founder and Director of the Evaluation Studies Unit. I wish to recognize and thank Dr. Lovato for her dedication and many outstanding contributions to the Faculty, especially during her time as Vice-Dean, Academic. As an accomplished and compassionate leader, she provided oversight of academic standards to the administrative functions of the Faculty, and offered support and guidance to academic leadership. She also contributed significantly, and helped bring to life, our newly refreshed, award-winning strategic plan. We will miss Dr. Lovato and wish her well in the next chapter of her life.
Please join me in congratulating Dr. Koehoorn on her appointment.
This message was sent to all faculty and staff in the Faculty of Medicine.
The CTLT Summer Institute is designed to help instructors and TAs enhance their understanding of sound teaching practices and how to implement them in their teaching contexts.
Hosted by the Centre for Teaching, Learning & Technology (CTLT), the 2023 Summer Institute will take place online from August 21–25.
The Summer Institute serves as a forum for new members of the teaching and learning community to collaborate, network and engage in knowledge exchange. Workshops will focus on the fundamentals of teaching and learning for new instructors and teaching assistants. This year’s institute also features events on EDI and Indigenous topics in teaching and learning.
Nominations are now open for the 2024 Ho-Am Prize.
The Ho-Am Prize is presented each year to people of Korean heritage who have contributed to academics, the arts, and social development, or who have furthered the welfare of humanity through distinguished accomplishments in their respective professional fields.
We invite you to consider colleagues who could be eligible for this distinction. Contact fom.recognition@ubc.ca to declare your intent to nominate and obtain a nomination form.
Internal submission deadline for the full nomination package is Tuesday, October 3, 2023.
The Ho-Am Prize submission deadline is October 31, 2023.
All staff who participate in UBC’s hybrid work program need to complete a new Hybrid Work Agreement.
The new agreement, now available in Workday, consolidates important elements of the original Hybrid Work Request and Work Area Safety Assessment into one simplified request process.
All eligible staff who participate in UBC’s hybrid work program should complete the new Hybrid Work Agreement in Workday as soon as possible, including individuals who already have a previous agreement in place.
If you are a new faculty member at UBC, new to teaching, or have moved into a new position (including faculty, postdoctoral fellows and graduate students/TAs), explore these professional development opportunities from the UBC Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology (CTLT).
This cohort program supports faculty members across UBC campuses in their professional growth as teachers. The intended audience is faculty who are either new to teaching, new to UBC, or both, with an emphasis on those who are new to teaching.
This one-day orientation at UBCV serves as a space for new faculty to learn about the academic culture, policies, and practices of the institution, as well as the resources available to support their teaching, research, and service.
Faculty members at UBC Vancouver are invited to submit a proposal to work with UBC’s Emerging Media Lab to explore how to incorporate technologies such as virtual reality, augmented reality, artificial intelligence and machine learning into your teaching, learning or research projects.
The Emerging Media Lab is an experimental lab space where faculty, staff, and students from all disciplines collaborate to evolve learning by creating tools and techniques using emerging media technologies.
The next cohort of projects runs from September 2023 to the end of April 2024. Submit your proposal by July 31, 2023.
