UBC VP Research has recently announced its 2024 University Killam Professors (UKP) competition. The UKP designation is the highest honour that the University can confer on a member of faculty. It recognizes exceptional members of faculty who are extraordinary teachers and researchers, who are leaders in their academic fields, and who have received national and international recognition.
The Faculty of Medicine is launching an internal selection process to nominate up to two candidates to be considered for the UKP competition.
Program highlights:
- Open to tenured professors only, at the full professor rank
- $20,000 annual salary stipend, as long as awardee remains a tenured faculty member
- $100,000 one-time research grant
- Nominations put forward by 6 members of the university community, including:
- Dean
- Staff member
- Student
- Faculty member
- Alumnus/a
- One more, from categories above
- FoM internal nomination deadline: June 27, 2024
Interested candidates should submit the following items by the internal nomination deadline to evelina.tolstykh@ubc.ca:
- Five signed nomination letters, from members of the university community from at least one student, one staff member, one faculty member, and one alumnus/a, with the fifth letter from an internal nominator.
- Three arm’s length, external referee letters in support of the nominee’s suitability for the UKP designation
- UBC CV
If you are nominated as one of the FoM candidates after internal review, the Dean’s letter of nomination will be arranged.
To assist with the preparation of nomination packages, FoM will be using this scoresheet to evaluate our candidates at the Faculty level. It is highly anticipated that reviewers at the university level will also be looking at similar criteria.
For further details, please visit the VP Research website.
If you have any questions, please contact evelina.tolstykh@ubc.ca.