# University Killam Professors

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The highest honour UBC can confer on a faculty member, a University Killam Professorship recognizes exceptional teachers and researchers who are leaders in their fields, and who have received international recognition for their talents and efforts.

A University Killam Professor will continue to hold the designation for as long as they remain a tenured faculty member at the University. After retirement, such individual will be entitled to refer to themselves as a “University Killam Professor Emeritus/Emerita”

#### 2024/25

- Isabel Grant, Peter A. Allard School of Law
- Marco Marra, Department of Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine & Michael Smith Laboratories
- Jamie Peck, Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts

Read the announcement [here](https://research.ubc.ca/UKP-2425).

#### 2022/23

- Nemy Banthia, Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science
- Dominic McIver Lopes, Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts
- Natalie Strynadka, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine

Read the news announcement and listen to the audio recording from the celebratory speaker event [here](https://academic.ubc.ca/node/3771).

#### 2020/21

- Janice Eng, Department of Physical Therapy, Faculty of Medicine
- Tina Loo, Department of History, Faculty of Arts
- Bonny Norton, Department of Language & Literacy Education, Faculty of Education
- Dolph Schluter, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science
- Rashid Sumaila, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, Faculty of Science, and School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, Faculty of Arts
- Dominique Weis, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Faculty of Science

Read the news announcement [here](https://academic.ubc.ca/node/3489).

#### 2016/2017

- Sally Otto, Department of Zoology
- Daniel Pauly, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries
- Janet Werker, Department of Psychology

Read the news announcement [here](https://academic.ubc.ca/node/2765).

#### 2015/2016

- Robert E.W. Hancock, Department of Microbiology and Immunology
- Julio Montaner, Department of Medicine
- Loren Rieseberg, Department of Botany

#### 2010/2011

- Sherrill E. Grace, Department of English (Emerita)

#### 2004/2005

- Robert Evans, Department of Economics (Emeritus)
- David Jones, Department of Zoology (Deceased)

#### 2003/2004

- Ian K. Affleck, Department of Physics and Astronomy (Deceased)
- David Dolphin, Department of Chemistry (Emeritus)
- Michael Hayden, Department of Medical Genetics Director

#### 2001/2002

- Peter W. Hochachka, Department of Zoology (Deceased)
- William H. New, Department of English (Emeritus)

#### 1996/1997

- Kalevi Holsti, Department of Political Science (Emeritus)

#### 1995/1996

- Patricia Baird, Department of Medical Genetics (Emerita)
- Michael Smith, Biochemistry (Deceased)