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Faculty Awards & Research Grants

Vantage College faculty members have been recipients of numerous research grants and accolades. Below you will find the list of awards and grants that Vantage faculty members have received since 2012.

Awards & Grants

This page lists awards and grants presented to Vantage College Faculty and Staff. We have included all awards and grants received by Vantage faculty members and these awards/grants may or may not be informed directly by their work in Vantage.

2024

Awards

  • Chan, Tina. UBC Vantage College Staff Award
  • Ferreira, Alfredo; LeBlanc; David, Farrel Ramdhani, Alifais; Zhang, Wucheng. UBC Vantage College Education Innovation Award
  • Lightfoot, Jennifer. UBC Vantage College Teaching Award
  • Sekatchev, Michael. UBC Vantage College TA Award

Grants

2023

Awards

  • Kim, Won. UBC Vantage College Teaching Award
  • Suyanto, Alexander. UBC Vantage College TA Award
  • Wilson, Brian. UBC Vantage College Staff Award

Grants

2022

Awards

Grants

2021

Awards

  • Cook, Alina; Zhang, Wucheng. UBC Vantage College TA Award
  • Lekhi, Anka. UBC Vantage College Teaching Award
  • Potvin, Gabriel. UBC Killam Teaching Award (Faculty of Applied Science).
  • Potvin, Gabriel. Department of Chemical And Biological Engineering Teaching Excellence Award (annually awarded by the CHBE undergraduate student society)
  • Riddell, Katherine. UBC Vantage College Staff Award
  • Walsh Marr, Jennifer & Ferreira, Laila. UBC Vantage College Educational Innovation Award.

Grants

  • Zappa-Hollman, S. Princiapal Investigator. (2021–2024). Academic Socialization of Bi/Multilingual Students: A Multi-Site Case Study at Three Canadian Universities Current. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) – Insight Grant. Co-Investigator; PI Heike Neumann (Concordia); Co-I Saskia Van Viegen (York)

2020

Awards

  • Baik, Sarah; Jiang, Jenny. UBC Vantage College Staff Award
  • Burton, Cayley. UBC Vantage College TA Award
  • Jhangri, Sukh; Hajdukovic, Daniela; Martin, Jodie; Shaw, Weaver; Urquiza, Emiliano; Wilson, Brian. UBC Vantage College Educational Innovation Education Award
  • Potvin, Gabriel. "Department of Chemical And Biological Engineering Teaching Excellence Award" (annually awarded by the CHBE undergraduate student society)
  • UBC Vantage College. 2020 BCCIE Award for Outstanding Program in International Education
  • Walsh Marr, Jennifer. UBC Vantage College Teaching award.

Grants

  • Abelló, J. Principal Investigator. (2020). Embedding wellness and transition to university learning into a first-year calculus sequence. UBC SoTL Seed Fund, 20 hours of GRA support.
  • Rieger, G. Principal Investigator. (2020). An online study space that supports self-regulated learning. UBC TLEF, $13,200
  • Rieger, G. Principal Investigator. (2020). Enhancement and Customization of an Open Physics Textbook for International Students. UBC OER, $23,258
  • Zappa-Hollman, S. Principal Investigator. (2020–2022). A case study of Canadian University instructors’ beliefs, dispositions, and perceptions of ability towards working with emergent multilingual undergraduate learners Current. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) – Insight Development Grant. Graduate Research Assistants: Dmitri Detwyler (UBC), Greta Perris (UBC)
  • Zappa-Hollman, S. Principal Investigator. (2020-2022). Underground literacies: The use of private academic support services by international EAL students Current. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) – Insight Development Grant. Co-Investigator; PI Joel Heng-Hartse (SFU), Co-Investigator Tim Anderson (UVic)
  • Zappa-Hollman, S. Principal Investigator. (2020-2022). Vantage corpus of student texts across the disciplines (Pilot Project). Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) – Explore Grant. Co-investigators: Alfredo Ferreira (UBC), Laura, Baumvol (UBC). Collaborators: Simone Sarmento (UFRGS)

2019

Awards

  • Lyon, Katherine; McPhee, Siobhán; Wilson, Brian. UBC Vantage College Educational Innovation Award.
  • Potvin, Gabriel. Ron Britton Engineering Education Vanguard Award (awarded by the Canadian Engineering Education Association)
  • Potvin, Gabriel. Department of Chemical And Biological Engineering Teaching Excellence Award (annually awarded by the CHBE undergraduate student society)
  • Riccardi, Daniel. UBC Vantage College Teaching Award

Grants

  • Abelló, J. Co-investigator. (2019). Student usage patterns in WeBWorK in second-year engineering. UBC SoTL Seed Fund, 70 hours of GRA support. Principal Investigator Agnes d'Entremont (MECH). Co-investigators Jonathan Verrett (CHBE) and Negar Harandi (SBME).
  • Rieger, G. Principal Investigator. (2019). An online study space that supports self-regulated learning. UBC TLEF, $14,000

2018

Awards

  • Lolliot, Simon. Robert E. Knox Master Teaching Award.
  • Johnson, Kayli. UBC Killam Teaching Prize in the Faculty of Science.
  • Lekhi, Anka. UBC Killam Teaching Prize in the Faculty of Science.
  • Lyon, Katherine. UBC Vantage College Teaching Award
  • Leveridge, Neil; Johnson, Kayli; Wilson, Brian. UBC Vantage College Educational Innovation Award
  • Allen, Meghan. "UBC Department of Computer Science Mentoring Award"
  • Potvin, Gabriel. "Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering Teaching Excellence Award" (annually awarded by the CHBE undergraduate student society)

Grants

  • Lolliot, Simon (Principal Investigator), Varao-Sousa, Trish, & Barnes, Steven (2018). Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Fund, UBC, CTLT. Seating the Scene: Antecedents and Consequences of micro-segregation in the classroom $5000
  • Allen, Meghan. "UBC Faculty of Science Skylight Development Grant project: Developing curriculum for CPSC 107". $1904
  • Berg, Celina. "UBC Faculty of Science Skylight Development Grant project: Web-based tools in prelecture preparation and review, ". $9,400
  • Ives, Joss Principal Investigator (2017) Jared Stang, Co-Investigator. Evidence-based best practices for two-stage collaborative exams, UBC TLEF, year 2, $16,128
  • Lyon, Katherine Principal Investigator (2018), Siobhán McPhee, Brian Wilson, Saeed Dyanatkar, Experiential Learning in Large Enrollment Courses: Designing an Augmented Reality, Geospatial, Gamified Experience in First Year Sociology & Geography UBC TLEF $33,975
  • Rieger, G. Principal Investigator. (2018). Reinsberg, S. Co-Investigator. "Animated worked examples to support self-directed learning in Physics 100". UBC TLEF, year 3 $12,000
  • Peterson, Jenny and Potvin, Gabriel (co-investigators) "New Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Course Creation: Humanitarian Engineering: Politics and Praxis" UBC USI Interdisciplinary Education Grant, $5,000
  • Vaez Ghaemi, Roza, and Potvin, Gabriel "Evaluating the impact of group exams on international student learning" UBC Teaching As Research (TAR) grant, $7,000
  • Prodanovic, Vladan (Principal Investigator), Potvin, Gabriel, Abello, Juan, Motavas, Saloome, Zappa-Hollman, Sandra "Development of online learning modeules as an innovative approach to teaching a Vantage College Engineering course with embedded language and technical communication components" UBC TLEF, $41,000.

2017

Awards

  • Berg, Celina. "UBC Department of Computer Science Teaching Award"
  • Gilley, Brett. UBC Killam Teaching Prize in the Faculty of Science.
  • Kim, Won. UBC Faculty of Education Sessional & Lecturer Teaching Award
  • Potvin, Gabriel. "Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering Teaching Excellence Award" (annually awarded by the CHBE undergraduate student society)
  • Lam, Mark. Robert E. Knox Master Teaching Award.

Grants

  • Berg, Celina. (2015). CWSEI. funding for APSC 160 programming tool development. $4,500
  • Ives, Joss Principal Investigator (2017) Jared Stang, Co-Investigator.Evidence-based best practices for two-stage collaborative exams, UBC TLEF $17,672
  • Motavas, Saloome. Principal Investigator. (2017). UBC University Sustainability Initiative Spotlight Grant. $4,000.
  • Rieger, G. Principal Investigator. (2017). Reinsberg, S. Co-Investigator. "Animated worked examples to support self-directed learning in Physics 100". UBC TLEF $14,184.
  • Allen, Meghan. "UBC Faculty of Science Skylight Development Grant project: Using Appreciative Inquiry to evaluate and improve a first-year computer science course". $4956
  • Saskia Stille Principal Investigator. Sandra Zappa-Hollman Penny Kinnear Li-Shih Huang Co-investigators. Mapping the landscape: Colloquium on language in the Canadian university. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)  - Connection Grant, $16,644

2016

Awards

  • Barnes, Steven. UBC Killam Teaching Prize in the Faculty of Arts
  • Wilson, Brian. BCTEAL Pat Wakefield Scholarship

Grants

  • Allen, Meghan. (2016). TLEF. Evaluating a new, reduced-face-time, first year computer science class for non-majors. $26,731
  • Allen, Meghan. (2016). Developing a needs-based activity to raise awareness of diversity issues and inclusive language use with UBC’s international students. $4,465
  • Berg, Celina. (2015). CWSEI. funding for APSC 160 programming tool development. $7,500
  • Johnson, Kayli. Principal Investigator. (2016). Development of an electronic Chemistry Integrated Resource Package for CHEM 123. TLEF. $39,116
  • Johnson, Kayli. Principal Investigator. (2016). A multimodal learning analytics method to explore video-based learning in CHEM 123. UBC Skylight. 2,912.
  • McPhee, Siobhán. Principal Investigator. TLEF (2016-2017). $4,250.
  • McPhee, Siobhán. Co-Investigator. TLEF (2016-2017). $29,000.
  • McPhee, Siobhán. Principal Investigator. UBC Remote and Rural Community Based Learning Fund (2016). $5, 000.
  • McPhee, Siobhán. Principal Investigator. UBC AURA grant (2016). $4,00.
  • Peterson, Jen. Principal Investigator. (2015-2017) SOTL Seed Fund. On being strategic in selecting active learning techniques: A comparative analysis of pedagogical interventions in the furthering of specific learning objectives. $1,000.
  • Rieger, G. Principal Investigator. (2016). Reinsberg, S & Tovar, M. Co-Investigators. UBC TLEF. Animated worked examples in online homework. $14,232.

2015

Awards

  • Barnes, Steven. Awarded top 10% of Instructors in the Faculty of Arts for 2015.
  • Gilley, Brett. Nominated by the University for the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Brightspace Innovation Award, 2015.

Grants

  • Allen, Meghan. (2015). CSSEI. funding for CPSC 103 development. $14,899
  • Allen, Meghan. (2015). CSSEI. Funding for CPSC 110 lab redesign. $3600
  • Allen, Meghan. (2015). Vantage College. Development funding to work on updating and creating materials for the Computer Science content and language tutorials. $2,040
  • Bates, S. Principal Investigator. Rieger, G. Collaborator. Reinsberg, S. Collaborator. (2015-2017). UBC TLEF. An open flip – PHYS 100 aspect. $45,566.
  • Fox, J.A., & Welsh, A. (co-authors). Principal Investigator. (2015). Exploring international students' perceptions and use of peer review in a first-year science communications course. $1000 and 80 hrs. of GRA funding.
  • Ives, J. Co-Investigator. TLEF (2015). Developing Critical Thinking in First Year Physics Labs. $25,700.
  • Ives, J. & Rieger, G. Principal Investigators. (2015) Mitacs. Can Learning Catalytics Replace Clickers? $15,000.
  • Ives, J., Renani, F.R. & Rieger, G. Principal Investigators. (2015) Mitacs . A “flipped” approach to large-scale first-year physics labs. $13,770.
  • Ives, J. Principal Investigator. (2015). UBC TA Training Grant. TA Training Grant for the Department of Physics and Astronomy. $20,033.
  • Ives, J. Collaborator. (2015). TLEF. Introductory Statistics. $140,459.
  • McPhee, Siobhán. Principal Investigator. (2015-2016). TLEF . $16,200.
  • McPhee, Siobhán. Co-Investigator. (2015-2016). TLEF. $16,200.
  • McPhee, Siobhán. Principal Investigator. (2015). UBC Remote and Rural Community Based Learning Fund . $5,000.
  • McPhee, Siobhán. Principal Investigator. (2015). UBC Arts HSS grant (renewed from previous year). $3,500.
  • Rieger, G. Principal Investigator. (2015). TLEF. A “flipped” approach to large-scale first-year physics labs. $13,770.
  • Rieger, G.W. (Co-applicant). An open flip –  PHYS 100 aspect, UBC FL-TLEF $45,556
  • Zappa-Hollman, S. Co-Investigator. (2015). Rits-LLED Seed Grant. Supporting in-service teachers' implementation of a functional approach to English for academic purpose. $5,000
  • Zappa-Hollman, S. Principal Investigator. (2015). Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Fund, UBC, CTLT. Examining the effectiveness of content and language tutorials (VANT 140) in supporting international students' academic English development. $5,000.
  • Zappa-Hollman, S. Principal Investigator. (2015). TLEF. Cultivating success for English as an additional language students: a library flexible learning partnership. $29,059
  • Wilson,B. Principal Investigator. Anka Lehki, Siobhan McPhee, Sandra Zappa-Hollman, Alfredo Ferreira Co-investigators. (2015). Developing a training program for new UBC Vantage College TAs, UBC TA Training Program Fund (CTLT). $12,520

2014

Awards

  • Gilley, Brett. EOAS Undergraduate Teaching Award, UBC, 2014.
  • Lam, Mark. Belkin Prize (PhD thesis), UBC, 2014
  • Welsh, Ashley: International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Graduate Student Poster Award, 2014.
  • Welsh, Ashley: UBC Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award, 2014.
  • Welsh, Ashley: Science Education Research Group Graduate Student Paper Award (Canadian Society for the Study of Education), 2014.
  • Welsh, Ashley: Donald and Ellen Poulter Scholarship, 2014.
  • Kim, Won. UBC Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award

Grants

  • Welsh, Ashley: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Fellowship, 2012-2014.
  • Zappa-Hollman, Sandra. Principal Investigator. (2014). Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Fund, UBC, CTLT. Examining the effectiveness of content and language tutorials (VANT 140) in supporting international students' academic English development. $5,000
  • Zappa-Hollman, Sandra. Co-applicant. (2014). UBC TA Training Program Fund. Developing a training program for new UBC Vantage College TAs. $12, 520.
  • Zappa-Hollman, Sandra. Principal Investigator. (2014). UBC Junior Hampton Grant . A critical examination of collaboration between English for academic purposes and subject-area instructors embracing a content and language integrated learning model. $9,020

2013

Awards

  • Fox, Joanne. UBC Killam Teaching Prize in the Faculty of Science.

2012

Awards

  • Leung, Fok-Shuen. UBC Killam Teaching Prize in the Faculty of Science
  • Lavallee, Suzie. UBC Killam Teaching Prize in Faculty of Forestry
  • Kim, Won. UBC Rick Hansen Man in Motion Fellowship

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