RSVP: Challenges, changes and research: insights from UBC’s University Killam Professors

You are invited to the in-person University Killam Professors celebration and reception on November 12, 2025.

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In this time of global uncertainty and unrest, the role of research is more crucial than ever. Meet UBC’s three newest University Killam Professors—recipients of the highest honour UBC can confer on faculty members—as they explore the local and worldwide impact of their innovative research in biological, socio-political, and legal systems. Attend this illuminating session to discover how their research is both being shaped by, and could help respond to, the shifting global landscape.  

This UBC Dialogues event is presented by alumni UBC and the Office of the Vice-President, Research & Innovation.

Speakers: 
Professors Isabel Grant (Peter A. Allard School of Law), Marco Marra (Department of Medical Genetics/Michael Smith Laboratories), and Jamie Peck (Department of Geography)
Moderator: 
Professor Gail C. Murphy, Vice-President, Research and Innovation

Professors Marco Marra, Isabel Grant and Jamie Peck against a decorative black and gold background

November 12, 2025
The Chan Centre for the Performing Arts
5:30pm-6:45pm - Panel Discussion
7:00pm-8:00pm - Reception

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Since 1965, the Killam Trusts have awarded scholarships, fellowships, prizes, and other funding to more than 8,000 Killam Laureates around the world. In Canada, the Killam name is synonymous with financial support for advanced studies. The Killam Trusts, established by Dorothy Johnston Killam and Izaak Walton Killam, benefit the University of British Columbia, the Canada Council for the Arts, Dalhousie University, The Neuro (Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital), University of Alberta, and the University of Calgary. More than 2,000 UBC professors, fellows, students, and scholars have received Killam support for their research and scholarship. Every Killam scholar makes a unique contribution, creating and disseminating knowledge that has global impact.

 

First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that UBC’s two main campuses are situated within the ancestral and unceded territory of the Musqueam people, and in the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples.

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