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Dear Colleagues, It gives me tremendous pleasure to share with you the incredible news that Professor Rita Irwin will be receiving the 2023 AERA Outstanding Achievement in Arts and Learning Award from the AERA Arts and Learning SIG. This prestigious award will be presented to Professor Irwin at AERA in Chicago on April 15, 2023. […]

Dear Colleagues, 1. Dr. Sandra Scott has joined the UBC Sustainability Fellowship Program and received an Interdisciplinary Education two-year grant. Sandra will work with Dr. Lindsay Rogers (co-Lead) Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Dr. Douglas Adler (co-applicant), and Sayeed Dyanatkar (Collaborator), UBC Emerging Media Lab, on an immersive interactive media project […]

Dear Colleagues, Please join me in congratulating Dr. David Anderson on his receiving the Ohori Satoshi Memorial Award for Development of Museum Management, from Japan Museum Management Academy (JMMA). The award was presented at the annual conference of JMMA, June 4-5, 2022. The Ohori Satoshi Memorial Award is given annually by JMMA (Japan’s National museum […]

Dear Colleagues, Dr. Jillianne Code and Mr. Marc Bains, co-founders of the HeartLife Foundation, have received a “World Heart Award for Effective Voice of the Year” from the World Heart Federation for their advocacy and education for the Canadian Heart Failure Patient and & Caregiver Charter of Rights. Sincerely, Samson. Dr. Samson Nashon, EdD Department Head & Professor of […]

Dear Colleagues, Please join me in congratulating Dr. Hartley Banack, EDCP, Faculty of Education, Dr. Mariana Brussoni, Department of Paediatrics & School of Population and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, and team, which includes Kailee Hirshe, one of the HOPE MEd students, for being awarded $10,000.00 from the Peter Wall Institute to host virtual roundtables […]

Dear Colleagues, Please join me in congratulating Dr. Karen Lee who has been awarded the 2020 Killam Sessional and Lecturer Teaching Prize. This prestigious award was presented at the May 7th Faculty Meeting. Once again hearty congratulations, Karen! Best, Samson. Dr. Samson Nashon, EdD Department Head & Professor of Science Education

Dear Colleagues, It gives me tremendous pleasure to share with you the incredible news that Dr. Peter Gouzouasis will be receiving the 2020 AERA Outstanding Achievement in Arts and Learning Award from the AERA Arts and Learning SIG. The jurors were greatly impressed with Peter’s work and shared the following feedback: “Peter Gouzouasis has made […]

Dear colleagues, Join me in congratulating Dr. Carl Leggo (posthumously) and Dr. Rita L. Irwin who have been awarded the ARTS (Artists, Researchers and Teachers Society) Publication Award for their refereed article: Leggo, C. & Irwin, R. L. (2018). Ways of attending: Poetry and art. Canadian Review of Art Education, 45(1), 50-76. See: http://crae.mcgill.ca/article/view/48/108 This […]

Congratulations to Shannon Leddy for being awarded a Doctor of Philosophy in Art Education by Simon Fraser University on May 23, 2018. Dr. Leddy started as a tenure-track Instructor in our Department in January 2018. We congratulate you, Dr. Leddy, and are happy to have you as a member of EDCP. Samson Dr. Samson Nashon […]

Colleagues, The History Education Network (Dr. Penney Clark, Director) and the Historical Thinking Project (Dr. Peter Seixas, Director) were featured in a new report from the Conference Board of Canada, Making the Connection: Growing Collegiality and Collaboration Between K-12 and PSE Educators. The two networks together served as one of three case studies used to examine connections […]

Colleagues, Please join me in congratulating Dr. Dónal O’Donoghue who has been selected to receive the 2018 International Edwin Ziegfeld Award.  Presented by The United States Society for Education through Art, the International Edwin Ziegfeld Award honours a colleague from outside of the United States, who has made contributions of international significance to art education. […]

Colleagues, I’m delighted to inform you that Dr. Sandrine Han will be receiving the 2018 British Columbia Art Educator Award from the National Art Education Association (NAEA).  This prestigious award will be presented to Dr. Han at the NAEA meeting in Seattle in March, 2018. Congratulations, Sandrine on this outstanding recognition! Samson Nashon Department Head […]

Congratulations to Drs. Anthony Clarke, Samson Nashon & Anne Phelan who have been recognized by the Dean and Vice Provost of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies for their contributions serving in the role of the chair of doctoral examinations between January and December 2016. We look forward to having more members being recognized.

Dear all, It is with great pleasure that our department recognizes two Best Paper Awards at the STEM 2016 Conference. Milner-Bolotin, M., & Oh, J. (October 28, 2016). A comparative Study of STEM educators’ views of technology: A case of Canada, China and Korea, Paper presented at the 4th STEM in Education Conference, Beijing, China: […]

Dear Colleagues, I am delighted to announce that Dr. Marina Milner-Bolotin has been selected to be an AAPT (American Association of Physics Teachers) Fellow. AAPT Fellowship is a distinct honor signifying recognition by one’s professional peers and is awarded to individuals who have made an exceptional contribution to AAPT’s mission to enhance the understanding and […]