March 8, 2022
Dr. Sheryl Staub-French, a professor of civil engineering, and Dr. Sabrina Wong, a professor of nursing, have been named recipients of the UBC Envisioning Equality award.
Aimed at celebrating exceptional women and gender-diverse faculty and staff at UBC, the award is given to five faculty members and five staff members who "have demonstrated outstanding contributions to their individual academic/professional practice and significant impact through mentoring and community engagement."
As part of the Envisioning Equality project, Dr. Staub-French, Dr. Wong and the other awardees will be featured on a series of street banners designed by a local artist and displayed along one of UBC's main campus arteries next year. Through this public art component, the project seeks to "[activate] new perspectives on their roles and contributions."
"For over a century, women and gender-diverse faculty and staff at the University of British Columbia have been making significant contributions to the institution," said Moura Quayle, Vice-Provost and Associate Vice-President, Academic Affairs, Office of the Provost and Vice-President Academic (UBC Vancouver). "Our ten Envisioning Equality recipients have each contributed so much to the world in which we live, building community, understanding and innovation with everything they do."
Dr. Staub-French was recognized for her work not only as an academic researcher, but also as the first Associate Dean of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in UBC Applied Science and leader of the youth engineering outreach program Geering Up. In their citation for Dr. Wong, the award committee described her as "a scholar at the forefront of the population and public health field, and a leader in community initiatives in health and health equity."
For further details about the award and its recipients, please see the official announcement on the website of UBC's Office of the Provost & Vice-President Academic. More information about Dr. Wong can be found in UBC Nursing's announcement.
