Governor General's Gold Medal

Graduate Programs

Graduate programs must check with their respective Dean’s Office for their Faculty’s internal nomination deadline. Internal nomination deadlines are normally several weeks before the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies deadline. Each graduate program nomination must include the following:

• Application form filled out by the student
• All university-level transcripts (original or certified true copy of official transcripts from universities other than UBC; copy of Academic History from SISC will be accepted in place of official UBC transcript)
• Copy of External Examiner’s report on doctoral dissertation
• Letter of support from thesis supervisor
• Letter of support from Department Head

Faculty Dean’s Offices

Deans review nominations submitted by their graduate programs and nominate up to two students to the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, one for the Master’s medal and one for the doctoral medal. Each Faculty nomination must include the following:

• Cover memo with the names of the recommended students and a brief description of the Faculty’s internal review process and the rationale for ranking candidates
• Nomination package for each student as submitted by graduate program (see section above)

Nomination materials may be submitted as hard-copy or electronic files. If you plan to submit nomination materials electronically, please contact marija.zimonja@ubc.ca. Given UBC’s increased emphasis on the protection of personal privacy, G+PS will not accept electronic files via email. Rather, we will create a shared folder in Workspace and provide instructions for uploading files.

The deadline for disciplinary Faculties to submit their nominations to G+PS is 4:00 p.m. on Friday, 8 March 2019.