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2013 Awards and Honors

December 11, 2013
Game designer Brenda Romero among top ten game developers of 2013
Program director for the M.S. in games and playable media is featured on a list of the "Top 10 Game Developers of 2013."
December 11, 2013
Computer engineer Roberto Manduchi honored with 'test of time' award
Roberto Manduchi won a Helmholtz Test-of-Time Award from the International Conference on Computer Vision.
December 10, 2013
Chemist Ilan Benjamin elected Fellow of American Physical Society
Ilan Benjamin, professor and chair of chemistry, has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
November 26, 2013
UCSC computer engineer Katia Obraczka elected IEEE Fellow
Katia Obraczka, professor of computer engineering, has been elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
November 22, 2013
Professor J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves elected to Mexican Academy of Sciences
Professor of computer engineering J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves has been elected a corresponding member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences.
November 19, 2013
Nathaniel Deutsch wins book award from Association for Jewish Studies
Nathaniel Deutsch, professor of history and co-director of UCSC’s Center for Jewish Studies, has received the 2013 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award from the Association for Jewish Studies
November 18, 2013
Grace Delgado wins two Western History Association awards
Assistant professor of history Grace Peña Delgado is the recipient of two awards from the Western History Association
November 18, 2013
Computer scientist Phokion Kolaitis wins 'test of time' award for 2003 paper
The International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT) presented the 2013 Test of Time Award to Phokion Kolaitis, professor of computer science.
November 12, 2013
UCSC honors arts alums in Film/TV at Hollywood event
Renewing the connection from campus to professional life, a high profile group of UCSC arts alums working in the entertainment and film industry gathered at West Hollywood's Soho House.
October 31, 2013
Biologist Manuel Ares receives Outstanding Faculty Award
Biology professor Manuel Ares has received the 2012-13 Outstanding Faculty Award from the Division of Physical and Biological Sciences.
October 22, 2013
Humanities Division’s Rothman Award honors freshman writing students
UCSC student Alma Morales and her writing instructor Steven Carter were awarded first place for Morales’s essay, "Nina de Mexico, Student of America--Daughter of Nowhere" in the 2012-13 Don Rothman Writing Awards.
October 21, 2013
Boldness and vision: Frank Gehry talks about creative risks and 'serious play' at UCSC Foundation Forum
During Friday's Foundation Forum, one of the featured events of UCSC's Founders Celebration, the legendary architect spoke candidly about his career.
October 17, 2013
UCSC astrophysicist Charlie Conroy wins prestigious Packard Fellowship
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation has awarded a Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering to astrophysicist Charlie Conroy.
October 16, 2013
Paul Koch honored as a Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences
Paul Koch, dean of physical and biological sciences, has been named a Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences
October 10, 2013
Social Sciences division honors teaching, staff, and scholarship
Marianna Santana received the Outstanding Staff Award for 2012-2013 and Gregory Gilbert the Golden Apple teaching award Wednesday as the UC Santa Cruz Division of Social Sciences held its annual fall staff and faculty breakfast.
October 07, 2013
Sociology's Reinarman wins local ACLU's 'Hammer of Justice Award'
Craig Reinarman, professor of sociology at UC Santa Cruz, was presented with the "Hammer of Justice Award" by the Santa Cruz chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union.
September 11, 2013
Two UCSC film students receive Princess Grace awards
UCSC graduate students Lena Jackson and Claire Miyamoto have each been awarded a 2013 Princess Grace Foundation Honorarium in the category of documentary film.
August 30, 2013
History professor receives ACLS Fellowship to research ‘history of future’ in Mexico
UCSC associate professor of history Matt O’Hara has received a 2013-14 fellowship of $45,000 from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) to write and additionally research his upcoming book titled “The History of the Future in Mexico.”
August 23, 2013
Two UCSC alumni win prestigious science teaching fellowships
Alumni Rick Barlow and Melissa Meloy won teaching fellowships from the Knowles Science Teaching Foundation.
August 22, 2013
UCSC on top-25 list of LGBT-friendly campuses
UCSC was included on a top-25 list developed by Campus Pride, a national organization dedicated to making colleges and universities safer and more inclusive spaces for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals.
August 13, 2013
Film grad promoting documentary that won chancellor’s award
Last May, UCSC graduate student Sadia Halima received the Chancellor’s Research Award for her thesis film Laal Pari/The Red Fairy, a documentary addressing women’s participation in politics at the grassroots level in rural India. Her documentary has now been accepted for screening at several international film festivials
August 07, 2013
CGHub honored for innovation in information technology
The UCSC Cancer Genomics Hub (CGHub) received an honorable mention for the 2013 Larry Sautter Award for Innovation in Information Technology.
August 06, 2013
UCSC receives highest score on Princeton Review's 'Green Honor Roll'
UC Santa Cruz is one of 22 colleges and universities to receive Princeton Review's highest score (99) in its sixth "Green Ratings."
August 06, 2013
Royal Astronomical Society honors astronomer Sandra Faber
The Royal Astronomical Society has awarded astronomer Sandra Faber an Honorary Fellowship of the RAS.
August 01, 2013
Psychology professor Phillip Hammack wins early career award
UC Santa Cruz associate professor of psychology Phillip Hammack is one of two winners of the 2013 Erik Erikson Early Career Award from the International Society of Political Psychology.
July 31, 2013
UCSC awarded three NEH grants for Humanities projects
UC Santa Cruz has received three grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to support humanities projects in the Literature Department.
July 30, 2013
Earth scientist Casey Moore elected fellow of the American Geophysical Union
AGU fellows are a select group of distinguished scientists who have made exceptional scientific contributions in the field of Earth science.
July 10, 2013
Latin American and Latino Studies professor wins career enhancement fellowship
Sylvanna Falcón, assistant professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at UC Santa Cruz, has been awarded a yearlong Career Enhancement Fellowship for junior faculty administered by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.
July 09, 2013
Campus honors 'best of the best' with year-end teaching awards
Seven faculty members from UCSC received the 2012-13 Excellence in Teaching Awards during a recent campus ceremony.
July 08, 2013
Anthropology's Triloki Pandey wins excellence in teaching award
UC Santa Cruz anthropology professor Triloki Pandey has been named winner of the Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award given by the American Anthropological Association and Oxford University Press.
June 28, 2013
Founders Celebration to honor architect Frank Gehry
Frank Gehry, widely considered one of the most important and influential architects of our time, will receive the Foundation Medal during the seventh annual Founders Celebration in October.
June 21, 2013
High school student's work in UCSC lab earns Intel Science Fair prize
Eesha Khare, a student at Lynbrook High School in San Jose, won a $50,000 science fair prize for work carried out in Yat Li's chemistry lab.
June 21, 2013
UCSC scientist attends White House ceremony honoring open science
David Haussler attended a White House event highlighting Open Science "Champions of Change."
June 13, 2013
Health sciences grad Aaron Surrey earns Sutter medical school scholarship
Health sciences grad Aaron Surrey will receive the 7th annual Primary Care Physician Award.
June 12, 2013
Steck Award winner shares stories of survival
Kristoffer Hellén traveled to Europe and Russia, to find out why two small and vulnerable ethnic groups resist assimilation, hold onto their cultures, and survive. Now he is being recognized with one of UCSC's highest undergraduate honors.
June 11, 2013
UCSC ranked in top 10 for 'City Year-AmeriCorps' participation
UC Santa Cruz students have a strong desire to give back. Supporting that fact is a new ranking that includes the campus among the top 10 feeder schools for City Year’s 2013-2014 corps.
June 10, 2013
Ten social science majors win undergraduate honor awards
Social Sciences Dean Sheldon Kamieniecki presented 10 students with social sciences majors with awards for their senior theses as part of his 2012-2013 undergraduate awards competition. Three of the students also won chancellor's awards.
May 31, 2013
Linguistics professor receives Dizikes Award for teaching in Humanities
Linguistics professor Donka Farkas was presented with the 2013 John Dizikes Teaching Award in Humanities yesterday at the Humanities Division’s Spring Awards Celebration.
May 31, 2013
Congressman Farr honors Sandy Faber at Senate meeting
U.S. Congressman Sam Farr paid a surprise visit to the May 29 meeting of UCSC's Academic Senate in order to pay tribute to astronomer Sandra Faber.
May 14, 2013
Graduate Research Symposium awards recognize top presentations
Outstanding presentations at the Graduate Research Symposium were honored at the Awards Reception.
May 08, 2013
Psychology grad wins research award typically given to graduate students
Lauren Brande, (Porter, '11, psychology) won a best abstract award May 3 at the annual meeting of the Western Psychological Association in Reno.
May 08, 2013
Psychology professor Phillip Hammack wins W.T. Grant Foundation grant
Phillip Hammack, UC Santa Cruz associate professor of psychology, is one of five young professors in the U.S. selected for five-year $350,000 research grants from the William T. Grant Scholars program.
May 08, 2013
UCSC physicist Michael Nauenberg wins UC distinguished emeriti award
Michael Nauenberg, professor emeritus of physics at UC Santa Cruz, has been honored with the 2013 Constantine Panunzio Distinguished Emeriti Award.
May 03, 2013
Three ENVS graduate students receive NSF graduate research fellowships
Three Environmental Studies doctoral students have been awarded National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships for 2013.
April 24, 2013
Two psychology graduate students win NSF research fellowships
Two UC Santa Cruz graduate students in the developmental psychology program have been awarded prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships.
April 22, 2013
UCSC honored as a 'highest score' campus in new green-school rankings
UC Santa Cruz is one of 21 colleges to receive the highest possible score in Princeton Review's new rankings of environmentally friendly schools.
April 19, 2013
UCSC alumna wins prestigious 2013 Guggenheim
UCSC 1993 graduate Brenda Shaughnessy has been awarded a 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship for the creative arts in poetry. She returns to campus for Alumni Weekend events, including a free public reading on April 25.
April 19, 2013
Mathematics lecturer Richard Mitchell wins teaching award
Richard Mitchell, a lecturer in mathematics, has received an Excellence in Teaching Award from the Phi Beta Kappa Northern California Association.
April 15, 2013
Ecologist Mark Carr to give Ricketts Memorial Lecture at sanctuary symposium
Marine ecologist Mark Carr will give the Ricketts Memorial Lecture at the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary's annual symposium.
April 10, 2013
Second Gabe Zimmerman scholarship winner is sociology major
Carson Watts, an Oakes College sociology major and politics minor, has been selected as the second winner of the Gabriel Zimmerman Memorial Scholarship at UC Santa Cruz.
March 28, 2013
Gary Young wins 2013 Lucille Medwick Memorial Award
UCSC humanities lecturer and alumnus Gary Young has received the 2013 Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America (PSA) for best original poem on a humanitarian theme.
March 27, 2013
Model UN competitor wins 'verbal acclamation' award
Kelsey Hill, a first-year history major affiliated with Kresge College, won a Verbal Acclamation Award at the UC Berkeley Model United Nations Conference held earlier this month in San Francisco.
March 27, 2013
Marine scientist Adina Paytan receives prestigious international award
IMS researcher Adina Paytan has been awarded the Excellence Award of the Werner Petersen Foundation.
March 26, 2013
Scholarship program wins archaeology society's president's award
UCSC professor Diane Gifford-Gonzalez's effort to create a scholarship fund for students from underrepresented groups has won the President's Recognition Award from the Society for American Archaeology.
March 21, 2013
Computer History Museum honors UCSC computer scientist Harry Huskey
Harry D. Huskey, professor emeritus of computer science at UCSC, will receive the 2013 Fellow Award from the Computer History Museum.
March 14, 2013
UCSC Cancer Genomics Hub wins 2013 Innovations in Networking Award
CGHub has been honored by CENIC with the 2013 Innovations in Networking Award for High-Performance Research Applications.
March 05, 2013
UCSC Swim Team honors at Conference Championships
Congratulations are in order for the UCSC Men's and Women's Swimming and Diving Team, who recently returned from the Pacific Collegiate Swim and Dive Conference Championships at the Splash Regional Aquatics Center
February 25, 2013
UCSC arts alumnus wins Academy Award
UC Santa Cruz alumnus Rick Carter won an Oscar Sunday for production design on Steven Speilberg’s acclaimed film, Lincoln. This marks the second academy award for the former UCSC art major.
February 20, 2013
Alison Galloway wins forensic anthropology career achievement award
Alison Galloway, professor of anthropology and campus provost/executive vice chancellor at UC Santa Cruz, is winner of the highest honor offered by the Physical Anthropology Section of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences.
February 14, 2013
UCSC astrophysicist Charlie Conroy wins Sloan Research Fellowship
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship to Charlie Conroy, assistant professor of astronomy and astrophysics.
February 01, 2013
Astronomer Sandra Faber honored in White House ceremony
President Barack Obama presented astronomer Sandra Faber with the National Medal of Science in a White House ceremony on Friday.
January 23, 2013
Astronomer Mark Krumholz awarded AAS Warner Prize
Astronomer Mark Krumholz has been chosen to receive the 2013 Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy.
January 10, 2013
Monk seal book wins AAAS/Subaru prize for young adult science book
A book about Hawaiian monk seals by marine biologist Terrie Williams has received a prize for excellence in science books.
January 09, 2013
Music professor Linda Burman-Hall to receive Gail Rich Award
UC Santa Cruz professor of music Linda Burman-Hall will be one of six community members honored at the 17th annual Gail Rich Awards, Wednesday, January 23 at the Rio Theater in Santa Cruz.