Awards & Honors

Recent awards and honors

• January 27, 2025

  UC Santa Cruz Innovation Catalyst Grant program propels research into real-world solutions

  UC Santa Cruz has announced the Innovation Catalyst Grant proof-of-concept program awardees, showcasing the campus’s commitment to fostering transformative research with significant societal benefits.

• January 22, 2025

  Luca de Alfaro selected as 2024 ACM fellow

  Professor of Computer Science and Engineering Luca de Alfaro has been selected a 2024 fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), one of the most prestigious recognitions in the computing field.

• January 21, 2025

  Students make winning videos about importance of federal support for science research

  Impactful scientific discovery isn't possible without funding to support the research, and three UC Santa Cruz students have created short videos that took top prizes in a national competition held by the Science Coalition, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to sustaining the federal government’s investment in basic scientific research.

• January 21, 2025

  Five student projects funded through the 2024-25 CITRIS Tech for Social Good Program

  The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) at UC Santa Cruz has selected five student projects for funding through the 2024-25 CITRIS Tech for Social Good Program.

• January 17, 2025

  American Astronomical Society honors four UC Santa Cruz affiliates at national meeting

  At this week's AAS national meeting, the society named UC Observatories Director Bruce Macintosh and two alumni, Laura Lopez and Mark Phillips, among the 24 new fellows chosen for 2025.

• January 15, 2025

  2024 Outstanding Staff Award honoree seeks to lift campus educators as leaders driving equitable change

  Kendra Dority, director of graduate student and postdoc professional development at the Teaching and Learning Center, has been awarded the 2024 Outstanding Staff Award. "I am proud to be part of a team that is so dedicated to supporting the teaching community at UC Santa Cruz,”

• December 17, 2024

  Campus secures funding for innovative research projects addressing climate action and linguistic diversity

  Two cutting-edge research projects led by the University of California, Santa Cruz have been awarded funding through the University of California’s Multicampus Research Programs and Initiatives (MRPI). This underscores the university's leadership in advancing creative and impactful solutions to global challenges.

• December 10, 2024

  Mark Akeson elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors

  UC Santa Cruz Professor Emeritus of Biomolecular Engineering Mark Akeson has been named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.

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