Dear Campus Community,
I am happy to announce that nominations are open for the Chancellor’s Innovation Impact Awards Program (IIAP) Innovator of the Year category. This program celebrates UC Santa Cruz’s faculty, researchers, staff, students, and community partners and the transformational work they do. Through their research and creative scholarship, they are finding innovative solutions to the most pressing global challenges and opening new ways of expression. This transformative work is happening across the arts, engineering, humanities, physical and biological science and social sciences.
The Innovator of the Year award recognizes a faculty member and associated project team, that may include staff and students, for their work on an innovation that, in the past 12 months, has resulted in a demonstrated societal impact or has reached a key milestone that positions the innovation for near-term societal impact. The lead faculty member’s lab or project receives a $10,000 research award to further advance their innovative work.
All faculty, staff, and students are invited to submit nominations; no self-nominations will be accepted. The deadline is Friday, November 15. The awardees will be announced on May 1, 2025.
I hope you will join me in honoring the contributions of UC Santa Cruz community members to our campus and far beyond by submitting a nomination for the Innovator of the Year.
Sincerely,
John
John MacMillan
Vice Chancellor for Research
