Awards & Honors
UC Santa Cruz ranked among top schools for game design
As in past years, UC Santa Cruz is featured on Princeton Review's 2018 lists for top undergraduate and graduate programs in game design. more »
Recent awards and honors
March 11, 2019Graduate student joins White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
Marnie Riddle, a Ph.D. candidate in environmental studies, will spend one year in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy as a John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellow.
February 22, 2019Seymour Center honors alumnus John Laird with Global Oceans Award
The Seymour Marine Discovery Center will honor Laird at the Global Oceans Gala on Saturday, March 23.
February 13, 2019Grad student Sara Gonzalez wins policy award from Ecological Society of America
Sara Gonzalez, a Ph.D. student in ecology and evolutionary biology, is among the recipients of the Katherine S. McCarter Graduate Student Policy Awards from the Ecological Society of America.
February 12, 2019Astrophysicist Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz wins AAS/HEAD Mid-Career Prize
The 2019 HEAD Mid-Career Prize recognizes Ramirez-Ruiz "for his key contributions to our physical understanding of transient phenomena involving compact objects."
February 5, 2019Three UCSC undergrads honored for presentations at national astronomy meeting
Three UCSC undergraduates were among the winners of the Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Awards at the American Astronomical Society meeting.
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