Recent awards and honors

• August 12, 2020

  UCSC historian Greg O’Malley awarded NEH grant for research on slavery in early America

  UCSC history professor Gregory O’Malley has received a Public Scholars Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to write a biography of David George, who was born a slave in 1743 and whose pursuit of freedom intersects with major events of the Revolutionary Era.

• July 21, 2020

  Computer scientist Luca de Alfaro wins ‘test of time’ awards for influential papers

  Luca de Alfaro, professor of computer science and engineering, received 2020 Test-of-Time Awards from the IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS) and the International Conference on Embedded Software (EMSOFT).

• July 15, 2020

  Astrophysics graduate student Diana Powell wins 2020 Ford Fellowship

  Powell won a Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship to support her work as she completes her Ph.D. thesis on exoplanets.

• July 10, 2020

  STEM Diversity Programs honored by ‘Insight into Diversity’ magazine

  'Insight into Diversity' magazine has recognized the STEM Diversity Programs at UC Santa Cruz with its 2020 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award.

• July 1, 2020

  Researchers honored for work in UCSC-NOAA Fisheries Collaborative Program

  Three researchers affiliated with the Institute of Marine Sciences (IMS) at UC Santa Cruz have received awards from the NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center for their outstanding contributions to research in 2019.

• June 17, 2020

  Steck Award recipient helps discover protein involved with circadian clock timing

  Afred Freeberg assisted the Partch lab in studying the molecular basis for circadian rhythms - biological processes that occur naturally in line with the Earth’s 24-hour daily rotation cycle.

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