Awards & Honors

Recent awards and honors

• September 18, 2024

  UC Santa Cruz astronomer delivers keynote speech for Mexico's National Council of Humanities, Sciences and Technologies

  The council chose Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz as the final speaker in the series, which leads up to the inauguration of Mexico's new president on October 1, in honor of his distinguished career and accomplishments that followed his public education and training in Mexico.

• September 18, 2024

  Postdoc Will Steinhardt wins early-career award for innovative earthquake-physics research

  The American Geophysical Union (AGU) has presented UC Santa Cruz postdoctoral scholar Will Steinhardt with its 2024 Jason P. Morgan Early Career Award honoring outstanding and significant contributions to tectonophysics through a combination of research, education, and outreach activities.

• September 17, 2024

  2023 astronomy Ph.D. graduate honored for dissertation work, mentoring and leadership

  The Astronomical Society of the Pacific has honored recent UC Santa Cruz Ph.D. graduate Maggie Thompson for research "considered unusually important to astronomy."

• September 16, 2024

  ARCS Foundation 2024 scholarships support outstanding graduate students in science and engineering

  Sixteen outstanding UC Santa Cruz graduate students in science and engineering fields earned scholarships worth a total of $180,000 from the Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Foundation for the 2024-25 academic year.

• September 12, 2024

  Celebrating the 2024 UCSC Alumni Awards recipients

  The UC Santa Cruz Alumni Association is proud to present this year’s UCSC Alumni Awards honorees: George M. Kraw, Keith Curry, Jacob Martinez, Kamari Maxine Clarke, Paul Fielder, and Neroli Devaney.

• September 12, 2024

  National Academy of Education awarded Josephine H. Pham the Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship

  Josephine H. Pham, Assistant Professor of Critical Studies in Education at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has been awarded the prestigious National Academy of Education Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship.

• August 30, 2024

  Getoor wins major data mining award

  Lise Getoor, UC Santa Cruz Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, was honored with the ACM SIGKDD Innovation Award.

• August 29, 2024

  Genomics Institute researcher Melissa Cline to lead efforts to facilitate diagnosis of genetic diseases

  Genomics Institute associate research scientist Melissa Cline will serve as the co-lead of the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health’s Genomic Knowledge Standards Work Stream.

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