Awards & Honors

Recent awards and honors

• February 11, 2025

  AAAS names UC Santa Cruz organelle discovery most outstanding paper in 2024

  The discovery by UC Santa Cruz researchers of a new organelle within single-celled algae that converts nitrogen gas into ammonia continues to be celebrated by the science community, this time by winning the prestigious AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize.

• February 11, 2025

  NIH awards Kellogg Lab nearly $3 million to continue research on molecular mechanisms that control cell growth, size

  Doug Kellogg, professor of molecular, cell, and developmental biology at UC Santa Cruz, has been awarded $2.95 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study control of cell growth and size in normal cells—and how it goes wrong in cancer.

• February 7, 2025

  SCIPP scientist Simone Mazza honored with international physics award

  Simone Mazza, an assistant research scientist at the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics (SCIPP), has won an international award that recognizes contributions in the fields of fundamental interactions of matter. Mazza received the 2024 INFN Bruno Toushek Award from the Italian Scientists and Scholars of North America Foundation.

• January 31, 2025

  Explorer society honors Roxanne Beltran for advancing scientific field research, education equity

  Roxanne Beltran, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz, is among 50 people from around the world being honored this year for “doing remarkable work to promote science and exploration.”

• 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.

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