Awards & Honors

Recent awards and honors

• January 15, 2025

  2024 Outstanding Staff Award honoree seeks to lift campus educators as leaders driving equitable change

  Kendra Dority, director of graduate student and postdoc professional development at the Teaching and Learning Center, has been awarded the 2024 Outstanding Staff Award. "I am proud to be part of a team that is so dedicated to supporting the teaching community at UC Santa Cruz,”

• December 17, 2024

  Campus secures funding for innovative research projects addressing climate action and linguistic diversity

  Two cutting-edge research projects led by the University of California, Santa Cruz have been awarded funding through the University of California’s Multicampus Research Programs and Initiatives (MRPI). This underscores the university's leadership in advancing creative and impactful solutions to global challenges.

• December 10, 2024

  Mark Akeson elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors

  UC Santa Cruz Professor Emeritus of Biomolecular Engineering Mark Akeson has been named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.

• December 4, 2024

  UC Santa Cruz innovators recognized for impact at 2024 Santa Cruz Works Titans Awards

  Two UC Santa Cruz faculty members, Richard (Ed) Green and Chris Benner, have been selected as awardees for the eighth annual Santa Cruz Works Titans Awards

• November 14, 2024

  Creating enchantment in Senegal

  UC Santa Cruz Humanities Professor Gina Athena Ulysse was invited to participate as a featured artist for the prestigious Dakar Biennale (Dak'Art), which the New York Times called “Africa’s hottest art event” and “Africa’s most prominent cultural gathering.”

• November 5, 2024

  American Mathematical Society names Professor Chongying Dong a 2025 Fellow

  Chongying Dong, distinguished professor of mathematics at UC Santa Cruz, is among 41 mathematical scientists around the world who were recently named to the American Mathematical Society’s class of fellows for 2025.

• October 17, 2024

  Former UC Santa Cruz physicist Michael Riordan honored for historical narratives of his field

  The American Physical Society awarded former UC Santa Cruz physicist Michael Riordan on October 15 with its Abraham Pais Prize for History of Physics.

• October 17, 2024

  California Academy of Sciences Honors Dan Costa with Fellows Medal

  The California Academy of Sciences presented UC Santa Cruz’s Dan Costa, distinguished professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, with its highest honor at an awards ceremony on October 15.

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