Awards & Honors

Recent awards and honors

• 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.

• October 16, 2024

  Dickens Project gets prestigious $200,000 NEH grant to host institute for high school teachers

  A $200,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities is funding a new Dickens Project initiative, an in-person institute for 25 high school teachers from across the United States. The institute will help teachers consider bold new approaches to teaching Charles Dickens' classic 1861 novel Great Expectations

• 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."

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