Prestigious national and international awards

Prestigious national and international awards

UC Santa Cruz has earned national and international recognition for excellence in research and world-class teaching. Faculty include one Nobel laureate, two of the University of California’s honored University Professors, 29 members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 14 members of the National Academy of Sciences, and 35 members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Recognition of outstanding research has resulted in steady increases in contracts, grants, and private funding across all five divisions. UCSC faculty and researchers have received more than $100 million annually in external funding over the past five years, totaling more than $1.2 billion over the past 10 years.

Award Current All-Time
American Academy of Arts and Sciences 29 41
American Academy in Rome 1 2
American Association for the Advancement of Science 39 46
American Chemical Society 3 3
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship 16 20
American Geophysical Union 8 8
American Philosophical Society 2 4
American Physical Society 10 11
California Academy of Sciences Fellows' Medal 2 3
California Book Award 2 2
Carnegie Fellowship 1 1
Ford Foundation Fellowship 6 9
Franklin Institute Awards 2 2
Fulbright Scholarship 79 96
Guggenheim Fellowship 41 55
IEEE Fellowship Program 4 6
Kavli Prize 1 1
MacArthur Fellowship 5 8
National Academy of Inventors (NAI) 4 4
National Academy of Sciences 14 26
National Book Awards 2 2
National Endowment for the Arts 1 1
National Endowment for the Humanities 2 2
National Medal of Science 1 1
Newcomb Cleveland Prize 2 2
NSF Early Career Development Program 3 4
Packard Fellowship 9 12
Presidential Early Career Award for Science and Engineering 4 6
Residency at the National Humanities Center 2 2
Rockefeller Fellowship 5 8
Searle Scholar 2 2
Sloan Fellowship 38 45
UC Presidential Chair 12 12
United States Artists Fellowship 3 3

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