Awards & Honors

Recent awards and honors

• March 12, 2025

  Research Corporation for Science Advancement honors Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

  Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz has been named a recipient of the Research Corporation for Science Advancement’s (RCSA) Robert Holland Jr. Award, which honors outstanding contributions to research, leadership, and mentorship in the sciences.

• March 10, 2025

  Biologist Erika Zavaleta receives Science Division’s Outstanding Faculty Award

  The Science Division has announced that Erika Zavaleta, a professor in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department, has won its 2023-24 Outstanding Faculty Award. The annual prize is the division's highest honor for faculty achievement, recognizing combined excellence in research, teaching, and service.

• February 28, 2025

  UC Santa Cruz ocean scientist Adina Paytan honored for international research leadership

  Adina Paytan, a professor in the Earth and Planetary Science Department and the Institute of Marine Science, has been awarded the Tommy and Yvette Edmondson Distinguished Service Award by the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography.

• February 21, 2025

  Phillip Crews honored with inaugural ASP Mentorship Award

  Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Phillip Crews has been selected as the inaugural recipient of the American Society of Pharmacognosy (ASP) Phillip Crews Mentorship Award.

• February 20, 2025

  Professor Catherine S. Ramírez selected as a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar

  Catherine S. Ramírez, a UC Santa Cruz professor and chair of the Latin American and Latino Studies Department, was one of 15 thought leaders selected from top universities across the country to become a 2025-2026 Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar.

• 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.

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