Awards & Honors

Recent awards and honors

• June 29, 2022

  ~$6M NSF grant for cyber-physical systems project will enable engineers to explore the next generation of transportation systems

  With the support of a nearly $6 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), researchers at UC Santa Cruz will lead a five year, multi-institutional project to explore a new vision of engineering cyber-physical systems.

• June 27, 2022

  Campus recognizes innovative, dedicated teachers

  The Academic Senate’s Committee on Teaching (COT) in collaboration with Chancellor Larive and CP/EVC Kletzer, Cruz celebrated UCSC’s innovative and dedicated teachers with a gathering at the Cowell Provost House in early June.

• June 8, 2022

  Prestigious $3.8M NIH grant awarded to biomolecular engineering professor to develop an RSV vaccine

  Associate Professor of Biomolecular Engineering Rebecca DuBois will use the five-year grant to develop a vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus, a common and potentially dangerous virus.

• June 8, 2022

  Social Sciences Division recognizes students at annual awards event

  The annual Student Awards Luncheon honors undergraduates and graduate students across the Social Sciences Division for excellence in scholarship and creativity.

• June 6, 2022

  Associate Professor Nick Mitchell receives 2021-22 Distinguished Teaching Award

  Nick Mitchell was honored for his positive impact on students and the leading role he has played in creating new programs that foster the intellectual development of students and UC Santa Cruz

• June 3, 2022

  ‘Crossing Latinidades’ program selects UC Santa Cruz faculty and graduate students for national research and mentoring collaboration

  Two UC Santa Cruz faculty were awarded $310,000 grants to lead national research working groups, and two doctoral students have been selected for one-year research fellowships and a summer institute focused on interdisciplinary research methods.

• May 26, 2022

  Biologist Bruce Lyon honored by American Ornithological Society

  Bruce Lyon, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, has been chosen to receive the 2022 Elliott Coues Award from the American Ornithological Society.

• May 25, 2022

  Sociology doctoral candidate wins national fellowship for research on travel programs that teach youth about the African diaspora

  Theresa Hice-Fromille was one of five top scholars selected nationwide for the American Sociological Association’s 2022-2023 Minority Fellowship program. Funding from this and other recent awards will support her dissertation research on travel abroad programs led by Black women that teach youth about the African diaspora.

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