Recent awards and honors

• July 16, 2021

  History professor wins prize for article on post-Civil War incarceration of African American children

  Associate professor of history Catherine Jones has been honored with the 2021 Richards Prize for the best article published in The Journal of the Civil War Era in 2020. The journal explores how knowledge of the Civil War era informs our understanding of 21st-century politics and society.

• July 14, 2021

  Physics PhD student receives Graduate Instrumentation Research Award

  Funding from the American Physical Society program supports graduate student Yuzhan Zao’s research on silicon detectors for particle physics experiments.

• July 2, 2021

  New research on aquaculture feed will test alternative ingredients to help minimize water pollution

  A new grant will support UC Santa Cruz’s ecological aquaculture lab in their efforts to increase the variety and quality of low-polluting aquaculture feed options available to fish farmers.

• July 2, 2021

  Quantitative ecologist Kai Zhu wins NSF funding for climate change research and education

  Associate Professor of Environmental Studies Kai Zhu won an NSF CAREER award to support research and education focused on the interconnections between climate change and plant phenology.

• June 16, 2021

  Hydrologist Margaret Zimmer wins NSF CAREER Award

  Margaret Zimmer, assistant professor of Earth and planetary sciences, has received an award from the National Science Foundation to support her research on the role of Earth’s subsurface in regulating the water cycle.

• June 9, 2021

  Doctoral student wins Ford Foundation fellowship for work on gender, race, and policing

  Uriel Serrano recently won a Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship to support his research on how gender ideologies are formed in relation to carceral violence.

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