Recent awards and honors

• August 13, 2019

  Two UCSC graduate students win HHMI Gilliam Fellowships for Advanced Study

  The Howard Hughes Medical Institute has awarded Gilliam Fellowships for Advanced Study to two UC Santa Cruz graduate students, Apple Cortez Vollmers and Donna Poscablo.

• July 23, 2019

  Donna Haraway elected to Fellowship of the British Academy

  Donna Haraway, distinguished professor emerita in the History of Consciousness Department at UC Santa Cruz, is joining a community of more than 1,400 scholars who currently make up the UK’s national academy for the humanities and social sciences.

• July 3, 2019

  Holger Schmidt receives IEEE Photonics Society Engineering Achievement Award

  Schmidt is a professor of electrical and computer engineering and holds the Narinder Kapany chair in Optoelectronics in the Baskin School of Engineering.

• July 1, 2019

  Alumna’s film about Syrian refugees wins Audience Award for Best Feature at SF DocFest

  We Are Not Princesses, the first feature film by UC Santa Cruz alumna Bridgette Auger (SocDoc ’11), was honored with the Audience Award for Best Feature at the 2019 San Francisco Documentary Film Festival.

• June 25, 2019

  Three UC Santa Cruz faculty honored with Dickson Emeriti Professorships

  Leta Miller, professor emeritus of music, Linda Burman-Hall, research professor in cultural musicology and Diane Gifford-Gonzalez, distinguished research professor of anthropology, were each awarded Edward A. Dickson Emeriti Professorships in recognition of their outstanding achievements in scholarship and teaching.

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