Recent awards and honors

• September 20, 2018

  Planetary scientist Francis Nimmo awarded 2018 Farinella Prize

  Francis Nimmo, professor of Earth and planetary sciences, was awarded the 2018 Paolo Farinella Prize at the European Planetary Science Congress in Berlin.

• September 13, 2018

  Emeritus UCSC philosophy professor honored at Oxford University as All Souls College’s first African Prize scholar

  In 1959, UC Santa Cruz emeritus professor of philosophy William Abraham won a Prize Fellowship at Oxford University’s All Souls College, an award recognized by many as the ultimate post graduate achievement at the renowned institution. In doing so, the Ghanaian academic became the first African to receive this honor, and in fact remains the only African Prize Fellow to date.

• August 27, 2018

  Film professor Jennifer Taylor wins grant from the SFFILM 2018 Documentary Film Fund

  UC Santa Cruz associate professor of film and digital media Jennifer Maytorena Taylor has received a grant from the SFFILM Documentary Film Fund to support her latest project, "The Gut."

• August 9, 2018

  UC Santa Cruz awarded two NEH grants for Humanities projects

  UC Santa Cruz has received two grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to support humanities projects in the Literature Department.

• August 9, 2018

  Three UCSC scientists elected fellows of the American Geophysical Union

  Andrew Fisher, Adina Paytan, and Eli Silver are among the 62 eminent scientists honored by the American Geophysical Union (AGU) as members of the 2018 class of AGU Fellows.

• August 3, 2018

  Harry Noller to receive Biophysical Society's 2019 Ignacio Tinoco Award

  Molecular biologist Harry Noller has been chosen by the Biophysical Society (BPS) to receive its 2019 Ignacio Tinoco Award.

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