Recent awards and honors

• September 13, 2021

  Karen Tei Yamashita to receive 2021 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters

  UC Santa Cruz emerita professor of literature Karen Tei Yamashita will be awarded the 2021 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from The National Book Foundation, presenter of the National Book Awards.

• September 9, 2021

  Researcher honored for work in UCSC-NOAA Fisheries Collaborative Program

  James Gilbert, an associate project scientist in the Institute of Marine Sciences, was recognized by the NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center with its Staff of the Quarter award.

• September 9, 2021

  Engineer Leila Parsa honored by Japan’s Nagamori Foundation

  Leila Parsa, professor of electrical and computer engineering, received the Nagamori Award given by Japan’s Nagamori Foundation to commend those who have made innovative technological developments.

• September 3, 2021

  Long Marine Lab seawater intake repair wins environmental engineering award

  The seawater intake repair project at the UC Santa Cruz Long Marine Lab was named the 2021 Environmental Engineering Project of the Year for the American Society of Civil Engineers, San Francisco Section.

• August 16, 2021

  Alumnus Nicholas St. Fleur wins top award for young science journalists

  Nicholas St. Fleur, a 2014 graduate of UCSC's Science Communication Program, has received the 2021 Evert Clark/Seth Payne Award from the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing, the top annual prize in the U.S. for science journalists age 30 or younger.

• August 9, 2021

  Doctoral candidate’s award-winning research documents experiences of Latina girls growing up in rural California

  UC Santa Cruz graduate student Roxanna Villalobos recently won a national dissertation scholarship award from Sociologists for Women in Society that will support her research with Latina girls in rural California.

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