Recent awards and honors

• February 9, 2021

  Astronomer J. Xavier Prochaska honored for top research paper in Science

  J. Xavier Prochaska, distinguished professor of astronomy and astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz, and his coauthors of a landmark paper describing a fast radio burst from a massive galaxy have been chosen to receive the prestigious AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize.

• February 4, 2021

  Three UCSC film alumni recognized by International Documentary Association

  Three alumni from UCSC’s Film and Digital Media Department received nominations for this year's prestigious International Documentary Association Awards (IDA).

• February 2, 2021

  Seawater intake replacement, bike path improvement projects win public works awards

  A $1.1 million project to replace the seawater intake structure at the UC Santa Cruz Long Marine Lab was selected as environmental project of the year by the Monterey Bay chapter of the American Public Works Association.

• February 2, 2021

  Two UCSC astronomers elected Fellows of the American Astronomical Society

  Astronomers Raja GuhaThakurta and Garth Illingworth were honored as 2021 AAS Fellows for their extraordinary achievement and service.

• February 1, 2021

  Anthropologist Savannah Shange wins book award for insights on race and education

  Anthropology faculty member Savannah Shange received one of the most prestigious honors in the field when she was awarded the 2020 Gregory Bateson Book Prize from the Society for Cultural Anthropology.

• January 27, 2021

  Fellowship program gives UCSC grad policy experience in Sacramento

  After earning his Ph.D. in 2020, Jason John will work at the California Natural Resources Agency as a CCST Science Fellow.

• January 20, 2021

  Italian newspaper ranks sociology professor among top women of the year

  Camilla Hawthorne is being recognized for shedding light on emergent Afro-Italian identities and activism during a time of racial reckoning in Italy and beyond.

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