Awards & Honors
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UC Santa Cruz student games win awards at IndieCade
Two games developed by UC Santa Cruz students won awards at the 2016 IndieCade International Festival of Independent Games.
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Theater Arts professor Ted Warburton wins national dance award
Edward (Ted) Warburton, professor of dance and associate dean of the arts at UC Santa Cruz, is the recipient of the National Dance Education Organization’s 2016 Outstanding Dance Researcher Award.
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Astronomer Ryan Foley wins prestigious Packard Fellowship
Foley is the 12th UCSC faculty member, and fifth UCSC astronomer, to receive a Packard Fellowship.
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Astrophysicist Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz honored by American Physical Society
Ramirez-Ruiz, professor and chair of astronomy and astrophysics, will receive the 2017 Edward A. Bouchet Award.
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Physicist Howard Haber wins Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Physics
Haber, a distinguished professor of physics at UCSC, was honored by the American Physical Society.
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Patricia Zavella wins anthropology association distinguished career award
Patricia Zavella, UC Santa Cruz professor of Latin American and Latino studies, has been named winner of the 2016 Distinguished Career Award from the Association of Latina and Latino Anthropologists, a section of the American Anthropological Association.
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Astronomer Garth Illingworth to receive Astronomical Society’s Berkeley Prize
Illingworth will receive the 2016 Lancelot M. Berkeley – New York Community Trust Prize for Meritorious Work in Astronomy.
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UC Santa Cruz ranks among top 30 U.S. public universities
The campus also is one of the top 100 national universities, according to the annual rankings by U.S. News and World Report
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UC Santa Cruz highlighted in Green College Honor Roll
UC Santa Cruz scored 99 points—the most possible—in a listing meant to provide a comprehensive measure of a school’s performance as an environmentally aware and prepared institution.
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Craig Reinarman given ‘career of excellence’ award in sociology
Craig Reinarman, UC Santa Cruz research professor emeritus of sociology and legal studies, was honored for a career of excellence at the annual convention of the American Sociological Association last week in Seattle.
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Professor’s book wins National Women’s Studies Association book award
A book by Sylvanna M. Falcón, associate professor of Latin American and Latino studies at UC Santa Cruz, has been named winner of the 2016 Gloria E. Anzaldúa book prize given by the National Women’s Studies Association.
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Film professor Shelley Stamp wins 2015 book award from Theatre Library Association
UC Santa Cruz film and digital media professor Shelley Stamp has been honored with a 2015 Book Award from The Theatre Library Association. The awards are given annually for the best English language works of scholarship on theatre, film, and broadcasting.