Awards & Honors
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Three UC Santa Cruz Ph.D. candidates awarded AAUW fellowships
Three UC Santa Cruz Ph.D. candidates have been awarded 2016-2017 fellowships from the American Association of University Women (AAUW).
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Seven alumni invited to join Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Seven UC Santa Cruz alumni are among the 683 artists and executives who have been invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences this year.
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Chemist Phil Crews earns mentorship award for work with undergrad researchers
A $20,000 grant from the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation supports undergraduate research in chemistry.
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Catherine Jones wins 2016 Abbott Prize for best book on the history of children
Associate professor of history Catherine Jones has been honored with the Grace Abbott Book Prize for the best book published in 2015 on the history of children and youth.
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Seismologist Susan Schwartz elected fellow of the American Geophysical Union
Schwartz was honored by the AGU for exceptional contributions to the Earth sciences.
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Geophysicist Robert Coe honored by American Geophysical Union
The AGU has awarded the John Adam Fleming Medal to Robert Coe, professor emeritus of Earth and planetary sciences.
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Hydrogeologist Andrew Fisher honored by Geological Society of America
Fisher’s Recharge Initiative aims to replenish California’s depleted groundwater supplies.
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Patricia Zavella wins anthropology association gender equity award
Patricia Zavella, UC Santa Cruz professor of Latin American and Latino studies, has been named winner of the 2016 American Anthropological Association’s Committee on Gender Equity in Anthropology Award.
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Graduate research on toxic metals earns international award
Environmental toxicologist Kingsley Odigie received the Kharaka Award from the International Association of Geochemistry.
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Ecologist Kristy Kroeker named Faculty Climate Action Champion for 2016-17
Kroeker will address how environmental changes in the ocean could affect human health.
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Derek Conrad Murray appointed to Art Journal editorial board
UC Santa Cruz associate professor Derek Conrad Murray, an interdisciplinary theorist in the History of Art and Visual Culture Department, has been appointed to the Editorial Board of Art Journal.