Awards & Honors
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Physicist Bill Atwood awarded Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics
The American Physical Society has awarded the 2012 Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics to physicist William Atwood.
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Educational Partnership Center receives $14 million in federal outreach grants
UC Santa Cruz’s Educational Partnership Center has been awarded two GEAR UP federal grants to serve students in Pajaro Valley and South Monterey County.
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Geologist Casey Moore honored by Geological Society of Japan
The Geological Society of Japan has awarded its International Prize to UCSC geologist Casey Moore.
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UARC scientists win best paper award
UARC scientists Matthew Daigle and Sriram Narasimhan won the Best Theoretical Paper award at the 2011 conference of the Prognostics and Health Management Society.
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Health Center project honored by Business Journal
UC Santa Cruz received a top prize at the Silcon Valley/San Jose Business Journal’s annual Structures Awards ceremony, held last week at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose. The campus finished first in the category of “Green Project — Public” for its sustainable design and construction efforts on the Cowell Student Health Center project.
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UCSC film lecturer Leo Chiang up for Emmy Award in Sept.
Leo Chiang–a lecturer in the Social Documentation M.F.A. Program at UC Santa Cruz—has been nominated for an Emmy Award for his documentary film, “A Village Called Versailles.”
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Andrew Szasz wins highest honor in American environmental sociology
UC Santa Cruz sociology professor Andrew Szasz is the 2011 recipient of the Frederick Buttel Distinguished Contribution Award of the Environment, Technology, and Society section of the American Sociological Association, the highest honor bestowed in American environmental sociology.
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Biologist John Pearse awarded California Academy of Sciences Fellows’ Medal
The California Academy of Sciences has awarded its highest honor, the Fellows’ Medal, to UCSC biologist John Pearse.
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Science Communication lecturer earns Emmy nomination
Ken McLaughlin, a lecturer in news reporting for UCSC’s Science Communication Program, has been nominated for an Emmy Award for his reporting on “Torn Apart,” a multimedia project on immigration published in the Mercury News.
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Tim Galarneau receives 2011 UC Sustainability Champion Award
Tim Galarneau – described in a 2009 Mother Jones magazine profile as “the Alice Waters of a burgeoning movement of campus foodies”, is getting systemwide recognition.
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Jin Zhang named Fellow of American Chemical Society
The American Chemical Society (ACS) has named Jin Zhang, professor of chemistry and biochemistry at UC Santa Cruz, to the 2011 class of ACS Fellows.
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Campus IT leader wins service award
Mary Doyle, vice chancellor for information technology, has been named the Society for College and University Planning (SCUP) 2011 Distinguished Service Award Recipient.