Awards & Honors
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Three UCSC professors elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Three UCSC faculty are among 212 leaders in the sciences, arts, humanities, business, public affairs, and nonprofit sector, who have been elected this year as fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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UCSC Literature professor Karen Tei Yamashita wins California Book Award
Karen Tei Yamashita–professor of literature and co-director of the Creative Writing Program at UC Santa Cruz–has been honored with a 2011 California Book Award.
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Bioinformatics expert Ed Green awarded Searle Scholars grant
The Searle Scholars Program has awarded a $300,000 research grant to Richard E. (Ed) Green, assistant professor of biomolecular engineering.
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Bettina Aptheker delivers 17th Annual Du Bois Lecture
Professor of feminist studies and history Bettina Aptheker delivered the 17th annual Du Bois Lecture on February 28, at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
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Electrical engineer Claire Gu named Optical Society Fellow
Electrical engineer Claire Gu has been elected a Fellow of the Optical Society (OSA).
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Bioinformatics expert Richard Green wins Sloan Research Fellowship
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship to Richard E. (Ed) Green, assistant professor of biomolecular engineering.
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Computer engineering professor wins Technical Achievement Award
The IEEE Computer Society has awarded a 2011 Technical Achievement Award to computer engineer J. J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves.
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Anthropology graduate student wins prestigious Paper Prize
Sarah Bakker, a graduate student in anthropology, is the first UC Santa Cruz student to win the prestigious Paper Prize from the Society for the Anthropology of Europe.
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UCSC’s Richard Green honored for top research paper in Science
Bioinformatics expert Richard Green has won the Newcomb Cleveland Prize for his paper on the Neanderthal genome.
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Physicist Bill Atwood shares Rossi Prize for work on gamma-ray telescope
The 2011 Bruno Rossi Prize has been awarded to UCSC physicist Bill Atwood, Stanford physicist Peter Michelson, and the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope’s Large Area Telescope (LAT) team.
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Sandra Faber honored by American Astronomical Society
The American Astronomical Society has awarded the 2011 Henry Norris Russell Lectureship to astronomer Sandra Faber.
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Three students awarded Gilman Scholarships
Three UCSC undergraduate students who are studying abroad during spring 2011 received Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarships.