Awards & Honors
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Research on optical data transmission earns best paper award
A research project that grew out of an international exchange program at UCSC’s Baskin School of Engineering won the Best Paper Award at a recent conference.
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David Haussler honored by International Society for Computational Biology
The International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) has awarded its Senior Scientist Accomplishment Award to David Haussler, professor of biomolecular engineering in the Baskin School of Engineering at UCSC.
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IMS researcher Adina Paytan appointed Ocean Leadership Distinguished Lecturer
Adina Paytan, an associate research professor in UCSC’s Institute of Marine Sciences, has been appointed as a 2008-09 Ocean Leadership Distinguished Lecturer.
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Social psychologist Thomas Pettigrew receives faculty award from Division of Social Sciences
Social psychologist Thomas Pettigrew’s pathbreaking research on racism has earned him international honors as well as the admiration of his peers at UC Santa Cruz, who have named him the recipient of the 2008 Distinguished Social Sciences Emeriti Faculty
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UCSC computer scientist Phokion Kolaitis earns ‘Test-of-Time’ award
Phokion Kolaitis, professor of computer science at UCSC, published a paper in 1998 that has now been recognized as a major influence in the field of database systems.
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Felicia Rice honored with Rydell Visual Arts Fellowship
UCSC alumna Felicia Rice (Cowell ’78)–manager for the Digital Arts and New Media M.F.A. program-has been awarded a $20,000 Rydell Visual Arts Fellowship. Rice is one of four Santa Cruz County artists selected from a pool of 46 visual artists that will receive the grants to pursue their work. The Rydell fellowships were established by…
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Professor honored by Society for American Music
Professor of music Leta Miller has received the Lowens Award from The Society for American Music for the best article published on American music in 2006. Miller was honored for her article “Henry Cowell and John Cage: Intersections and Influences, 1933-1941,” published in the Journal of the American Musicological Society. The award was announced last…
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Alumna Dana Priest wins major journalism award for Walter Reed exposé
Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter Dana Priest (B.A. politics, 1981) and her colleague Anne Hull have won the prestigious 2008 Selden Ring award for their exposé of deplorable conditions at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
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Earth scientist James Zachos elected fellow of the American Geophysical Union
James Zachos, professor of Earth and planetary sciences at UCSC, has been elected a fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU).
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Ocean scientist Mary Silver to give Rachel Louise Carson Lecture at AGU meeting
Mary Silver, professor of ocean sciences at UCSC, has been chosen to give the Rachel Louise Carson Lecture at the Spring American Geophysical Union Joint Assembly in May.
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John Mock receives grant to document traditions in Afghanistan
John Mock, lecturer in Hindi and Urdu, has received a $32,000 grant from the Palo Alto-based Christensen Fund to support a folklorist who will help document the traditions of the people of Wakhan in Afghanistan. The folklorist will collaborate with Wakhi ethnographers to support local pride and enrich potential conservation and ecotourism activities. Mock’s two-year…