Awards & Honors
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Chemistry Professor Anthony Fink wins Outstanding Faculty Award
UCSC’s Division of Physical and Biological Sciences has awarded its highest honor, the Outstanding Faculty Award, to Anthony Fink, professor of chemistry and biochemistry.
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UCSC astronomer Sandra Faber and chemist Jin Zhang elected 2007 AAAS Fellows
Two UCSC scientists–Sandra Faber, University Professor and chair of astronomy and astrophysics, and Jin Zhang, professor of chemistry and biochemistry–have been honored as 2007 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
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Lincoln Taiz named Fellow of the American Society of Plant Biologists
Lincoln Taiz, professor emeritus of molecular, cell, and developmental biology, has been named a Fellow of the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB).
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UCSC senior named women’s rugby All-American
UCSC senior Amara Reddick has been named a Women’s Collegiate All-American for the 2006-07 academic year by USA Rugby.
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UCSC alumna receives award from Academy of American Poets
The Academy of American Poets has honored UCSC alumna Brenda Shaughnessy with the 2007 James Laughlin Award, which gives $5,000 for the most outstanding second book by an American poet published in the previous year. Shaughnessy, who earned a B.A. in literature/creative writing from UCSC in 1991, received the award for her collection Human Dark…
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Kamieniecki receives book award for Corporate America and Environmental Policy
Sheldon Kamieniecki, dean of the Division of Social Sciences at UC Santa Cruz, has received the 2007 Lynton Keith Caldwell Award for his book Corporate America and Environmental Policy: How Often Does Business Get Its Way?
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OPERS staff member Kevin Givens honored for contributions to sport
Kevin (“Skippy”) Givens, OPERS intramural and sports club director, recently received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Freestyle Frisbee Players Association.
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UCSC librarian recognized by Special Libraries Association
Wei Wei, a librarian at the UCSC Science & Engineering Library, has been honored as a 2007 Fellow of the Special Libraries Association (SLA) for service to the profession. The SLA is a nonprofit global organization for innovative information professionals and their strategic partners. SLA serves more than 11,000 members in 75 countries in the…
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UC Santa Cruz biologist Hinrich Boeger named Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences
The Pew Charitable Trusts has named Hinrich Boeger, assistant professor of molecular, cell, and developmental biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, a Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences.
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UCSC graduate awarded $10,000 for best American thesis on modern India
UC Santa Cruz graduate Gillian Goslinga has been honored with the 2006 Sardar Patel Award for “the best dissertation submitted at any American university on the subject of modern India.” The award of $10,000 is administered each year by the UCLA Center for India and South Asia. Eligible dissertations must be completed at an American…
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Friends of UCSC Library contest winners honored
Winners of the Friends of the UCSC Library’s 41st annual Book Collection Essay Contest for UCSC students were recently recognized at an awards ceremony held at McHenry Library. Students were asked to imagine a collection of books that they would like to own concerning their favorite subject. They were then instructed to write an essay…
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Francis Nimmo awarded Urey Prize in Planetary Science
The Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society has awarded the 2007 Harold C. Urey Prize in Planetary Science to Francis Nimmo, associate professor of Earth and planetary sciences.