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  • Denice D. Denton to be invested as UCSC’s ninth chancellor on Friday, November 4

    Denice D. Denton will be invested as the ninth chancellor of the University of California, Santa Cruz, in an afternoon ceremony on Friday, November 4. Presided over by University of California President Robert C. Dynes, the public event will begin at 1:30 p.m. in the Recital Hall at UCSC’s Music Center. Brief ceremony will follow…

  • ARCS Foundation scholarships support nine outstanding graduate students at UCSC

    Nine UC Santa Cruz graduate students have received scholarships worth a total of $100,000 from the Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Foundation for the 2005-06 academic year. The Northern California chapter of the ARCS Foundation is the most generous provider of annual private awards to the UCSC campus and has provided more than $1…

  • Three UCSC professors and two graduate students honored for teaching

    SANTA CRUZ, CA–Three professors and two graduate students at the University of California, Santa Cruz, were honored for their teaching today (Thursday, September 29). The Division of Social Sciences presented the division’s Distinguished Teaching Award, known as the “Golden Apple Award,” during the dean’s annual fall convocation. The awards recognize outstanding undergraduate teaching in the…

  • Faye Crosby receives top honor in social psychology, becoming third UCSC professor to win prestigious Kurt Lewin Award

    SANTA CRUZ, CA–Faye J. Crosby, professor of psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and an expert on affirmative action, has received the Kurt Lewin Award, one of the most prestigious honors in social psychology. Crosby received the award from the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI), also known as Division…

  • UCSC New Teacher Center director receives national education award

    Ellen Moir, executive director of the New Teacher Center at the University of California, Santa Cruz, received the 2005 Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education today (Tuesday, September 27) for her pioneering work in new teacher professional development. Also receiving the McGraw Prize this year were Barbara Taylor Bowman, cofounder of the Erikson Institute,…

  • UCSC Professor David Haussler to receive Carnegie Mellon’s Dickson Prize

    Carnegie Mellon University will award its prestigious Dickson Prize in Science to David Haussler, a leader in the field of bioinformatics and professor of biomolecular engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Haussler will receive an award of $50,000 and will deliver a public lecture as part of the prize ceremony to be held…

  • Economics Department at UC Santa Cruz ranked ninth in world in international finance

    The Economics Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, was ranked ninth in the world in the field of international finance in a survey of more than 300 public and private research universities. The ranking is based on the research productivity of faculty as measured by scholarly publications in 63 academic journals from 1993…

  • UC Santa Cruz will get training grants from California stem cell institute

    The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) last week announced its first grant awards, including a $1.2 million training grant to the University of California, Santa Cruz, to establish a new training program in the systems biology of stem cells. The UCSC program will be part of a larger CIRM Training Program in Stem Cell…

  • UCSC Professor Emeritus William Friedland honored for lifetime achievement

    William Friedland, whose research revealed the “cozy” relationship between UC’s agricultural researchers and the state’s powerful farming interests, is being honored for his contributions during the Rural Sociological Society’s annual meeting August 8-12 in Tampa, Florida. “For me, the university has been a remarkable place–that’s the only way to describe it,” said Friedland, a professor…

  • UC Santa Cruz biologist receives Fulbright Scholar award

    Ingrid Parker, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to teach and do research at the University of Panama during the 2005-06 academic year. The grant will support Parker’s work on a project titled “Applied plant ecology in Panama: Building intellectual…

  • UCSC engineering dean Steve Kang wins 2005 Van Valkenburg Award

    Steve Kang, dean of the Baskin School of Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has been awarded the 2005 Mac Van Valkenburg Award from the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Circuits and Systems Society (CAS). The Van Valkenburg Award is the CAS society’s highest honor and is given to a person…

  • STEPS Institute at UC Santa Cruz awards student fellowships and grants

    Five graduate students at the University of California, Santa Cruz, were selected last month to receive fellowships from the STEPS Institute for Innovation in Environmental Research at UC Santa Cruz. Three students received $20,000 fellowships for interdisciplinary environmental research, and two students received $9,000 fellowships for biodiversity conservation research. In addition to the graduate fellowships…

Last modified: Mar 18, 2025