Colleen Murphy, a graduate student in Earth and Planetary Sciences, won the grand prize of $1000 for her video, “Sluggish Slides: Why Some Landslides Never Pick Up the Pace.” Another Science Division student, Lourdes “Lulu” Martinez Estevez, won “Best of the PBSci Division” for her presentation, “Spatial ecology of hawksbill sea turtles in the Gulf of California.”
Monthly research award report for faculty and researchers at the UC Santa Cruz Division of Physical & Biological Sciences receiving over $150,000 in research funding
As part of this month’s all-virtual Alumni Week celebrations, the five recipients of this year’s Distinguished Graduate Student Alumni Award will be honored for their achievements during a Zoom-based webinar award ceremony on Saturday, April 24.
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Monthly research award report for faculty and researchers at the UC Santa Cruz Division of Physical & Biological Sciences receiving over $150,000 in research funding
Monthly research award report for faculty and researchers at the UC Santa Cruz Division of Physical & Biological Sciences receiving over $150,000 in research funding
Monthly research award report for faculty and researchers at the UC Santa Cruz Division of Physical & Biological Sciences receiving over $150,000 in research funding
Monthly research award report for faculty and researchers at the UC Santa Cruz Division of Physical & Biological Sciences receiving over $150,000 in research funding
Monthly research award report for faculty and researchers at the UC Santa Cruz Division of Physical & Biological Sciences receiving over $150,000 in research funding
Monthly research award report for faculty and researchers at the UC Santa Cruz Division of Physical & Biological Sciences receiving over $150,000 in research funding
Monthly research award report for faculty and researchers at the UC Santa Cruz Division of Physical & Biological Sciences receiving over $150,000 in research funding
Monthly research award report for faculty and researchers at the UC Santa Cruz Division of Physical & Biological Sciences receiving over $150,000 in research funding
Monthly research award report for faculty and researchers at the UC Santa Cruz Division of Physical & Biological Sciences receiving over $150,000 in research funding
Diana Powell, an astrophysics graduate student at UC Santa Cruz, was among 132 outstanding scholars awarded fellowships in the 2020 Ford Foundation Fellowship Programs administered by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
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After 21 years as director of the Seymour Marine Discovery Center, Julie Barrett Heffington has announced her retirement, beginning July 1.
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Monthly research award report for faculty and researchers at the UC Santa Cruz Division of Physical & Biological Sciences receiving over $150,000 in research funding
I wanted to take a moment to offer my personal congratulations on being selected as award recipients this academic year. I wish you all the best in your future endeavors.
Funding will support Lindsay’s research on how milk supply is generated during pregnancy and why some women experience lactation insufficiency.
Monthly research award report for faculty and researchers at the UC Santa Cruz Division of Physical & Biological Sciences.
Francis Nimmo, professor of Earth and planetary sciences at UC Santa Cruz, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of his distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
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The Searle Scholars Program has awarded a $300,000 research grant to Upasna Sharma, assistant professor of molecular, cell, and developmental biology at UC Santa Cruz.
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Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies.
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Monthly research award report for faculty and researchers at the UC Santa Cruz Division of Physical & Biological Sciences.
Myriam Telus, assistant professor of Earth and planetary sciences at UC Santa Cruz, has received funding from NASA through the Planetary Science Early Career Award program to support her research in cosmochemistry, the chemical analysis of extraterrestrial materials.
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Martin Weissman, professor of mathematics at UC Santa Cruz, has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2020.
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Elizabeth Yunerman, a junior studying physics and astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz, has been named a 2020 Goldwater Scholar by the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation.
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Monthly research award report for faculty and researchers at the UC Santa Cruz Division of Physical & Biological Sciences.
$45,000 prize will support Cronin’s efforts to to reduce the mortality of manta rays and devil rays incidentally caught during tuna fishing.
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The American Astronomical Society (AAS), the major organization of professional astronomers in North America, has established a new accolade, Fellow of the AAS, to honor members for extraordinary achievement and service.
Monthly research award report for faculty and researchers at the UC Santa Cruz Division of Physical & Biological Sciences.
François Monard, assistant professor of mathematics, has received a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support his work on theoretical and applied aspects of integral geometry.
Monthly research award report for faculty and researchers at the UC Santa Cruz Division of Physical & Biological Sciences.
New funding for the Doris Duke Conservation Scholars Program at UC Santa Cruz builds on the program’s successes in training the next generation of diverse conservation leaders.
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The Royal Astronomical Society has awarded its Gold Medal in Astronomy to Sandra Faber, professor emerita of astronomy and astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz.
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Jordan Ward, assistant professor of molecular, cell, and developmental biology, has received a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support his work with undergraduate researchers to investigate the biology of spermatogenesis, the process by which stem cells in the germ line differentiate to become sperm.
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Doug Kellogg, professor of molecular, cell, and developmental biology at UC Santa Cruz, has received the 2018–19 Outstanding Faculty Award from the Division of Physical and Biological Sciences.
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Andrew Fisher, professor of Earth and planetary sciences at UC Santa Cruz, has been named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
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Prestigious $1.5 million grant will fund Sharma’s research on how environmental effects can be passed down from parents to their offspring.
Prestigious $1.5 million grant will fund Sharma’s research on how environmental effects can be passed down from parents to their offspring.
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UCSC Newscenter — Fourteen UC Santa Cruz graduate students have received scholarships worth a total of $158,000 from the Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Foundation for the 2019-20 academic year. Since 1976, the ARCS Foundation’s Northern California Chapter has given more than $2 million in scholarships to UC Santa Cruz students.
UCSC Newscenter — The APS citation for Williams recognizes him “for contributions to the study of gamma rays from extragalactic sources such as gamma-ray bursts and blazars, for using gamma-ray data to test cosmological models of the extragalactic background light, and for leadership in the development of past, present, and future ground-based gamma-ray telescopes.”
UCSC Newscenter — Melissa Cronin, a Ph.D. candidate in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at UC Santa Cruz, has been awarded a Switzer Environmental Fellowship from the Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation. The prestigious fellowship recognizes promising environmental leaders and provides $15,000 to support their research.
Cronin’s research focuses on threatened manta ray and devil ray populations, which are often caught as bycatch in industrial fishing operations.
UCSC Newscenter — The grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases will support Lam’s ongoing research to develop novel therapeutics to combat infections caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a bacterial pathogen that is often resistant to commonly used antibiotics. Lam’s work in the lab of METX Professor Victoria Auerbuch Stone uses a combination of experimental and bioinformatic approaches to target this top priority pathogen.
UCSC Newscenter — The 2019 A.G. Huntsman Medal will be awarded to Paytan “in recognition of her discoveries in the paleoceanographic history of important elements used to recreate the geochemical history of the planet, and of outstanding contributions to understanding the biogeochemical links between global earth-ocean-atmosphere nutrient controls on carbon productivity and paleoclimate.”
UCSC Newscenter — The 2020 Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize recognizes Primack for his outstanding contributions to physics and cosmology.
