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Celebrating honors for faculty, researchers and others

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UCSB Library Award for Undergraduate Research winners (left to right): April Luce (physics), Sanjana Sujeet (environmental studies), Hanna Kawamoto (history), April Zhang (environmental studies) and Shadoe Dewitt (psychological and brain sciences). Not pictured: Audrey Gaceta (psychological and brain sciences).

Undergraduates win cash prizes for UCSB Library’s annual research award

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National Academy of Inventors recognizes Professor Thuc-Quyen Nguyen
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John Bowers to receive the 2024 Jun-ichi Nishizawa Prize for his contributions to optics and photonics
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Elena Zhukova

Making the world healthier, more sustainable and more secure through research
Portrait of professor Isabel Bayrakdarian at an awards ceremony
Professor and opera singer Isabel Bayrakdarian, November 2023

Operatic soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian: a lifetime of achievement
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Ellie Leonardsmith

Global studies scholar-activist Charmaine Chua receives Harold J. Plous Memorial Award
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Charmaine Chua is a 2023 Freedom Scholar

Charmaine Chua is named a 2023 Freedom Scholar
Promise Fellowship awardees (from left) Lesley Figueroa, Anthony A. Botros, Erik Magaña and Rosemary Juarez
2023-24 Promise Fellowship awardees (from left) Lesley Figueroa, Anthony A. Botros, Erik Magaña and Rosemary Juarez

First-generation college students awarded Promise Fellowships to ease financial stress as they pursue advanced degrees
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An all-time, top Peace Corps volunteer-producing university
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Debra Herrick
"It is definitely a very special highlight in my composition career," said João Pedro Oliveira on receiving an award from the Guggenheim Foundation.

Composer João Pedro Oliveira is awarded a Guggenheim
Gary Horowitz wears glasses and a blue shirt in a dark room
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Matt Perko
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Physicist Gary Horowitz receives 2023 Einstein Prize from the American Physical Society
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