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Celebrating honors for faculty, researchers and others

Joao Oliveira
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Debra Herrick

João Pedro Oliveira named 2025 Fromm Music Foundation composer

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Sara Poot Herrera a woman smiling
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Jeff Liang
UCSB Distinguished Professor Sara Poot Herrera

How to build global community through Mexican literature
Headshot of Andrew Plantinga on a background of conifer trees.
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Andrew Plantinga

Andrew Plantinga recognized for shaping environmental policy through economic insight
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Graduate Division announces winners of annual mentoring awards
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Postdocs awarded inaugural Graduate Division prize in excellence
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Candice Lyons
Solaire Denaud, 2025 Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellow

PhD candidate Solaire Denaud receives prestigious humanities and social science fellowship
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New NIH grant supports UCSB taste and hydration research
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Jeff Liang
Winner of the Humanities & Fine Arts category Cece Chao, a senior majoring in history

Library’s annual research award honors undergraduate projects in sciences, humanities and arts
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Professors Somayeh Dodge and Alan Murray receive UCGIS awards
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Andrea S. Carlini recognized for her work on bio-compatible soft materials
Irene Beyerlein in front of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences seal
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Irene Beyerlein

Professor Irene Beyerlein elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Joan Dudney with hiking gear in the mountains.
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Joan Dudney studies the impacts of global change on forests to develop science-based management strategies.

Ecologist Joan Dudney studies forest change in a warming world
people in India working on top of large bags of waste
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Dana Kornberg
Workers in India's waste economy

Race and caste capitalism: Who gets access to status and wealth?
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