Category: Awards & Honors
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Earl Almazan Receives Graduate Instrumentation Research Award
SCIPP graduate student researcher Earl Almazan has been selected to receive a Graduate Instrumentation Research Award (GIRA) from the Coordinating Panel for Advanced Detectors (CPAD), part of the American Physical Society’s Division of Particles and Fields (DPF). The national award recognizes Almazan’s innovative work developing thin-film sensors for charged particle tracking—technology that could significantly enhance…
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Stefania Gori Awarded 2025 APS Fellow
Stefania Gori, a professor of physics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has been named the 2025 recipient of the Division of Particles and Fields (DPF) Fellowship from the American Physical Society (APS). The fellowship honors Gori for her seminal contributions to particle physics phenomenology beyond the Standard Model, particularly in advancing the understanding…
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SCIPP physicists among winners of prestigious 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
Scientists from the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics at UC Santa Cruz are among the thousands of researchers honored with the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, awarded to the ATLAS Collaboration at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) alongside its sister experiments ALICE, CMS and LHCb. This is one of the major awards sponsored…
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SCIPP Scientist Simone Mazza Honored with International Physics Award
Simone Mazza, an assistant research scientist at the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics (SCIPP), has won an international award that recognizes contributions in the fields of fundamental interactions of matter. Mazza received the 2024 INFN Bruno Toushek Award from the Italian Scientists and Scholars of North America Foundation. Read the entire article here.
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Michael Riordan Awarded 2025 Abraham Pais Prize
SCIPP member Michael Riordan has been awarded the 2025 Abraham Pais Prize for History of Physics by the American Physical Society. Michael was cited “For important contributions to the history of post-World War II physics, including the discovery of quarks, the invention and development of the transistor, and the search for the Higgs boson; and for making…
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SCIPP Postdoc Jennifer Ott Recognized for National Postdoc Appreciation Week
UC Santa Cruz has released an article honoring various postdoctoral scholars for their contributions in their respective fields and departments. Amon those honored is our own, Jennifer Ott, recognized for her significant role in Bruce Schumm’s Fast Sensors Group, as well as her participation in quality control of pixel-detector modules for the future upgrade of…
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SCIPP Researchers Elected to Lead Large International Collaborations in Astrophysics
SCIPP researchers Amy Furniss and Tesla Jeltema have been elected to leadership positions in the VERITAS and DESC collaborations, respectively. Furniss, a new Associate Teaching Professor in the Physics Department, will serve as spokesperson for the Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System (VERITAS), a high-energy gamma-ray observatory with approximately 100 collaborators. VERITAS is made…
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Shiva Abbaszadeh receives $3.7M grant from DOE for Energy Earthshot Initiative
Earlier this year, SCIPP faculty member Shiva Abbaszadeh (Electrical and Computer Engineering) won a three-year $3.7M Department of Energy (DOE) Energy Earthshot award with a proposal to resolve the paradox of rhizosphere effect on soil carbon cycle. Abbaszadeh’s proposal “addresses the core mission of the Energy Earthshot by understanding how plant roots affect soil organic…
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SCIPP Student Samantha Contreras wins Prestigious Goldwater Scholarship
Congratulations to Samantha Contreras, a physics undergrad at UC Santa Cruz and a researcher for the ATLAS group at SCIPP, who was recently named a Goldwater Scholar by the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation. Read more about it here.
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Altmannshofer and Haber named Outstanding Referees by APS
Congratulations to SCIPP faculty Wolfgang Altmannshofer and Howard Haber for being honored as Outstanding Referees by the Americal Physical Society. The Outstanding Referees Program recognizes scientists based on their manuscript review reports for the APS journals over the course of a career. Fewer than 0.2% of APS members are recognized each year. Michael Dine was named Outstanding…
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Graduate Division Outstanding Postdoctoral Scholar Award for Giordon Stark and others
UC Santa Cruz strives to promote postdoctoral scholars that embody the mission and high standards of this university. This award recognizes postdoctoral scholars who show excellence in one or more of the following: exceptional research and/or creative activities, leadership, mentorship, and service. Postdoctoral scholars are individuals who have recently completed a doctoral degree and, under…
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NERSC AY 2022 DOE Mission Science Allocation Award
Two astrophysics research groups that SCIPP senior member Joel Primack leads received major awards of supercomputer time from the DOE-funded National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The computing these groups are doing at NERSC simulates galaxy formation in the context of the modern standard LambdaCDM theory of cosmology, dark…
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SCIPPer Steve Ritz is now the Rubin Observatory Project Scientist
See below text or click here for article on webpage. Dear Colleagues, Since my appointment as Director of Rubin Construction I’ve been working with the team to set up further appointments in the Director’s office (pending formal NSF approval). For the position of Deputy Director for Rubin Construction for AURA/NSF I am honored to announce…
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SCIPP and Physics PhD student, Yuzhan Zao, receives Graduate Instrumentation Research Award
Funding from the American Physical Society program supports graduate student Yuzhan Zao’s research on silicon detectors for particle physics experiments. Congratulations Yuzhan!
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SCIPP Member and Physics Professor Michael Hance latest recipient of the UCSC faculty’s Excellence in Teaching Award. Congratulations, Mike!
SCIPP Member and Physics Professor Michael Hance latest recipient of the UCSC faculty’s Excellence in Teaching Award. Congratulations, Mike!
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Congratulations to the 2021 Deans’ and Chancellor’s Undergraduate Research Award winners in SCIPP!
DEANS’ UNDERGRADUATE AWARDS: Dean’s Awards are granted to fifty of the most excellent undergraduate research theses or projects (ten from each academic division) completed at UCSC during the academic year. Each Dean’s award project will receive $100 for outstanding achievement in their division. CHANCELLOR’S UNDERGRADUATE AWARDS: Fifteen Chancellor’s Awards are granted to the most outstanding…
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SCIPP Member and Distinguished Professor of Physics, Steve Ritz, receives Accessibility Champion award!
https://news.ucsc.edu/2021/05/accessibility-champion.html
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SCIPP and Physics Graduate Student, Heather Mentzer, was just selected again to receive a Bruce Lane Memorial Scholarship. Congratulations Heather!
https://retirees.ucsc.edu/scholarships/brucelanescholarship/
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Please join us in welcoming Professor Tesla Jeltema as the new SCIPP Associate Director!
Tesla’s research experience in astrophysics and her leadership in international collaborations will be important as a number of astronomical survey projects ramp up. She will also focus on strengthening our SCIPP outreach and mentoring activities. Please welcome Tesla to this new role.
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Please join us in welcoming Professor Jason Nielsen as the new SCIPP Director!
Check out the Santa Cruz Sentinel article: “Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics undergoes leadership transition.”
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SCIPP Member and Distinguished Professor of Physics, Steve Ritz, is this years winner of the divisions Outstanding Faculty Award.
This award is the divisions highest honor for faculty achievement, recognizing combined excellence in research, teaching, and service. Congratulations Steve!