Awards, Fellowships, Honors and Promotions
Awards
Faculty/Staff
| Inaugural recipient of the American Society of Pharmacognosy (ASP) Phillip Crews Mentorship Award | Phil Crews |
| UCSC PBS Division Outstanding Staff Award | Patti Schell |
Alumni
| 2025 ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry Young Investigator Award for his PhD work at UCSC | Dr. John Wenger |
Graduate Students
| American Society for Mass Spectrometry – Graduate Student Award | Jason Guerrero |
| American Society for Mass Spectrometry, Asilomar Conference on New Frontiers in Ion Mobility-Mass Spectrometry – Poster Award Winner | Laura Rodriguez-Velandia |
| Chemical Biology in the Bay Area – Poster Award Winner and Phi Beta Kappa, Northern California Hendees Award Recipient | Robert Shepherd |
| John and Grace Wang Award in Physical Chemistry | Dingjie Pan |
| John and Grace Wang Award in Physical Chemistry | Qiu Ren |
| John and Grace Wang Award in Physical Chemistry | Rachael Richards |
| John and Grace Wang Award in Physical Chemistry | David Zeitz |
| RNA Society Meeting Poster Award | Ayyam Ibrahim |
| UCSC Activating Innovative Graduate Research Award | Jason Guerrero |
| UCSC Activating Innovative Graduate Research Award | Laura Rodriguez-Velandia |
| UCSC Grad Slam – 1st Place | Jenna Myers |
Undergraduates
| Bunnet Award | Surina Beal |
| Bunnet Award | Madhu Ayyer |
| Crews Award | Arely Guijarro |
| Crews Award | Sarah Creech |
| Drexler Award | Isabel Cline |
| Drexler Award | Emma Krebs |
| Drexler Award | Celeste McGuire |
| Drexler Award | Carolina Saucedo |
| Drexler Award | Lukas Vargas |
| Fink Award | Quynh Nhu Le |
| Fink Award | Ananya Manjunath |
| Fink Award | Dalia Riad |
Fellowships
Graduate Students
| ACE Teaching Fellow | Gabriel Parkinson |
| ACE Teaching Fellow | Carnia Villegas |
| Advancing Science Conference Grant to Attend 2025 NOBCChE Conference | Addis Getahun |
| ARCS Scholar | John Tressel |
| CIRM Predoctoral Training Grant (Institute for the Biology of Stem Cells) | Eva Edelson |
| Dissertation Quarter Fellowship | Anica Pinongcos |
| Dissertation Quarter Fellowship | Jackson Baumgartner |
| Dissertation Quarter Fellowship | Xinzhe Xue |
| Dissertation Quarter Fellowship | Dingjie Pan |
| HSI-DDI Fellow | Jason Guerrero |
| President’s Dissertation Year Fellowship | Rachael Richards |
| QB3 Fellowship | Radcliff Huffman |
| Summer Dissertation Quarter Fellowship | Kai-Chun Chou |
| Summer Dissertation Quarter Fellowship | Qiu Ren |
| Tony Fisk Memorial Fellowship | Jackson Baumgartner |
| Tony Fisk Memorial Fellowship | Sophia Hollow |
| UC President’s Pre-Professoriate Fellowship | Addis Getahun |
Honors
Faculty/Staff
| 2024 Inaugural Highly Ranked Scholar, ScholarGPS | Jin Zhang |
| AAAS Fellow | Ted Holman |
| Highly Cited Researcher (2024), Web of Science / Clarivate Analytics | Yat Li |
Graduate Students
| Phi Beta Kappa, Northern California | Robert Shepherd |
| Selected Participant, 2025 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting (Germany) | Robbie Shepherd |
| Selected Participant, 2025 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting (Germany) | John Wenger |
| Selected Participant, 2025 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting (Germany) | David Zeitz |
| Scientist Mentoring & Diversity Program for Biotechnology Scholar | Ayyam Ibrahim |
Undergraduates
| STARRS Marilyn and Raymond C. Davis Memorial Scholarship | Alissa Lance-Byrne |
PromotionsPromotions
Faculty
| Associate Professor (Tenure) | Shaun McKinnie |