Awards, Fellowships, Honors and Promotions

Awards

Faculty/Staff

Inaugural recipient of the American Society of Pharmacognosy (ASP) Phillip Crews Mentorship AwardPhil Crews
UCSC PBS Division Outstanding Staff AwardPatti Schell

Alumni

2025 ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry Young Investigator Award for his PhD work at UCSCDr. John Wenger

Graduate Students

American Society for Mass Spectrometry – Graduate Student AwardJason Guerrero
American Society for Mass Spectrometry, Asilomar Conference on New Frontiers in Ion Mobility-Mass Spectrometry – Poster Award WinnerLaura Rodriguez-Velandia
Chemical Biology in the Bay Area – Poster Award Winner and Phi Beta Kappa, Northern California Hendees Award RecipientRobert Shepherd
John and Grace Wang Award in Physical ChemistryDingjie Pan
John and Grace Wang Award in Physical ChemistryQiu Ren
John and Grace Wang Award in Physical ChemistryRachael Richards
John and Grace Wang Award in Physical ChemistryDavid Zeitz
RNA Society Meeting Poster AwardAyyam Ibrahim
UCSC Activating Innovative Graduate Research Award Jason Guerrero
UCSC Activating Innovative Graduate Research Award Laura Rodriguez-Velandia
UCSC Grad Slam – 1st PlaceJenna Myers

Undergraduates

Bunnet AwardSurina Beal
Bunnet AwardMadhu Ayyer
Crews AwardArely Guijarro
Crews AwardSarah Creech
Drexler AwardIsabel Cline
Drexler AwardEmma Krebs
Drexler AwardCeleste McGuire
Drexler AwardCarolina Saucedo
Drexler AwardLukas Vargas
Fink AwardQuynh Nhu Le
Fink AwardAnanya Manjunath
Fink AwardDalia Riad

Fellowships

Graduate Students

ACE Teaching FellowGabriel Parkinson
ACE Teaching FellowCarnia Villegas
Advancing Science Conference Grant to Attend 2025 NOBCChE ConferenceAddis Getahun
ARCS ScholarJohn Tressel
CIRM Predoctoral Training Grant (Institute for the Biology of Stem Cells)Eva Edelson
Dissertation Quarter FellowshipAnica Pinongcos
Dissertation Quarter FellowshipJackson Baumgartner
Dissertation Quarter Fellowship Xinzhe Xue
Dissertation Quarter FellowshipDingjie Pan
HSI-DDI FellowJason Guerrero
President’s Dissertation Year Fellowship Rachael Richards
QB3 FellowshipRadcliff Huffman
Summer Dissertation Quarter FellowshipKai-Chun Chou
Summer Dissertation Quarter FellowshipQiu Ren
Tony Fisk Memorial FellowshipJackson Baumgartner
Tony Fisk Memorial FellowshipSophia Hollow
UC President’s Pre-Professoriate FellowshipAddis Getahun

Honors

Faculty/Staff

2024 Inaugural Highly Ranked Scholar, ScholarGPSJin Zhang
AAAS FellowTed Holman
Highly Cited Researcher (2024), Web of Science / Clarivate AnalyticsYat Li

Graduate Students

Phi Beta Kappa, Northern CaliforniaRobert 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 ScholarAyyam Ibrahim

Undergraduates

STARRS Marilyn and Raymond C. Davis Memorial ScholarshipAlissa Lance-Byrne

PromotionsPromotions

Faculty

Associate Professor (Tenure)Shaun McKinnie
Last modified: Jan 26, 2026