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Celebrating honors for faculty, researchers and others

color photograph of Kaylee Laub on stage during Grad Slam competiton
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Jeff Liang
Grad Slam champion Kaylee Laub, April 9, 2026

Innovative environmental education earns top honors at 2026 Grad Slam

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Denise Montell
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Matt Perko
Denise Montell

Professor Denise Montell wins second NIH Pioneer Award, receiving $5.5 million for immune therapy research
Left to right: Anna Boser, Naomi Tague, David Valentine, and Leander Anderegg.
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UC Santa Barbara
Left to right: Anna Boser, Naomi Tague, David Valentine, and Leander Anderegg.

UCSB faculty and students among the American Geophysical Union’s 2024 honorees
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Jeff Liang
Professors Andrew Jayich, left, and Jon Schuller

Two UCSB professors selected by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to be Experimental Physics Investigators
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Academy of Management inductee Linda Putnam establishes award for organizational research scholars
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Four junior faculty members win Sloan Research Fellowships
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Kum-Kum Bhavnani awarded ‘for distinguished leadership’
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Expert on Latin American geography wins teaching award
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Social psychologist Brenda Major wins mentor award, launches scholarship
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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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Mario T. García: A lifetime of achievement in Chicano/a history
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Matt Perko
Brenda Major, May 2024

Brenda Major elected to National Academy of Sciences
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M. Scott Shell, left, and Beth Pruitt, right

A prestigious career honor for two elite engineers
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