2009UCSD astrophysicist Frank Shu was awarded the Catherine Wolfe Bruce Gold Medal for lifetime achievement in astronomy. His contributions to astrophysics range from the density-wave theory of spiral structure in disk galaxies, to the process of mass transfer in interacting binary stars, to modeling the formation of stars and planetary systems. [More] UCB professor Alex Filippenko elected to National Academy of Sciences, in recognition of distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. This is one of the highest honors that can be awarded to a US scientist. [More] UCSC assistant professor Mark Krumholz was awarded a 2009 Sloan Research Fellowship. Sloan Foundation Fellowships support the work of exceptional young researchers early in their academic careers and include a $50,000 grant providing unrestricted support for research over a two-year period. [More] 2008UCSC professor & Department Chair Sandra Faber was awarded the 2009 Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science, for her extraordinary advances in astrophysics and innovative leadership in astronomical facilities development. [More] CfAO Director & UCSC professor Claire Max was awarded Princeton's Madison Medal, a top honor for alumni. The award honors her pioneering work in adaptive optics (AO) which revolutionized earth based telescopes, resulting in clearer observation and imaging. [More] Astronomy & Astrophysics professor Douglas Lin has just received an Outstanding Faculty Award for 2007-08. This award honors excellence in research, teaching, and service. [More] UCSC astrophysicist Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz wins prestigious Packard Fellowship, awarded to support young scientists and engineers who show exceptional promise and creativity. [More] UCLA professor Andrea Ghez wins 2008 MacArthur Fellowship, awarded to support creative and groundbreaking researchers with unrestricted funding over the next five years. [More] UCB professor Reinhard Genzel wins Million-dollar Shaw Prize, in recognition of his role in demonstrating the Milky Way contains a black hole at its center. [More] UCSC professor and CfAO Director Claire Max elected to National Academy of Sciences. for her many contributions to plasma physics, astronomy, and astronomical instrumentation. Election to the academy is considered one of the highest honors that can be accorded a scientist or engineer. [More] 2007UCSC professor Sandra Faber was elected to 2007 AAAS Fellows. for contributions to understanding of galaxies, dark matter, and the formation of large-scale structure in the universe, and for scientific leadership in the community [More] UCB professor & LBNL astrophysicist Saul Perlmutter was awarded the 2007 Gruber Cosmology Prize. Perlmutter and Brian Schmidt of Australian National University share this prize for their roles in the seminal discovery that the expansion of the universe is accelerating. [More] Douglas Lin was named founding director of the Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics (KIAA) at Peking University in Beijing, China. Lin will keep his faculty position at UCSC while he helps launch the new institute, one of two scientific institutes established in China last year with funding from the Kavli Foundation. [More] Alex Filippenko was awarded the Richtmyer Memorial Award of the American Association of Physics Teachers for astronomy education achievements and his groundbreaking research in observational cosmology. [More] 2006Astrophysicist Adriane Steinacker was awarded a UCSC Excellence in Teaching Award for 2006-7. The award review process includes student nominations, appraisal of the student evaluations, and contributions to the academic life at UCSC. Student evaluations cite Adriane's devotion to astronomy, to teaching, and to students as individuals. Alex Filippenko was named Professor of the Year. Sponsored by The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and administered by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, this award is the only national initiative designed to recognize undergraduate teaching excellence in undergraduate teaching and mentoring. [More] Marc Davis was awarded the Heineman Prize for outstanding work in astrophysics. The AAS gave this award for for Marc's pioneering work on the large-scale structure of the Universe. [More] Professor Joseph Miller was awarded UCB's highest honor, the Berkeley Medal. Joe Miller, who served as director of UCO/Lick Observatory for 14 years before stepping down last year, also received the UC Citation of Excellence. Both awards were presented at a dinner in Miller's honor on October 20, 2006. [More] Constance Rockosi was awarded a prestigious Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering, which honors young scientists who show exceptional promise and creativity. She plans to use the award to develop a 3-dimensional pictures of how stars are moving through our galaxy. [More] Professor George F. Smoot of Lawrence Berkeley National Labs was awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics. With John C. Mather of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, he imaged the infant universe, revealing a pattern of temperature variations which evolved into today's universe. [More] Professor Sandra Faber was awarded the Centennial Medal of the Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, which honors alumni for contributions to society that have emerged from their graduate education at Harvard. [More] Professor and CfAO Director Claire Max received Chabot Science Award in recognition of her work in adaptive optics, honoring her excellence in scientific and technological discovery. [More] Supernovae and gamma-ray burst authority Stan Woosley elected to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of his distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. [More] 2005Professor emeritus Robert P. Kraft was awarded the 2005 Catherine Wolfe Bruce Gold Medal by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP). This prestigious Medal, awarded annually since 1898, is the highest honor awarded by the ASP, recognizing a lifetime of fundamental contributions to the field of astronomy. [More] Professor Piero Madau has received the Humboldt Research Award, honoring his lifetime achievement in theoretical cosmology. Award recipients are invited to work on their own research projects with colleagues at German research institutions. [More] Professor Stan Woosley Awarded AAS 2005 Rossi Prize for his pioneering work in modeling supernovae and gamma-ray bursts, the most violent explosions in the universe. Read more or view gamma-ray burst animation (third animation). Woosley was also awarded the 2005 Hans A. Bethe Prize in recognition of his outstanding work. [More]
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