CCS Students Receive National Level Awards

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships, Hertz Fellowship, and Goldwater Scholarship Awards

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships

Jasen Liu (CCS Biology ‘19), Shelby Shankel (CCS Chemistry & Biochemistry ‘18), Sam Aronson (CCS Physics ‘17), Dolev Bluvstein (CCS Physics ‘19) and David Rower (CCS Physics ‘19) have each received a prestigious and highly competitive National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. They will use these fellowships to pursue Master's or Doctoral research at the graduate school of their choice. Since 1952, over 50,000 students have received this fellowship and 42 are now Nobel Laureates.

Hertz Fellowship

Dolev Bluvstein is also one of eleven researchers to receive the 2019 Hertz Fellowship. The Hertz Fellowship boasts about the freedom it provides recipients to research questions of their choosing. Since 1963 when the fellowship began, previous recipients have gone on to accept the Nobel Prize, the National Medal of Science, the Turing Award, the Breakthrough Prize, and the MacArthur Fellowship. Check out this UCSB Current article for details on Dolev’s project and faculty perspectives on this achievement from CCS Interim Dean Bruce Tiffney and Bluvstein’s research advisor, Professor Ania Jayich.

Find out more about the fellowship and the recipients at the Hertz Foundation.

2019 Goldwater Scholarship Awards

Haley Bowden (CCS Physics ‘20) and Ryan Sadjadi (CCS Biology ‘20) are recipients of the 2019 Goldwater Scholarship Award. Across the United States, 496 students were awarded, two from UC Santa Barbara. We are proud to have both recipients among our CCS family. Bowden wishes to conduct research in astrophysics and support the education of women and other minorities in physics. Sadjadi’s lab is currently working to uncover a potential genetic and/or epigenetic cause of type 2 diabetes.

Congratulations

CCS would like to congratulate these and all of our students on the radical curiosity that has led them to their achievements. We are glad to see you grow and can’t wait to see what you will achieve in the future.

CCS appreciates hearing about the achievements of our students and alumni. If you have been published, received a fellowship, will be presenting at a conference, or been otherwise recognized, please email kailyn@ccs.ucsb.edu.