Samuel Cheney ’19 MFA won a Pushcart Prize for his poem “On the Footage of Monet Painting.”

Kiara C. Eldred ’20 PhD received a Damon Runyon-Sohn Pediatric Cancer Fellowship Award for her research on retinoblastoma.

Nicole Gaudelli ’13 PhD, head of gene-editing technologies at Beam Technologies, was named to Fortune’s annual 40 under 40 list.

David Jones ’17 PhD received NASA’s Einstein Fellowship. Jones researches supernova cosmology in the era of cosmological tensions at UC Santa Cruz.