Steck Family Award
2023 Steck Award winner and their mentors. From left; Rebecca DuBois, Joseph Cruz, Ted Warburton, Chancellor Larive, lavender grey, Annette Yee Steck, and Loren Steck (Photo by Emily Reynolds)
The Deans’, Chancellor’s, and Steck Awards wish to encourage and stimulate outstanding scholarship and creativity among undergraduate students, based on work developed in courses or programs in the normal pattern of academic activity at UCSC. The Steck Award recognizes the most outstanding senior research project chosen from 15 Chancellor Awards projects.
The undergraduate with the winning thesis/research project for the Steck Award received a $2000 award and their research project was bound. Copies were given to the student, the research mentor(s), the UC Santa Cruz Library, and the Steck Family whose generous contributions made this award possible. In addition, the mentor of the winning project recieved a $1000 award. The recipient and mentor(s) were honored at the Chancellor's Undergraduate Award Luncheon during Student Acheivement Week.
Photos of the 2023 award ceremony can be viewed (and downloaded) here.
2023 Steck Award Winners (Two)
Student: Joseph M Cruz (Kresge)
Project: Investigating the COBRA NG2 Hemagglutinin for Universal Flu For Vaccine Development
Mentor: Rebecca DuBois and John Dzimianski
Student: lavender higley (Kresge)
Project: Random With A Purpose XXXI: The Community Movement
Mentor: Ted Warburton
