Physical Sciences Dean Announces Undergraduate Student Awards

Dean Steven Boggs is pictured (far right, first row) with the 2018 Dean's Undergraduate Award for Excellence winners. Photo by Michelle Fredricks, UC San Diego Physical Sciences

December 10, 2020 | By Cynthia Dillon

The Dean of the Division of Physical Sciences Steven Boggs has announced the recipients of the 2020-2021 UC San Diego Physical Sciences Dean’s Undergraduate Award for Excellence. The award considers the division’s origins—with the late Harold Urey and a group of colleagues who strove to create a university that would stress the boundaries of chemistry, mathematics, and physics—recognizing excellence in academics and fundamental research. Today, with nearly 4,000 undergraduate majors enrolled in the Departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Mathematics, and Physics, these students are the current awardees recognized for their academic excellence:

In addition to the recognition of this honor, each student is eligible to receive a monetary award given by division alumni, parents and friends who strongly support scholarly endeavors.

Students Sarah Schwab and Keller Jordan, as well as physics student Aashay Arora, also earned the Silagi Award. This award honors seniors with extraordinary distinction in academic achievement and research accomplishment who are committed to the pursuit of research at a postgraduate level in physical and biological sciences.