Catalyst Award News

Read more about findings from the President's Research Catalyst Awards

Press Releases

UC President announces 2017 Research Catalyst Awards (December 2016)

UC President announces 2016 Research Catalyst Award recipients (December 2015)

UC President announces $10 million research awards initiative, first group of recipients (December 2014)

UCLA to lead $10 million California conservation project (July 2019)

Sex tweets help track spread of sexually transmitted infections (January 2018)

Fourteen HHMI professors take on important challenges in science education (December 2017)

UCSD undergrads re-create at-risk archaeology sites in virtual reality (April 2017)

New technology at UC Merced is taking visitors on a trip around the world (April 2017)

Applicants for UCSB teacher program up 25% for 2017 (March 2017)

CALeDNA program assesses biodiversity in California soil (February 2017)

UC launches new efforts to address California’s teacher shortage (January 2017)

UCSB education professor receives Catalyst Award to lead consortium (December 2016)

Catalyst Award winner to study how megafires will impact forest food web (December 2016)

UC Catalyst Award furthers paleogenomics research (December 2016)

New 3-D CAVEkiosk at UC San Diego brings cyber-archaeology to Geisel Library (October 2016)

Cyber-archaeology, big data and the race to save threatened cultural heritage sites (February 2016)

UCLA Catalyst recipient featured in 60 Minutes' "Mountain Lions of LA" (January 2016)

UC San Diego's Thomas E. Levy among recipients of President's Research Catalyst Award(December 2015)

Catalyst Award supports conservation genomics (December 2015)

Award led by UC Berkeley catalyzes dark matter research (December 2015)

UC Riverside leads study on soil to understand drought (December 2015)

UCSF receives Catalyst Award to address prison health care crisis (December 2014)

UCSC leads effort to study effects of climate change on ecosystems (December 2014)

UCLA-led research into big data among first recipients of UC president research awards (December 2014)

Team assembled by UCSD researcher wins $300K award for music-and-science initiative (December 2014)

UCSB physicist receives UC President’s Research Catalyst Award (December 2014)