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Current UCSB faculty have received several prestigious awards, including six Nobel Prizes and a Fields Medal. In addition, there are 29 members of the National Academy of Sciences, 27 members of the National Academy of Engineering, and 31 members of the Academy of Arts and Sciences on the faculty.
Allison Anders, American film and television director
Tanya Atwater, professor of Geology, known for work on plate tectonics
Stanley Awramik, professor of Geology, bio-geologist and expert on Precambrian deposits and the origin of life
Alison Brysk, Mellichamp chair in global governance, Global Studies Department
Charles Bazerman, Distinguished Professor of Education at the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education and College of Creative Studies Writing & Literature faculty, 2020 Exemplar Award Winner from the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) and founder of the International Society for the Advancement of Writing Research and its international conference, Writing Research Across Borders …
