Professor Steven Luck teaching at the front of his classroom.
Professor Steven Luck of the Department of Psychology and the Center for Mind and Brain was given this year's UC Davis Teaching Prize during his class on December 6, 2024. (Gregory Urquiaga/UC Davis)

Psychologist of ‘Attention’ Receives UC Davis Teaching Prize

Highest Honor for Teaching and Scholarship

  • by Alex Russell, College of Letters and Science

How the brain remembers has a lot to do with focus. It’s in this area of cognitive science that Steven Luck, professor of psychology at the University of California, Davis, has built a career pushing the frontiers of both science and teaching.

On Friday, Dec. 6, Luck and hundreds of his students in Psychology 1Y were surprised with the news that Luck has won the 2024-2025 UC Davis Prize for Undergraduate Teaching and Scholarly Achievement. The award honors faculty for exceptional teaching and scholarship. The donor-funded $75,000 prize, established in 1986 and supported by the UC Davis Foundation, is among the largest of its kind in the country. 

Luck, the 38th winner of the UC Davis Prize for Undergraduate Teaching and Scholarly Achievement, will be honored at a gala at the UC Davis Conference Center on Feb. 21, 2025. Previous winners are listed on the UC Davis Academic Affairs website.  

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