Undergraduate Student Prizes and Awards
The Dr. Milton H. Saier, Sr. Memorial Awards Fund was established at UC San Diego in 1998 to support an annual awards program for the Departments of Music, Theatre and Dance, Literature, and Biology. Each year, the Department of Music is given funds by the Saier family for an award to acknowledge “outstanding classical music performance by an undergraduate student.”
The Jazz Society of Lower Southern California, with the assistance of Provost Emeritus John Stewart, has established an endowment which provides two prizes each spring quarter to the graduate student and the undergraduate student who have made the most outstanding contributions to the UC San Diego Jazz Ensemble in the past year. The winner is chosen by Professor Mark Dresser, in consultation with the Jazz Society Board.
ICAM-Music Award -
This award is given to a graduating senior in recognition of achievement in both technical and artistic mastery of the foundations of music and digital media. It is emblematic of accomplishment during a distinguished undergraduate career and, more importantly, the promise of high achievement yet to come. ICAM award winners look beyond the surfaces and learn the underlying aesthetic and scientific principles that will allow them the reinvention of themselves as their careers blossom in a field of endeavor which itself is constantly evolving. ICAM award winners are those who realize that ideas drive technology and the arts, and not the other way around. This award is given with best wishes for a career of meaning and fulfillment in all professional and personal endeavors.
