2024 Revelle Medalist: Jan Talbot

The Revelle Medal is the highest honor given by the chancellor to a retired or emeriti UC San Diego faculty member.

Professor Emerita Jan B. Talbot is a founding member of the Department of Nanoengineering at UC San Diego. Her research helped advance the field of nanomaterials and associated technologies. She also advanced engineering education by working with former dean M. Lea Rudee to develop a graduate material science program for chemical engineering students. Talbot joined the UC San Diego faculty in 1986 after receiving her doctorate in chemical engineering and materials science from the University of Minnesota. She was the first woman faculty in what was then the Department of Applied Mechanics and Engineering Sciences. Talbot served as chair of the Academic Senate and of the Committee on Committees at UC San Diego and later as chair of the Committee on Committees for the UC system. She also served as associate dean for faculty affairs and welfare at the Jacobs School of Engineering and as president of the Electrochemical Society.