Faculty Award Recipients in the News

Six UC Berkeley faculty members from a diverse range of fields are newly elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

The Guggenheim Foundation awards two Berkeley professors one of the highest intellectual honors on North American academics and creatives.

As federal research funding faces growing uncertainty, the Molecular Therapeutics Initiative (MTI) at UC Berkeley is stepping up to support bold scientific innovation.

A Berkeley professor of public policy and political science has been awarded a Carnegie Fellowship by the Carnegie Corporation for her work focusing on political polarization in the United States.

The 2024 class of AAAS fellows includes UC Berkeley researchers from the fields of biology, physics, psychology, engineering and statistics.

A Berkeley professor has been awarded the 2025 Wolf Prize in Agriculture for his discoveries of the immune system and disease resistance in plants.

Six researchers at UC Berkeley have been awarded a prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship, granted for their creativity, innovation and research accomplishments in their fields.

The National Academy of Engineering has elected three Berkeley engineering professors for their outstanding contributions to engineering practice, research or education.

Bale has revolutionized our understanding of the energization of and heat transport in the solar wind.

Berkeley current faculty and alums win the Prestigious Dupont-Columbia Award in journalism.

Berkeley EECS professor receives Frontiers of Knowledge Award for their core contributions to the field of machine learning.

Jennifer Doudna has been awarded a National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the nation’s highest honor for technological achievement.