Faculty Award Recipients in the News

Berkeley professors Ana Claudia Arias and Tahir Ghani named as 2025 fellows.

Puthussery’s discoveries about the retina are paving the way for new treatments for eye disease and vision loss

Yaghi created a field called reticular chemistry, which involves stitching together molecular building blocks to form porous structures — metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) — with myriad applications.

The Nobel Prize committee honored Clarke "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunneling and energy quantization in an electric circuit." These circuits were forerunners of the qubits in many quantum computers.

Berkeley psychology professor receives award for his study of human emotion, power and the concept of awe throughout his career.

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.