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From Flammable Buildings to Slavery’s Hidden Legacy to Tainted Groundwater: Projects from 10 Countries Win GIJN’s 2025 Sigma Awards

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Jennifer LaFleur is among the winners of the 2025 Signma Award celebrating the best data journalism from around the world.

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Six UC Berkeley Faculty Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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

Two Berkeley Professors Receive Prestigious Guggenheim Fellowships

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

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2025 MTI Innovator Awardees Announced

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

Political Science Professor Amy Lerman Awarded 2025 Carnegie Fellowship

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.

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Seven Faculty Named Fellows of American Association for the Advancement of Science

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

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Brian Staskawicz Awarded Wolf Prize in Agriculture

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 Young Faculty Members Named Sloan Fellows

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

Noah Whiteman Among the Recipients of the 2025 GSA Award

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Noah Whiteman, Professor of Genetics, Genomics, Evolution and Development, is a 2025 recipient of the Genetics Society of America Medal for outstanding contributions to the field of genetics.

Michael I. Jordan Receives Frontiers of Knowledge Award for Advances in Machine Learning

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The predictive algorithms created by Jordan laid the foundations for generative AI models like those powering ChatGPT or Amazon’s recommender systems.

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Three Berkeley Engineering Professors Named to NAE

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

IRE announces winners of the 2024 Philip Meyer Journalism Award

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“40 Acres and a Lie,” Center for Public Integrity, Reveal, Mother Jones, PRX
By Alexia Fernández Campbell, Pratheek Rebala, April Simpson, Jennifer LaFleur, Nadia Hamdan, Cynthia Rodriguez and Roy Hurst

Stuart Bale Awarded the 2025 Arctowski Medal

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

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Professor and Alums Win Prestigious duPont-Columbia Awards for Investigative Stories

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

Michael I. Jordan Receives Frontiers of Knowledge Award

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

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UC Berkeley’s Jennifer Doudna Receives National Medal of Technology and Innovation

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

Ken Ribet Awarded Math Prize for Influential Proof

Berkeley mathematics professor awarded the Steele Prize of the American Mathematical Society.

Psychology Researchers Awarded $4.5 Million Grant for Bipolar Disorder Study

Berkeley psychology researchers score a $4.5 million grant aimed to improve the lives of those suffering from bipolar disorder.

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CITRIS Announces Recipients of Inaugural Innovation Fellowship and AIC Awards

Berkeley professor awarded the Innovation Fellowship and AIC Awards for their research in rapid crop bioengineering.

UC Berkeley Engineer Homayoon Kazerooni Elected to the National Academy of Inventors

Berkeley engineering professor Homayoon Kazerooni has been named a 2024 fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.

Teresa Head-Gordon, Ph.D. To be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite

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Professor Head-Gordon is being inducted "For outstanding contributions to the development of fundamental computational methodologies applied to macromolecular assemblies, disease aggregation, molecular liquids, and biomaterials", according to AIMBE.

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James A. Robinson, a New Nobel Laureate, Left Lasting Impact at Berkeley

Robinson helped to transform the study of development in low-income countries, and built a network of influential former students.

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David Baker, a UC Berkeley Ph.D., Awarded 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Three Nobel Prize winners this year share a UC Berkeley connection.

Hilary Hoynes Awarded 2024 Daniel M. Holland Medal for Groundbreaking Work in Child Poverty

UC Berkeley Economics and Public Policy Professor has been awarded the 2024 Daniel M. Holland Medal by the National Tax Association.

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Kristin Persson Receives Distinguished Scientist Fellow Award

Prominent scientist honored for pioneering data-driven approach to accelerate clean energy innovations

Yang Dan wins Peter Seeburg Integrative Neuroscience Prize

Congratulations to HWNI member Yang Dan for winning the 2024 Peter Seeburg Integrative Neuroscience Prize!

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UC Berkeley Neuroscientist and Nanoscientist Among This Year’s Kavli Prize Winners

Doris Tsao shares prize in neuroscience, while Paul Alivisatos shares prize in nanoscience

Michael Yartsev wins Boehringer Ingelheim FENS Research Award

Michael Yartsev's Our leverages the power of natural behavior to uncover general principles of higher-level brain functions related to learning & memory, group sociality, and communication.

UC Berkeley Political Science Professor David Broockman Awarded 2024 Carnegie Fellowship

His research challenges common beliefs about political polarization and offers strategies for political campaigns to persuade voter.

UC Berkeley Faculty Members Elected to National Academy of Sciences

Two Berkeley professors were recognized into the National Academy of Sciences for their distinguished and continuing contributions in original research.

Professor Teresa Head-Gordon awarded the Humboldt Research Award

The award, which is one of up to 100 the Foundation grants annually, recognizes internationally acclaimed scholars for their lifetime contributions.

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DTI PIs Elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences

Two DTI researchers were elected to the 2024 class of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences announced on Wednesday, April 24.

Seven UC Berkeley Scientists Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Seven UC Berkeley scientists — including a chemist, a psychologist, an engineer, two biologists and two physicists — are among 250 new members elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Six UC Berkeley Scientists Elected Lifetime Fellows of AAAS

Six UC Berkeley researchers have been elected 2023 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals.

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UC Berkeley Historian, Documentary Filmmaker Are 2024 Guggenheim Fellows

Professors Jennifer Redfearn and John Connelly are two new recipients of Guggenheim Fellowships, which are given annually to “culture-creators” from dozens of scholarly disciplines, artistic fields, academic institutions and areas of the U.S. and Canada.