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.
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.
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.
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
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
The predictive algorithms created by Jordan laid the foundations for generative AI models like those powering ChatGPT or Amazon’s recommender systems.
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
“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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
2024 Bakar Prize Recipients Target Skin Disease, Spintronics and Tree Bark
Five UC Berkeley faculty members have been awarded the 2024 Bakar Prize, which is designed to give a boost to campus innovators as they translate their discoveries into real-world solutions.
Nine Young Faculty Members Receive Prized Sloan Research Fellowships
The largest number of awardees from any institution may be a sign of the University of California, Berkeley's ability to attract the most promising early-career researchers.
Three UC Berkeley Professors Named to NAE
Three UC Berkeley faculty members have been recently elected into The National Academy of Engineering, one of the highest professional honors for engineers.
Chemist Omar Yaghi Wins Solvay Prize for Climate, Materials Breakthroughs
The award honors chemistry leaders whose discoveries are shaping the future of the field and humanity.
Two UC Berkeley Engineers Elected to the National Academy of Inventors
UC Berkeley engineering professors Ashok Gadgil and Boris Rubinsky are named 2023 fellows of the National Academy of Inventors, the highest professional distinction awarded solely to inventors.
University of California Researchers Win Grant to Study Misinformation Surrounding Reproductive Health on Social Media
UC Berkeley researchers investigate and address the prevalence of misinformation and disinformation present on social media platforms like TikTok regarding sexual and reproductive health information.
Ashok Gadgil Awarded National Medal of Technology and Innovation
UC Berkeley distinguished professor awarded the nation's highest honor for technological achievement for his work in safe drinking water technologies.
UC Berkeley Economics Professors Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman Named 2023 Citation Laureates
The 2023 Citation Laureate is a distinction that recognizes both as amongst the world's top economists whose work is considered to be of Nobel-prize class.
Maria Laura Delle Monache Receives IEEE TCCPS Mid-Career Award
Delle Monache was recognized "for contributions to modeling and control of CPS Transportation systems."
Ashok Gadgil Recognized As 2023 R&D Leader of the Year
UC Berkeley professor Ashok Gadgil was named as the R&D Leader of the Year in the annual R&D 100 Awards program sponsored by R&D World Magazine.
Michael Zuerch Receives Prestigious DOE Early Career Research Program Award
Assistant Professor of Chemistry Michael Zuerch has received a prestigious DOE Early Career Research Program Award for his research entitled "Ultrafast mechanisms of chirality control in electronic materials".
Karthik Shekhar Named a 2023 McKnight Scholar
Karthik Shekhar has been awarded this scholarship for research on the evolution of neural diversity and patterning in the visual system.
Eva Nogales Wins Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine
Biophysicist honored for pioneering electron microscopy research that elucidated the earliest steps of gene transcription.
How Does the Universe Work? Promoting Diversity Can Help Answer That
Bioengineering Professor Aaron Streets says it is important for those who conduct that research “to represent the full diversity of human genetic variation.
Khatharya Um Receives Major Prize in Asian Studies
The Fukuoka Prize honors the outstanding work of individuals, groups and organizations in preserving and creating the unique and diverse cultures of Asia.
Two UC Berkeley Faculty Awarded Berlin Prize
African American Studies Professor Leigh Raiford and Berkeley Law Professor Saira Mohamed are winners of the annual Berlin Prize.
National Academy of Sciences Elects Seven From UC Berkeley
There are now 156 UC Berkeley faculty members in the ranks of the NAS.
Catherine Ceniza Choy Receives 2023 Agnes Dillon Randolph Award
The award recognizes her outstanding scholarship documenting the experiences of Filipino nurses in U.S. history and the importance of that history for understanding ongoing issues in healthcare.