Honors & awards archive
SubscribeQuigley medal honors late real estate professor
December 19, 2014: The new John M. Quigley Medal has been established in memory of the late Berkeley-Haas housing expert and his extensive body of scholarly work in the fields of urban economics and housing policy. Professor Quigley passed away in May 2012.
Outstanding staff sought for 2015 COSA awards
December 19, 2014: UC Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks has sent out a call for nominations for exceptional individual staff members and/or teams of staff for the 2015 Chancellor’s Outstanding Staff Awards. The deadline is Jan. 29.
Nominations are open for 2014 Haas Public Service Award
December 19, 2014: Nominations are open for the 2014 Peter E. Haas Public Service Award at UC Berkeley. The award honors alumni who have made an outstanding voluntary contribution in the fields of community service, health care, the environment or education. Nominations are due Feb. 12.
Roberto Zoncu profile: Starving cancer
December 18, 2014: In a profile by The Pew Charitable Trusts, 2014 Pew Scholar Roberto Zoncu discusses the adventure of science and his own research to find a way to starve cancer of nutrients. A native of Sardinia, Italy, Zoncu is an assistant professor of molecular cell biology and a recipient of a NIH Innovator Award.
Berkeley innovators named fellows of National Academy of Inventors
December 16, 2014: Biochemist Jennifer Doudna, chemical engineer Jay Keasling and chemist Richard Mathies were among 170 people named fellows of the National Academy of Inventors. The organization honors innovators who have file patents in the United States.
UC’s first crop of ‘global food’ fellows includes three Berkeley students
December 10, 2014: Three UC Berkeley students are among 54 fellows announced Dec. 9 by the University of California’s Global Food Initiative, launched earlier this year to address food security, health and sustainability issues.
UC Berkeley anthropologist-physician wins Margaret Mead Award
December 9, 2014: Seth Holmes, an assistant professor of the UCSF-UC Berkeley Joint Medical Anthropology program, teaches in Berkeley’s School of Public Health and is the director of ISSI’s Berkeley Center for Social Medicine.
Four UC Berkeley faculty named AAAS fellows
November 24, 2014: Four UC Berkeley faculty members have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for their contributions to advancing science or its applications.
National Medal of Science ceremony streamed live from White House Nov. 20
November 19, 2014: President Barack Obama will honor three UC Berkeley faculty members on Thursday, Nov. 20, at a White House ceremony for the 19 new winners of the National Medals of Science and National Medals of Technology & Innovation.
Diana Bautista receives Young Investigator Award from neuroscience society
November 17, 2014: The Society for Neuroscience presented a Young Investigator Award to Diana Bautista, UC Berkeley assistant professor of integrative biology, at its annual meeting Nov. 17 in Washington, DC. The $15,000 award recognizes outstanding achievements and contributions by young neuroscientists who have recently received advanced professional degree.
Haas MBA student-veteran to be honored at 49ers game
November 10, 2014: First-year Haas MBA student and former Marine Capt. Mike Christman will be on the field at half-time in San Francisco 49ers game on November 23rd, one of 60 people selected to be honored as Tillman Military Scholars. The program recognizes veterans for their leadership and academic excellence.
Berkeley Law team brings home trial-advocacy championship trophy
November 10, 2014: A team from Berkeley Law won the National Institute of Trial Advocacy’s Tournament of Champions, one of the nation’s most prestigious law school competitions.
Fabilli-Hoffer contest: carillon ringing, in 500 words or less
November 3, 2014: In honor of the Campanile’s 150th birthday next spring, the topic for this year’s Fabilli-Hoffer short-essay contest is carillon ringing. All students, staff and faculty are invited to compete.
Physicist Marvin Cohen receives highest honor from Materials Research Society
October 28, 2014: The Materials Research Society has given solid state theorist Marvin L. Cohen its highest honor, the 2014 Von Hippel Award, Cohen, a professor of physics and LBNL scientist, is being recognized for “explaining and predicting properties of materials and for successfully predicting new materials using microscopic quantum theory.” He will receive the award Dec. 3 in Boston.
Maximino Martinez Commons garners $500,000 PG&E award
October 27, 2014: The campus recently celebrated a $500,000 incentive award from Pacific Gas & Electric’s “Savings By Design” program, for building and maintaining Maximino Martinez Commons as a sustainable student-residence hall. The LEED Gold-rated facility is designed to save energy and water and to filter storm-water runoff.
Randy Schekman named to Institute of Medicine
October 21, 2014: Nobelist Randy Schekman, a UC Berkeley professor of cell and developmental biology, has been named to the prestigious Institute of Medicine, one of the highest national honors in the fields of health and medicine.
Two honored with Faculty Service Award
October 13, 2014: Joseph Cerny, an emeritus professor of chemistry, and Margaretta Lovell, the Jay D. McEvoy, Jr., Chair of American Art in the Department of the History of Art, are joint recipients of the Berkeley Faculty Service Award for 2014, given by the Academic Senate.
Three UC Berkeley faculty to receive NIH Innovator Award
October 6, 2014: Three UC Berkeley scientists — Nicholas Ingolia, Michi Taga and Roberto Zoncu — have been recognized as innovators in their fields through new research grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health.
Three faculty members awarded National Medal of Science
October 3, 2014: President Barack Obama has chosen three UC Berkeley faculty members – chemist Judith Klinman, applied mathematician Alexandre Chorin and the late statistician David Blackwelll – to receive the 2014 National Medal of Science. They were among 10 honorees announced Oct. 3 by the White House.
Three Bay Area institutions join forces to seed transformative brain research
September 25, 2014: As scientists rally around President Barack Obama’s BRAIN Initiative, three Bay Area research institutions – UC Berkeley, UCSF and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab – have decided to invest in high-risk, high-gain projects that could jump-start our understanding of the brain. Six new interdisciplinary projects take advantage of new technology, in particular nanotech and optogenetics.
‘HackTheHearst’ top app offers online access to California Indian artifacts
September 24, 2014: An app created by I School students took grand prize for best overall app, and heritage prize for contributions to native communities, at “HackTheHearst.” With “Yapi Kapi,” users can explore online more than 700,000 items from the Hearst Museum of Anthropology.
2014 Berkeley-Rupp Prize for boosting women in architecture, sustainability announced
September 15, 2014: Sheila Kennedy, an internationally recognized architect, innovator and educator, is the 2014 recipient of the Berkeley-Rupp Prize. The award is given by UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design to a design practitioner or academic who has made a significant contribution to advance gender equity in the field of architecture, and whose work emphasizes a commitment to sustainability and community.
Berkeley’s Eco Ensemble to perform at Venice Music Biennale
September 11, 2014: The campus’s new-music “dream team” is headed to Italy for two concerts featuring works by Berkeley music-composition faculty and alumni at what the ensemble”s founder, Edmund Campion, calls “one of the most visible and important sites for new music today.”
Follow noon TweetChat with Janssen Award winner Jennifer Doudna
September 10, 2014: Johnson & Johnson will host a TweetChat featuring Jennifer Doudna (@UCBerkeleyNews) and Emmanuel Charpentier from noon to 1 p.m. Wed., Sept. 10, on the occasion of their receiving the 2014 Janssen Award in Biomedical Research. The chat will be moderated by former Scientific American Editor-in-Chief John Rennie. Follow @JNJInnovation and submit questions using the hashtag #DPJAward.
Professor and poet Robert Hass receives Wallace Stevens Award
August 26, 2014: UC Berkeley English professor Robert Hass has received the Wallace Stevens Prize from the Academy of American Poets, adding to his honors that already include a Pulitzer Prize and serving as the U.S. Poet Laureate from 1995 to 1997.
Tech innovator does good by taking connectivity to people who need it
August 22, 2014: UC Berkeley postdoc Kurtis Heimerl never intended to focus on technology in underdeveloped areas. But stints with the big tech companies didn’t inspire him; working on tech issues in India did. Now, with support from the Blum Center for Developing Countries, he’s involved in development engineering in Indonesia. He was recently recognized by MIT for his innovative humanitarian work.
UC Berkeley engineers among MIT Tech Review top innovators
August 21, 2014: A Berkeley Electrical Engineering and Computer Science post-doc and two Engineering alumni are named to the 2014 MIT Technology Review “35 Innovators Under 35” list. All three are recognized in the humanitarian category.
UC Berkeley ranks No. 4 in ARWU global rankings
August 15, 2014: In the 2014 Academic Ranking of World Universities global rankings of universities, released Aug. 15, UC Berkeley ranked fourth, and No. 1 among U.S. public universities.
Botanist Alan Smith receives award for lifetime work on ferns
August 4, 2014: The American Society of Plant Taxonomists awarded Alan R. Smith, emeritus research botanist of the University Herbarium, its 2014 Asa Gray Award for outstanding lifetime achievement in the field of plant systematics. Smith is an expert on ferns from around the world and is widely recognized as the greatest living student of fern diversity and the undisputed expert of fern identification.
Cognitive scientist Tom Griffiths wins early career impact award
July 30, 2014: UC Berkeley cognitive scientist Tom Griffiths is the 2014 winner of the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences Foundation’s “Early Career Impact Award.” The award recognizes scientists who have made major research contributions to the sciences of mind, brain, and behavior.
