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Tag: awards
Law school’s Altholz wins 2013 Yamashita Prize
May 14, 2013:
This year’s Foundation for Change: Thomas I. Yamashita Prize has been awarded to Roxanna Altholz, an assistant clinical professor of law and associate director of the International Human Rights Law Clinic at Berkeley Law. Altholz successfully represented 127 family members of 28 individuals who were forcibly “disappeared” between 1983 and 1985 by Guatemalan security forces.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute names three new campus investigators
May 9, 2013:
Three young faculty members – Nicole King, Michael Rape & Russell Vance – have won the most sought-after appointment for a researcher at any American university: as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. The institute will pay their salaries in the Department of Molecular & Cell Biology and provide research funding, freeing them from constant application for federal research grants.
Three faculty members named to National Academy of Sciences
April 30, 2013:
Structural biologist James Berger, immunologist Daniel Portnoy and mathematician James Sethian have been elected members of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), one of the highest honors given to a scientist or engineer in the United States.
Berkeley named one of America’s ‘Bicycle Friendly Universities’
April 25, 2013:
The Bicycle Friendly University program recognizes institutions of higher education for promoting and providing a more bicycle-friendly campus for students, staff and visitors.
Ten Berkeley faculty named to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
April 24, 2013:
Ten Berkeley professors have been named members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a prestigious 233-year-old honorary society of national leaders from academia, business, public affairs and the humanities.
John Hartwig honored for work in synthetic chemistry
March 6, 2013:
The American Chemical Society awarded UC Berkeley chemist John Hartwig its Herbert C. Brown Award For Creative Research In Synthetic Methods “for the creative discovery and insightful development of fundamentally new, broadly utilized” chemical reactions, such as syntheses using transition metals as catalysts.
Economists, computer scientists awarded prestigious Sloan fellowships
February 19, 2013:
UC Berkeley economists Frederico Finan and Yuriy Gorodnichenko and computer scientists Björn Hartmann and Michael Lustig are among 126 young scholars awarded prestigious Sloan Research Fellowships for 2013.
German-born Michael Rape awarded prize honoring young immigrant scientists
February 5, 2013:
German-born Michael Rape, associate professor of molecular and cell biology, is one of three recipients of the 2013 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science, which is awarded every year to immigrant scientists under 39 who have demonstrated outstanding achievement. The prize and $35,000 will be presented in April in New York City.
Chemist Jean Frechet to receive Japan Prize
January 30, 2013:
Emeritus professor Jean Fréchet, a Professor of the Graduate School in chemistry and chemical and biological engineering, has received a 2013 Japan Prize, one of the most prestigious international awards in science and technology.
Physics society honors Birgeneau for ‘statesmanship in science’
January 24, 2013:
The American Institute of Physics has awarded Chancellor Robert Birgeneau the 2012 Karl Taylor Compton Medal for Leadership in Physics. The medal honors Birgeneau’s advocacy for women in science as well as his research.
Prize highlights young economist’s steady, bold trajectory
January 16, 2013:
BERKELEY — UC Berkeley economist Ulrike Malmendier could have chosen any number of career paths. After all, she speaks six languages, is fascinated with Latin and Greek, and loves physics and math. While working on a Ph.D. in law, another focus of her eclectic interests, she took a modern-economics course and that changed everything. Malmendier set off to explore the [...]
Barclay Simpson honored with Berkeley Medal
January 10, 2013:
Berkeley alumnus, businessman and philanthropist Barclay Simpson has been awarded the Berkeley Medal, the university’s top honor.
Top psychologists to present research on sleep, awe and more at ‘Big Easy’ conference
January 10, 2013:
Poor sleep can sour relationships. Powerful people are better at shaking off rebuffs. Moms who run the household are less concerned with rising to power in the workplace, and people who gaze at the vastness of nature tend to be less self-centered. These are among several intriguing findings UC Berkeley psychologists will be presenting at this week’s annual meeting of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology in New Orleans.
Somorjai, Lott honored by National Academy of Sciences
January 9, 2013:
The National Academy of Sciences, the country’s most prestigious scientific organization, has honored UC Berkeley chemist Gabor Somorjai and mathematician John Lott for major contributions to science.
Haas professor named top under-40 finance scholar
January 8, 2013:
Berkeley-Haas Finance Professor Ulrike Malmendier has been awarded the 2013 Fischer Black Prize from the American Finance Association, which honors the top finance scholar under the age of 40 years old. The prize was announced to the public Jan. 7, 2013.
Physicist Art Rosenfeld to receive National Medal of Technology & Innovation
December 26, 2012:
On Dec. 21, President Barack Obama named UC Berkeley and LBNL physicist Arthur Rosenfeld one of this year’s 11 recipients of the National Medal of Technology and Innovation. The annual award honors the nation’s top inventors. Rosenfeld is often called the “godfather of energy efficiency” because of his pioneering work on reducing the nation’s energy usage.
Economist David Card named 2013 AAPSS fellow
December 13, 2012:
Economist David Card is honored for his work “writ large.”
Sanjay Kumar wins Young Investigator Award for neural stem cell research
December 4, 2012:
Dr. Sanjay Kumar, associate professor of bioengineering, has been named the winner of the Young Investigator Award by the journal Stem Cells for leading research into the microenvironmental regulation of neural stem cells. The $10,000 prize is awarded annually to a young scientist whose paper has been judged to be of worldwide significance by a global jury.
Four faculty members named fellows of AAAS
November 29, 2012:
Four UC Berkeley faculty members – plant biologist Sheng Luan, cell biologist Kunxin Luo, nuclear engineer Eric Norman and chemist Evan Williams – are among 702 new fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, bringing the campus total to 227.
New grant will accelerate job creation, economic development in East Bay
November 28, 2012:
Bay Area Congressional leaders announced a $2.2 million investment by five federal agencies that will help create high quality regional jobs in bioscience and medicine manufacturing and make Northern California an epicenter for biotech careers and innovation.
UC Berkeley student among prestigious group of 2013 Rhodes Scholars
November 19, 2012:
Daniel Price, a UC Berkeley senior majoring in engineering and physics, has been named a 2013 Rhodes Scholar. The Rhodes Scholarships, which are the oldest and most celebrated international fellowship awards in the world, provide full financial support for students to pursue a degree at the University of Oxford in England.
Carolyn Bertozzi honored by German foundation for work on sugar chemistry
October 25, 2012:
Carolyn Bertozzi, the T. Z. and Irmgard Chu Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, has been awarded the 2012 Heinrich Wieland Prize for her work on the chemistry of sugars. The prize, accompanied by 50,000 euros, is awarded yearly by the Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation in Germany for biologically and clinically important research.
UCPD lauds citizens for heroism in stopping dog attack
October 19, 2012:
Column by writer Michelle Locke describes the attack and the ceremony honoring two men, one of them her husband, for their role in saving a 6-year-old girl from a pair of off-leash pit-bull mixes.
2012 Berkeley Faculty Service Award shared by Deakin, Gronsky
October 17, 2012:
Elizabeth Deakin, a professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning, and Ronald Gronsky, a professor of materials science and engineering, are joint recipients of the Berkeley Faculty Service Award for 2012.
National Championship Week caps banner year
October 2, 2012:
For Berkeley’s seventh annual National Championship Week, Cal’s student-athletes received a well-deserved heroes’ welcome at a reception hosted by Chancellor Birgeneau at University House.
David Wake and two other Berkeley faculty honored by California Academy
September 28, 2012:
David Wake, amphibian expert and professor emeritus of integrative biology, will receive this year’s Fellows’ Medal, the highest honor of the California Academy of Sciences. Wildlife ecologist Justin Brashares, associate professor of ESPM, and astronomer Steven Beckwith are among 10 newly elected fellows of the academy.
Bernard Sadoulet shares Panofsky Prize for dark matter search
September 27, 2012:
The 2013 Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics was awarded jointly to UC Berkeley physicist Bernard Sadoulet and Stanford’s Blas Cabrera for their development of new techniques for searching for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPS), the most popular candidate for the unseen dark matter that permeates the universe.
$10 million NSF grant to study human factor in cybercrime
September 25, 2012:
Vern Paxson, UC Berkeley professor and researcher at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI), will lead new cybercrime research funded by a $10 million, five-year grant from the National Science Foundation. Researchers from ICSI, UC San Diego and George Mason University will investigate the roles played by economics and social interactions in Internet security. and it will include analysis of the relationships among cybercriminals, who rely upon each other for services and expertise.
Clif Bar in Emeryville snags 2012 Livable Building Award
September 19, 2012:
The Center for the Built Environment announces its Livable Building Award for 2012.
