Awards

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Arts & culture

UC Berkeley awarded $2.6 million grant to counter arts censorship

The grant, from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will support a multiyear initiative that confronts censorship and surveillance targeting academic and artistic freedom.

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Awards

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

Arts & culture

Berkeley Journalism faculty and alumni shortlisted for Academy Awards

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Awards

Ken Ribet awarded math prize for influential proof

UC Berkeley engineer Homayoon Kazerooni elected to the National Academy of Inventors

Economist James A. Robinson, sitted at a desk in a happily cluttered office, smiling as he waits to start a video interview

Economist James A. Robinson, a new Nobel laureate, left a lasting impact in his years at UC Berkeley

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

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Alumnus Gary Ruvkun shares 2024 Nobel Prize for discovering microRNA

Michael Yartsev stands in a darkened room with his hands on his hips. Yellow and teal lights swirl around him.

UC Berkeley Professor Michael Yartsev named Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator

Omar Yaghi sits in front of a cabinet holding models of chemical structures in different colors

Omar Yaghi wins prestigious Tang Prize for Sustainable Development

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UC Berkeley neuroscientist and nanoscientist among this year’s Kavli Prize winners

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Bakar Fellows program partners with Academic Innovation Catalyst to announce 2024 Spark Awards

Montage of four 2024 University Medal finalists, in long vertical bands, side by side, alternating blue and gold. From left: Lilly Etzenbach; Henry F. Isselbacher; Skylar Li Song; Bryce Wallace

Forced into COVID-era isolation, University Medal finalists embraced resilience, compassion

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UC Berkeley faculty members elected to National Academy of Sciences

Seven UC Berkeley scientists elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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Six UC Berkeley scientists elected lifetime fellows of AAAS

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