Awards

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Awards

Dacher Keltner, UC Berkeley psychologist, receives prestigious lifetime achievement award

Keltner, a distinguished professor of psychology at Berkeley, has led the discipline's study of human emotion, power and the concept of awe throughout his career.

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UC Berkeley teams nab top prizes at national affordable housing competition

a man in a red hat and winter gear stands onboard the green deck of a ship with red railing in Antarctica. He is holding a camera and filming something, looking focused.

Arts & culture

In a tiny boat 7,800 miles from UC Berkeley, graduate students made a daring documentary

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Arts & culture

Six UC Berkeley alumni named 2025 Pulitzer Prize winners

The four 2025 UC Berkeley University Medal finalists, in a photo illustration with each student headshot in a gold oval against Berkeley-blue background.

In turbulent times, 2025 University Medal finalists excelled through idealism, hard work

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The key to success for this year’s University Medalist? Curiosity and collaboration

Several Berkeley Journalism faculty and alumni honored with 2025 Pulitzer Prizes

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National Academy of Sciences adds eight from UC Berkeley to its ranks

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Six UC Berkeley faculty elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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Pulitzer-winning journalism professor discusses a ‘radical’ Berkeley experiment to develop the next generation of investigative reporters

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Two Berkeley professors receive prestigious Guggenheim fellowships

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Berkeley public policy scholar Amy Lerman wins Carnegie Fellowship

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Seven faculty members named fellows of American Association for the Advancement of Science

Fiona McFarlane holds an award for The Story Prize and smiles

English Professor Fiona McFarlane’s ‘Highway Thirteen’ wins The Story Prize

Headshots of Helen Bateup, Dan Garcia, Kranthi Mandadapu, Mark Sandberg and Sarah Stanley

‘Tremendously effective teachers’: Five UC Berkeley instructors receive Distinguished Teaching Award

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UC Berkeley professor Brian Staskawicz awarded Wolf Prize in Agriculture

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