Awards

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Awards

Five UC Berkeley faculty named to National Academy of Engineering

Academy membership honors those who have made outstanding contributions to engineering practice, research or education.

Arman Jaffer

Awards

20 UC Berkeley alumni, students and faculty shine on Forbes 30 Under 30 list

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Awards

Journalism professor and alums win awards for ambitious investigative reporting

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Arts & culture

UC Berkeley awarded $2.6 million grant to counter arts censorship

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

Academy Award

Berkeley Journalism faculty and alumni shortlisted for Academy Awards

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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

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UC Berkeley Professor Michael Yartsev named Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator

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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