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'Trail of Humanity,' four other news stories honored for excellence Published Jul 10, 2015 10:47 am UC Berkeley won a 2015 Silver Award for excellence in news writing from the international Council for the Advancement and Support of Education, for five pieces produced by the news team in the Office of Communications and Public Affairs.Serpell wins Caine Prize and shares the wealth Published Jul 08, 2015 03:36 pm Berkeley English professor Namwali Serpell graciously accepted a coveted award for African authors and shared the prize money with her fellow nominees, saying writing isn't a competitive sport.Institute of Physics awards Newton Medal to Eli Yablonovitch Published Jul 01, 2015 08:30 am The United Kingdom's Institute of Physics has awarded its prestigious Isaac Newton Medal to Eli Yablonovitch, professor at UC Berkeley's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and a pioneer in the field of optoelectronics and nanophotonics.Chemist Christopher Chang receives $250,000 Blavatnik Award Published Jun 30, 2015 10:14 am Christopher Chang, the Class of 1942 Chair in the College of Chemistry, was one of three University of California recipients of the 2015 Blavatnik Award, given yearly to exceptional young scientists and engineers. Chang was honored for his discoveries in chemistry that span both neuroscience and energy science and will receive an unrestricted prize of $250,000.Doudna and Charpentier share $500,000 Gruber Genetics Prize Published Jun 22, 2015 02:48 pm UC Berkeley biochemist Jennifer Doudna and microbiologist Emmanuelle Charpentier of the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research in Germany and of Umeå University in Sweden have received the 2015 Gruber Genetics Prize for their invention of a gene-editing technology known as CRISPR/Cas9, which has revolutionized the field of molecular genetics.Three campus researchers named 2015 Pew scholars Published Jun 11, 2015 12:39 pm Three UC Berkeley early-career researchers — Polina Lishko, Ke Xu and Juan-Pablo Castillo — have been selected as this year's Pew scholars, for those showing outstanding promise in science relevant to the advancement of human healthBerkeley brings home the gold, twice, for campus communications Published Jun 03, 2015 04:33 pm UC Berkeley has won two Grand Gold Awards -- in the photography and interdisciplinary advancement projects categories -- from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) for its efforts to communicate campus news to the public, media, alumni, parents and friends of the campus.Dorothea Lange fellow plans to document Cairo recyclers Published May 08, 2015 02:55 pm Journalism grad student Sara Lafleur-Vetter, the 2015 Dorothea Lange Fellow, plans to use her $4,000 fellowship to document the lives of members of a Coptic Christian community that has collected and recycled Cairo's trash for seven decades.Outstanding staff honored Thursday Published May 06, 2015 04:40 pm Fifteen individual UC Berkeley staff members and the members of three staff teams received the 2015 Chancellor's Outstanding Staff Award in a ceremony on Thursday, May 7. The annual event was livestreamed, and video is available for those who missed it.Young physics professor receives DOE early career grant Published May 06, 2015 01:51 pm James Analytis, an assistant professor of physics, has been awarded one of the Department of Energy's coveted Early Career Research Program grants to pursue work on exotic behavior in metals.National Humanities Center awards fellowship to English prof Published Apr 28, 2015 05:00 pm The National Humanities Center has awarded a fellowship to UC Berkeley English professor Colleen Lye. She is the 23rd member of the Berkeley faculty to be selected as a fellow by the center.Guggenheim fellowships awarded to 3 UC Berkeley faculty Published Apr 13, 2015 03:48 pm Berkeley's three new Guggenheim fellows are among 175 U.S. and Canadian scholars, scientists and artists who have shown "prior achievement and exceptional promise." They were chosen from among more than 3,100 applicants.Former UC Berkeley professor wins $1 million Turing Award Published Mar 25, 2015 04:19 pm Michael Stonebraker, an MIT researcher and former UC Berkeley professor, has won the Association for Computing Machinery's A.M. Turing Award, considered the most prestigious honor in the field of computing. Stonebraker revolutionized the field of database management systems in his nearly three decades as a faculty member at UC Berkeley's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences. | ||
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