Awards and Honors

College of Chemistry awards and honors featured in the news.

Karthik Shekhar receives Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholars award

May 4, 2026
By Veronica Bartell | College of Chemistry
Faculty who receive this award are within the first five years of their academic careers, have each created an outstanding independent body of scholarship, and are deeply committed to education.

The probability of greatness (and how to engineer it)

April 16, 2026
By Veronica Bartell | College of Chemistry
The CBE Department has an exceptionally high concentration of NAE members (42.9%), one of the highest densities for any single department in the world.

Markita Landry awarded Bakar Prize for nanotechnolgy innovations

February 23, 2023
UC Berkeley, College of Chemistry Press Release
Associate Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Markita Landry is one of four UC Berkeley faculty members to be awarded the 2023 Bakar Prize.

Enrique Iglesia is the recipient of the 2019 Michel Boudart Award for the Advancement of Catalysis

January 15, 2019
North American Catalyst Society Press Release
The award is presented jointly by the North American Catalysis Society (NACS) and the European Federation of Catalysis Societies (EFCATS).

Eleven UC Berkeley faculty members elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

March 26, 2026
By Robert Sanders | Berkeley News
Felix Raoul Fischer and Richmond Sarpong are among eleven UC Berkeley faculty members that have been elected 2025 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Kristie A. Boering elected AAAS fellow

January 26, 2022
UC Berkeley, College of Chemistry Press Release

Kristie A. Boering

Kristie A. Boering (Photo Michael Barnes)

The College of Chemistry is delighted to announce that Kristie A. Boering (professor of chemistry and of earth and planetary science) has been elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), one of the world’s largest...

T. Don Tilley named inaugural PMP Tech Chancellor's Chair in Chemistry

November 4, 2020
UC Berkeley, College of Chemistry Press Release

T. Don TilleyThanks to a generous donation from Rubber and Joy Chen of PMP Tech, an international company based in Taiwan, Professor of Chemistry and Faculty Senior Scientist at Berkeley Lab, T. Don Tilley has been announced as the inaugural PMP Tech Chancellor’s Chair in Chemistry.

PMP Tech was founded in 1978 in Taiwan...

Alexis Shusterman awarded 2026 Distinguished Teaching Award

March 11, 2026
The campus’ highest honor for teaching excellence has been awarded to chemistry instructor Alexis Shusterman.

Richmond Sarpong awarded the A.R. Katritzky Junior Award in Heterocyclic Chemistry

May 22, 2019
UC Berkeley, College of Chemistry press release
Richmond Sarpong, Professor of Chemistry and Executive Associate Dean at the College of Chemistry has been awarded the 2019 A. R. Katritzky Junior Award in Heterocyclic Chemistry.

Tom Maimone awarded the A.R. Katritzky Junior Award in Heterocyclic Chemistry

March 9, 2026
UC Berkeley, College of Chemistry press release
Professor Maimone will be given the award at the 30th International Society of Heterocyclic Chemistry Congress this year in São Carlos, Brazil.