Awards and Honors

College of Chemistry awards and honors featured in the news.

W.M. Keck Foundation awards Ziyang Zhang, Robert Saxton grant to control how immune cells communicate

July 23, 2024
By Veronica Bartell | College of Chemistry
Ziyang Zhang and Robert Saxton were recently awarded a $1M grant from the W. M. Keck Foundation’s Research Program.

Students from UC Berkeley excel at "Big Ideas"

May 23, 2019
UC Berkeley, College of Chemistry Press Release
Big Ideas is an annual contest aimed at providing funding, support, and encouragement to interdisciplinary teams of students who have “big ideas.”

Chemistry Nobel goes to UC Berkeley Ph.D. Frances Arnold

October 3, 2018
by Robert Sanders, Media relations

Frances Arnold wins Nobel PrizeFrances H. Arnold, the Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry at Caltech, is one of three winners of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

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.

Karthik Shekhar has been named a 2023 McKnight Scholar

June 14, 2023
UC Berkeley, College of Chemistry Press Release
Shekhar has been awarded a scholarship for his project entitled: Evolution of neural diversity and patterning in the visual system.

Groundbreaking collaborative research program will explore common characteristics of Glaucoma, Alzheimer’s

July 14, 2022
College of Chemistry Press Release
Assistant Professor Karthik Shekhar will participate in the Catalyst for a Cure sponsored by Glaucoma Research Foundation.

Maimone wins 2024 Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award For Organic Synthesis

September 7, 2023
Science Direct Press Release
Professor Tom Maimone of UC Berkeley has been named the recipient of the 2024 Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award For Organic Synthesis.

Omar Yaghi wins prestigious Tang Prize for Sustainable Development

June 18, 2024
By Rachel Leven | Berkeley Computing, Data Science, and Society
Yaghi wins in recognition of his groundbreaking efforts founding and advancing the field of reticular chemistry.

Paul Alivisatos awarded 2024 Kavli prize in nanoscience

June 12, 2024
UC Berkeley, College of Chemistry Press Release
UC Berkeley nanoscientist Paul Alivisatos and neuroscientist Doris Tsao are among this year’s Kavli Prize winners.

Aditi Krishnapriyan and colleagues win Scialog Award

June 4, 2024
UC Berkeley, College of Chemistry Press Release
Krishnapriyan along with teammates Grant Rotskoff (Stanford) and Andrew Zahrt (U of Pennsylvania) win Scialog funding.