Awards and Honors

College of Chemistry awards and honors featured in the news.

Five Berkeley Lab scientists receive DOE early career research awards

February 18, 2026
By Aliyah Kovner & Lauren Biron
Aditi Krishnapriyan, Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, is among the named recipients. Krishnapriyan is being recognized for her project on machine learning methods that scale with dataset size for modeling complex, multi-scale phenomena.
https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2026/02/18/five-berkeley-lab-scientists-receive-doe-e…

Seven UC Berkeley faculty named 2026 Sloan Fellows

February 17, 2026
by UC Berkeley Public Affairs
Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Ashok Ajoy, and Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Karthik Shekhar are among the seven Berkeley faculty honored with the prestigious award honoring exceptional scholars.
https://news.berkeley.edu/2026/02/17/seven-uc-berkeley-faculty-named-2026-sloan-…

Four UC Berkeley faculty elected to National Academy of Engineering

February 12, 2026
UC Berkeley Public Affairs
Professors Nitash Balsara and Jennifer Doudna have been elected to the NAE. Academy membership honors those who have made outstanding contributions to engineering research, practice or education.
https://news.berkeley.edu/2026/02/11/four-uc-berkeley-faculty-elected-to-nationa…

Omar Yaghi awarded 2024 Balzan Prize

September 9, 2024
College of Chemistry Press Release
Professor Omar M. Yaghi was awarded the 2024 Balzan Prize by the International Balzan Prize Foundation.

UC Berkeley’s Omar Yaghi shares 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

October 8, 2025
By Robert Sanders | Berkeley News
Yaghi created a field called reticular chemistry, which involves stitching together molecular building blocks to form porous structures — metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) — with myriad applications.

2026 MTI Parkinson’s Therapeutics Awardees Announced

February 10, 2026
by Julia Schaletzky | MTI Executive Director
UC Berkeley’s Molecular Therapeutics Initiative has selected three research teams for the inaugural MTI Parkinson’s Therapeutics Program, launched last autumn to transform high-impact academic discoveries into therapeutic leads.

8 Teams Win Awards in Final Year of Scialog: Signatures of Life in the Universe

July 6, 2023
Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA) Press Release

Research Corporation for Science Advancement, theHeising-Simons Foundation, the Kavli Foundation and NASA announce awards totaling more than $1 million to eight interdisciplinary teams in the final year of Scialog: Signatures of Life in the Universe, an initiative launched in 2021 to...

Nine young faculty members receive prized Sloan Research Fellowships

February 20, 2024
By Robert Sanders | Berkeley News
Kwabena Bediako among the nine young UC Berkeley faculty members to receive the prized 2024 Sloan Research Fellowships.

'U.S. News' ranks UC Berkeley top public school in the country

September 17, 2023
UC Berkeley Public Affairs
UC Berkeley is once again the No. 1 public school in the country, tied with UCLA, according to the newest American college rankings by U.S. News and World Report.

Guggenheim Fellowship awarded to Christopher Chang

April 10, 2021
UC Berkeley, College of Chemistry Press Release

Chris Chang

The College of Chemistry is pleased to announce that Christopher Chang, Class of 1942 Chair Professor of Chemistry at UC Berkeley, is among this year’s 184 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellows. The prestigious award recognizes scholars with impressive achievements in fields ranging from the...