Awards and Honors

College of Chemistry awards and honors featured in the news.

Peter Marsden is among five to receive Distinguished Teaching Award

March 26, 2024
College of Chemistry
Peter Marsden, Continuing Lecturer of Chemistry, is one of five faculty to receive this year's Distinguished Teaching Award (DTA).

Berkeley’s Jeffrey Reimer will receive AIChE’s Warren K. Lewis Award for ChE education

October 16, 2023
Gordon Ellis | AIChE press release
Professor Jeffrey Reimer is being recognized for outstanding contributions to chemical engineering education based on accomplishments in classroom teaching, course development, authorship of teaching texts, and departmental chairmanship, as well as excellence in research.

New Brilliance of Berkeley course to feature Jennifer Doudna

March 4, 2024
College of Chemistry
On March 8, Jennifer Doudna will present the topic "The Chemistry of CRISPR: Origins and Opportunities of RNA-guided Genome Editing."

2024 Bakar Prize recipients target skin disease, spintronics and tree bark

March 12, 2024
By Robert Sanders | Berkeley News
Rebecca Abergel and Jay Keasling are among the five UC Berkeley faculty members awarded this year's Bakar Prize.

Kwabena Bediako awarded 2024 Philomathia Prize

March 11, 2024
College of Chemistry
The Philomathia Prize is intended to recognize exceptional early career faculty members at Berkeley great distinction and promise in their academic field.

Markita Landry named 2023 Schmidt Science Polymath

October 26, 2023
UC Berkeley, College of Chemistry Press Release
The 2023 cohort is recognized for having remarkable track records and the desire to explore risky new research ideas across disciplines to accelerate scientific breakthroughs.

Ashok Ajoy named 2023 recipient of Ampere Prize and Anatole Abragam Prize

July 26, 2023
UC Berkeley, College of Chemistry Press Release
Prof. Ajoy was recognized for his substantial contributions to solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance in view of his creativity, intellectual brilliance, productivity and further promise in scientific research.

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.

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.

Jennifer Bergner wins the 2024 AAS Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy

January 11, 2024
By Leigh Moyer | College of Chemistry
Jennifer Bergner has been named the recipient of the Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy for outstanding research and promise for future research by a female researcher within five years after earning her PhD.