Awards and Honors

College of Chemistry awards and honors featured in the news.

Professor Dean Toste recipient of prestigious Humboldt Research Award

October 18, 2017
College of Chemistry News

Dean Toste

Dean Toste, Professor of Chemistry and a Faculty Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, has been awarded the Humboldt Research Award. Professor Toste was nominated for this award by Prof. Dr. Dirk Trauner of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany.

Berkeley Lab Software Helps 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics

October 9, 2017
Jon Bashor, Berkeley Lab

Blackhole softwareBehind the headlines was the work of two Berkeley Lab groups specializing in developing tools and applications for moving and managing data and allowing scientists around the world to access and analyze the information.

http://newscenter.lbl.gov/2017/10/03/berkeley-lab-tools-helped-ligo-nobel-physic…

Professor Omar M. Yaghi wins 2017 Japan Society of Coordination Chemistry International Award

September 12, 2017
College of Chemistry Press Release

Omar Yaghi with his research group

UC Berkeley’s College of Chemistry Professor Omar M. Yaghi has been selected to receive the 2017 Japan Society of Coordination Chemistry (JSCC) International Award.

Yaghi wins Royal Society of Chemistry award

May 10, 2017
by Michael Barnes, College of Chemistry Editor

Omar Yaghi with postdocs

Yaghi awarded Turkish Academy of Sciences Prize

November 23, 2016
by Michael Barnes, College of Chemistry Editor

Omar YaghiThe Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA) has awarded one of three 2016 Academy Prizes to Berkeley chemistry professor Omar Yaghi.

Yaghi wins World Cultural Council award

May 30, 2017
by Michael Barnes, College of Chemistry Editor

Omar Yaghi with the Yaghi Research Group Omar Yaghi, the James and Neeltje Tretter Professor in Chemistry, has been selected as the winner of the 2017 Albert Einstein World Award of Science from the World Cultural Council.

Doudna awarded NHGRI grant for CRISPR-based research

August 22, 2017
GenomeWeb

Jennifer DoudnaJennifer Doudna and Feng Zhang have received separate grants from the National Human Genome Research Institute for CRISPR technology-based projects they both say have the potential to advance the tool's usefulness for human health purposes.

The University of California, Berkeley's Doudna will receive $2.1 million to set up and run the Center for Genome Editing and Recording (CGER)....

https://www.genomeweb.com/research-funding/jennifer-doudna-feng-zhang-awarded-nh…

Evan Miller Research Group graduate student Gloria Ortiz wins HHMI Fellowship Award

August 16, 2017
HHMI Press Release

Gloria OrtizGloria Ortiz of the Evan Miller Research Group has is one of 39 new Gilliam fellows selected by The Howard Hughes Medical Institute. The award is given to exceptional doctoral students who have the potential to be leaders in their fields and the desire to advance diversity and...

http://www.hhmi.org/news/hhmi-awards-39-gilliam-fellowships-support-diversity-sc…

Young professors receive Early Career Awards from DOE

August 10, 2017
by Robert Sanders, Berkeley Media relations

Eric NeuscammanLin Lin, an assistant professor of mathematics, and Eric Neuscamman, an assistant professor of chemistry, have received 2017 Early Career Research Program awards from the Department of Energy to further their work on new...

http://news.berkeley.edu/story_jump/young-math-professor-receives-early-career-a…

Mariner infrared spectrometer designated a chemical landmark

June 26, 2017
By Linda Wang

George Pimentel teaching at UC BerkeleyGroundbreaking research conducted in the 1960s that led to the development of an infrared spectrometer that flew aboard the Mariner 6 and 7 spacecraft was designated a National Historic Chemical Landmark during a ceremony on May 15 at the University of California, Berkeley....

http://cen.acs.org/articles/95/i26/Mariner-infrared-spectrometer-designated-chem…