Awards and Honors

College of Chemistry awards and honors featured in the news.

Berkeley team wins 2017 National ChemE Jeopardy Championship

November 3, 2017
College of Chemistry News

Meghna Rajendran, Sanya Sehgal, Rajashree Bhattavharya, Mcgregor Stadmiller, and Richard LinPhoto left to right: Meghna Rajendran, Sanya Sehgal, Rajashree Bhattavharya, Mcgregor Stadmiller, and Richard Lin. Image courtesy of AIChE

The UC Berkeley ChemE squad has won the 2017 National Chemical Engineering Jeopardy Championship at the AIChE Student Conference. This version of the Jeopardy Game utilizes questions from chemical engineering undergraduate coursework to test the knowledge of college teams from across the country.

Maimone wins 2017 National Fresenius Award

August 24, 2017
College of Chemistry Press Release

Thomas MaimoneAssistant Professor of Chemistry Thomas Maimone has been awarded the 2017 National Fresenius Award sponsored by Phi Lambda Upsilon, the National Chemistry Honor Society.

John Hartwig awarded 2018 Tetrahedron Prize for Creativity in Organic Chemistry

September 27, 2018
Professor Hartwig, is the youngest person to receive the prize since Stuart Schreiber, and the only faculty member from UC Berkeley to have won.

Karthik Shekhar awarded 2023 teaching awards

June 1, 2023
UC Berkeley, College of Chemistry Press Release
Shekhar has been awarded the 2023 Donald Sterling Noyce Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching along with the Department of Chemical Engineering Teaching Award.

The College of Chemistry celebrates Jennifer Doudna

November 12, 2020
UC Berkeley, College of Chemistry Press Release
An informal discussion with Nobel Laureate, and College faculty member, Jennifer Doudna.

Yaghi wins Faisal Prize for Science

February 3, 2015
by Michael Barnes, College of Chemistry Editor
The 2015 King Faisal International Prize for Science has been awarded to Berkeley chemistry professor Omar Yaghi. He shares the award with Michael Grätzel of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.

Professor Ting Xu honored at Falling Walls Science Summit

November 14, 2022
UC Berkeley, College of Chemistry Press Release
Prof. Xu discussed her research in a talk entitled: 'Breaking the Wall to Programmable Plastic Degradation through Enzymes'.

The scientist's journey to the Nobel Prize

October 19, 2021
By Marge d’Wylde | College of Chemistry

A man sitting in an office with computer in the background.

David MacMillan at his Princeton University office. (Photo: Denise Applewhite/Princeton University, Via Reuters.)

The Nobel Prize is one of the most prestigious awards for the sciences in the world. Other notable international awards include the National Medal of Science (United States), the Wolf Prize (Israel), The Royal (Queen’s) Medal (...

Evan Miller awarded 2021 Donald S. Noyce Undergraduate Teaching Prize

April 20, 2021
UC Berkeley, College of Chemistry Press Release
The committee said of Prof. Miller, "Selections from the student evaluations combined with the student letters make a strong case for the effectiveness of Prof. Miller as a communicator and someone who really cares about his students achieving mastery of the material."

Omar Yaghi awarded the inaugural VinFuture Special Prize

January 24, 2022
VinFuture Prize Press Release

Omar Yaghi at the VinFuture award ceremony - Vietnam

The first Special Prize, dedicated to “Innovators with Outstanding Achievements in Emerging Fields”, is awarded to Professor Omar Yaghi (USA) for his work on discovering metal-organic frameworks. — Photo courtesy VinFuture Prize

The first VinFuture Special Prize for Innovators with Outstanding Achievements for Emerging Fields was awarded to...