Awards and Honors

College of Chemistry awards and honors featured in the news.

Omar Yaghi receives the 2017 Albert Einstein World Award of Science prize

November 8, 2017
College of Chemistry News

Omar YaghiProfessor Omar M. Yaghi, the James and Neeltje Tretter Chair and Professor of Chemistry at UC Berkeley was presented with the Albert Einstein World Award at a ceremony today in Amsterdam at Leiden University. This prize is sponsored by the World Cultural Council.

https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/dossiers/world-cultural-council/live-video

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.

Bergman wins Welch Award

May 2, 2014
Chemistry Professor Robert Bergman has been named the 2014 recipient of the Welch Award in Chemical Research for “pioneering work in alkane activation and mechanisms of organometallic reactions.”

Doudna awarded Japan Prize for invention of CRISPR gene editing

February 2, 2017
Robert Sanders, Media Relations

Emmanuelle Charpentier, Jennifer Doudna receiving 2017 Japan PrizeJennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier were awarded the Japan Prize today for their invention of the revolutionary gene-editing technology known as CRISPR-Cas9, which has swept into research labs around the world and is already yielding new therapies for cancer and hereditary diseases.

http://news.berkeley.edu/story_jump/doudna-awarded-japan-prize-for-invention-of-…

Savage wins NIH Director's New Innovator Award

October 2, 2013

David SavageDavid Savage, assistant professor of chemistry, has won an NIH Director's New Innovator Award.

Raymond wins new DOE grant

March 20, 2017
by Michael Barnes, College of Chemistry Editor

Ken Raymond with research group members in 2013Ken Raymond, who, thanks to a new DOE grant and a successful startup, is finding his retirement busier than expected.

Klinman wins Gibbs Medal

April 11, 2017
by Michael Barnes, College of Chemistry Editor

Judith Klinman

Chemistry professor emerita Judith Klinman has received the 2017 Willard Gibbs Medal Award of the Chicago Section of the American Chemical Society.

Paul Alivisatos awarded Dan David Prize for nanoscience research

February 16, 2016
by Robert Sanders

Paul AlivisatosPaul Alivisatos awarded Dan David Prize for nanoscience research

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http://news.berkeley.edu/2016/02/16/paul-alivisatos-awarded-dan-david-prize-for-…

Berkeley innovators named fellows of National Academy of Inventors

December 13, 2016
by Robert Sanders, UC Berkeley Media Relations

NAI logoChemist and nanotechnology pioneer Paul Alivisatos, bioengineer Amy Herr and chemical engineer Enrique Iglesia – were among 175 distinguished academic inventors named fellows in an announcement today by the academy.

http://news.berkeley.edu/2016/12/13/berkeley-innovators-named-fellows-of-nationa…

Yaghi wins Mustafa Scientific Prize

January 5, 2016
by Michael Barnes, College of Chemistry Editor

Omar Yahgi. Photo by Lawrence Berkeley Nat'l Lab - Roy Kaltschmidt, photographerChemistry professor Omar Yaghi has won an inaugural Mustafa Scientific Prize, awarded by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) member states. The award ceremony was held in Tehran, Iran, in December.