Awards and Honors

College of Chemistry awards and honors featured in the news.

Ke Xu awarded 2016 Packard Fellowship

October 18, 2016
Packard Fellowship

Ke XuKe Xu has been awarded a 2016 Packard Fellowship

https://www.packard.org/what-we-fund/science/packard-fellowships-for-science-and…

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 Faisal Prize for Science

February 3, 2015
by Michael Barnes, College of Chemistry Editor

Omar YaghiThe 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 Techology.

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…

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.