Awards and Honors

College of Chemistry awards and honors featured in the news.

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…

Raymond wins 2017 Spedding Award

June 22, 2017
College of Chemistry News

Kenneth RaymondChemistry professor Ken Raymond has been awarded the 2017 Spedding Award for his "outstanding contributions to science and technology of the rare earths."

Maimone named 2017 Amgen Young Investigator

June 19, 2017
College of Chemistry News

Thomas Maimone

Assistant professor Tom Maimone was named as one of five 2017 Amgen Young Investigators for his contributions to organic synthesis.

Maimone selected by Rose Hills Innovator Program

May 25, 2017
Berkeley Research

Thomas MaimoneThomas Maimone of the Department of Chemistry has been selected by the Rose Hills Innovator Program for his innovative research entitled: Synthetic Antibiotic Drug Discovery Platforms Inspired by Natural Products.

http://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/rosehillsinnovators/2017-innovators

Cate and Chang elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

April 12, 2017
Sarah Yang, Berkeley Lab

Jamie Cate and Chris ChangThe American Academy of Arts and Sciences announced the election of 228 members, including 188 fellows, five of whom are scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).

http://newscenter.lbl.gov/2017/04/12/five-berkeley-lab-scientists-elected-fellow…

McCloskey selected for NSF Career Award

January 25, 2017
NSF

Bryan McCloskeyBryan McCloskey awarded grant for project to generate fundamental knowledge in the field of electrochemical engineering that is critical to a number of energy conversion and storage technologies.

https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1653430