Awards and Honors

College of Chemistry awards and honors featured in the news.

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.

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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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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.

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White House to honor Alivisatos, Hu with National Medals of Science, Technology

December 22, 2015
by Robert Sanders

Paul AlivisatosPaul Alivisatos and Chenming Hu have been selected to receive the nation's top honors in science and technology.

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Michael Marletta elected to American Philosophical Society

May 23, 2016
by Robert Sanders, Berkeley Media Relations

Michael MarlettaThe American Philosophical Society, the oldest learned society in the United States, has elected UC Berkeley chemist Michael Marletta as one of 28 new members.

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CoC postdocs win IUPAC awards

June 17, 2013
Michael Barnes
Hailiang Wang, Gabor Somorjai and Qiao "Joe" Zhang.Hailiang Wang and Qiao “Joe” Zhang, both postdocs in the research group of chemistry professor Gabor Somorjai, are among the five winners of the 2013 IUPAC Prize for Young Chemists.

Fleming honored by Japanese chemical society

August 15, 2016
by Michael Barnes, College Editor

Graham Fleming. Photo by Roy Kaltschmidt, Berkeley Lab.Chemistry professor Graham Fleming has been named an Honorable Foreign Member of the Chemical Society of Japan.