Awards and Honors

College of Chemistry awards and honors featured in the news.

Landry and Xu earn Beckman Young Investigator Awards

July 22, 2016
by Michael Barnes, College Editor

Landry, Xu

Markita Landry and Ke Xu, two College of Chemistry assistant professors, have won prestigious awards from the Young Investigator Program of the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation.

Ke Xu named one of C&EN's talented 12

August 22, 2016
by C&EN

Ke XuThis group of skilled young 'operatives' has been covertly using chemistry to safeguard the planet.

http://talented12.cenmag.org/ke-xu/

Leone wins 2017 ACS Zewail Award

August 23, 2016
by Michael Barnes, College Editor

Stephen LeoneChemistry professor Stephen Leone has won the 2017 American Chemical Society's Ahmed Zewail Award in Ultrafast Science and Technology.

Alison Narayan, Sarpong group alumna, named one of C&EN Talented 12

August 22, 2016
by C&EN

Alison NarayanUC Berkeley alumna Alison Narayan wants to turn the enzymes used by cyanobacteria to produce a life-threatening paralysis poison—saxitoxin—into machines that build lifesaving drugs.

http://talented12.cenmag.org/alison-narayan/

Somorjai wins 2016 Richards Medal

November 22, 2016
by Michael Barnes, College of Chemistry Editor

Gabor SomorjaiThe New England Section of the American Chemical Society (NESACS) has awarded Berkeley chemistry professor Gabor Somorjai its prestigious 2016 Richards Medal.

UC Berkeley rated world’s top public and fourth-best overall by U.S. News

October 24, 2017
By Yasmin Anwar, Berkeley Media Relations

UC Berkeley ranked first in chemistry and retains its standing as the world’s No. 1 public and fourth-best university overall in U.S. News & World Report.

http://news.berkeley.edu/2017/10/24/usnewsglobalrankings2017/

Maimone wins 2017 Eli Lilly Grantee Award

October 24, 2017
College of Chemistry News

Thomas MaimoneAssistant Professor Tom Maimone has been named as one of three recipients of the 2017 Eli Lilly Grantee Award.

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…