Awards and Honors

College of Chemistry awards and honors featured in the news.

David Schaffer named to NAE

February 12, 2025
By Veronica Bartell | College of Chemistry
David Schaffer inducted by prestigious organization for world-changing research.

Omar M. Yaghi to receive 2025 Von Hippel Award, the Materials Research Society’s highest honor

September 30, 2025
Press Release courtesy of the Materials Research Society (MRS)
Yaghi is being honored for pioneering the design and synthesis of metal-organic frameworks and covalent organic frameworks, enabling advances in gas storage, carbon capture, and water harvesting from air.

The first women chemists at Cal

February 5, 2018
by Marge d'Wylde | College of Chemistry
The College salutes the pioneer women chemistry faculty at Cal. Both as scientists, and as early faculty members at the University, they helped to pave the way for the next generations of women faculty and students.

Clayton Radke Awarded Ruben Medal

August 30, 2019
By Eric Craypo | UC Berkeley, School of Optometry
Radke has been awarded the Ruben Medal by the International Society for Contact Lens Research.

Jennifer Doudna wins Priestley Medal

August 6, 2025
By Veronica Bartell | College of Chemistry
The Priestley Medal is the highest honor given out by the American Chemical Society (ACS), annually recognizing distinguished service to chemistry.

Omar Yaghi elected to the National Academy of Sciences

April 30, 2019
UC Berkeley, College of Chemistry Press Release
Omar Yaghi, Neeltje Tretter Chair Professor of Chemistry, was announced today as one of a 100 new members, and 25 foreign members, of the National Academy of Sciences.

Ashok Ajoy named 2025 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar

May 15, 2025
College of Chemistry Press Release
Assistant Professor of Chemistry Ashok Ajoy has been named a 2025 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar.

Omar Yaghi awarded the German Chemical Society gold medal

March 4, 2020
College of Chemistry Press Release

Omar Yaghi

Omar Yaghi has been awrded the the 2020 August-Wilhelm-von-Hofmann-Denkmünze. The German Chemical Society bi-annually presents this prestigious award to an outstanding national and international chemists in a wide range of fields. Among the oldest chemistry awards, the August-Wilhelm-von-Hofmann-Denkmünze gold medal was first awarded in 1903. The award is intended to recognize outstanding achievements in chemistry; in particular by scientists working outside of Germany.

Naomi Ginsberg elected a fellow of the American Physical Society

October 12, 2021
College of Chemistry | Press Release

Naomi Ginsberg

The College of Chemistry is pleased to announce that the American Physical Society (APS) has elected Naomi Ginsberg, Associate Professor of Chemistry and Physics, as a Fellow for 2021. Prof. Ginsberg has been elected for the "innovative development of spatiotemporally resolved imaging and spectroscopy methods...

Congratulations to Jeffrey Long and Daniel Neumark on receiving 2019 ACS awards

January 25, 2019
Linda Wang | C&E News

Jeffrey Long and Daniel NeumarkUC Berkeley College of Chemistry professors Jeffrey Long and Daniel Neumark have been announced as 2019 American Chemical Society (ACS) awardees for their pioneering chemical research. They will be honored at a ceremony at the spring ACS national meeting in Orlando, Florida, March 31–April 4, 2019.