Awards and Honors

College of Chemistry awards and honors featured in the news.

Markita Landry awarded Vilcek Prize in Biomedical Science

September 7, 2021
UC Berkeley, College of Chemistry Press Release

Markita Landry

Markita del Carpio Landry, an assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at UC Berkeley has been announced as a 2022 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science recipient. The...

Postdoctoral researcher Lilia Xie awarded L'Oreal Fellowship

November 15, 2021
UC Berkeley, College of Chemistry Press Release

Lilia Xie, postdoc, Bediako Lab

The College is pleased to announce that postdoctoral researcher Lilia Xie (Bediako Lab) has been named a 2021 L’Oréal USA For Women...

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...

Jay Keasling receives distinguished scientist fellow award

September 23, 2021
by Aliyah Kovner | Berkeley Lab

Jay Keasling

Jay Keasling, a senior faculty scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), professor at UC Berkeley, and CEO of the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), has been named a Distinguished Scientist Fellow by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science.

He and the other...

Campus professor Richmond Sarpong receives 2021 Edward Leete Award

September 21, 2021
By Mia Scher | Daily Californian

Richmond SarpongRichmond Sarpong from the College of Chemistry received the 2021 Edward Leete Award on Thursday for his research and teachings within the field of organic chemistry.

The Edward Leete Award acknowledges exceptional teaching and research contributions in the field of organic chemistry, according to the American Chemical Society, or ACS, website. The award is...

Team wins competition to make space sugar in NASA competition

August 27, 2021
By Robert Sanders | UC Berkeley media relations

chemistry professor Peidong Yang, former postdoc Michael Ross, former graduate student Yifan Li and graduate student Stefano Cestellos-Blanco.

Team SSwEET was one of three finalists in NASA’s CO2 Conversion Challenge. The UC Berkeley team will receive...

Kwabena Bediako named Moore Fellow

August 31, 2021
UC Berkeley, College of Chemistry Press Release

Kwabena Bediako
The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has named Kwabena Bediako, The Cupola Era Professor in the College of Chemistry, a 2021 Fellow in Materials Synthesis.

Prof. Bediako will receive a grant for $1.2 million as...

Enrique Iglesia appointed to the Royal Academy of Sciences

July 16, 2021
UC Berkeley, College of Chemistry Press Release

Enrique Iglesia

The College of Chemistry is pleased to announce that Enrique Iglesia, Theodore Vermeulen Professor in Chemical Engineering, and been appointed as a Foreign Academic member of the Real Academia de Ciencias of Spain (Academy), during a meeting in Plenary...

Omar Yaghi receives the Gerhard Ertl Lecture Award

July 13, 2021
UC Berkeley, College of Chemistry Press Release

Omar Yaghi

The 14th Gerhard Ertl Lecture Award goes to Omar M. Yaghi, Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, and elected member of the US National Academy of Sciences. The Award Committee, comprised of jurors Prof. Dr. Joachim Sauer (...

Michael Zuerch receives Society of Hellman Fellows award

June 20, 2021
UC Berkeley, College of Chemistry Press Release

example of extreme photonics in the lab

Extreme photonics and nonlinear optics in the lab. Photo courtesy Michael Zuerch

The College of Chemistry is pleased to announce that Assistant Professor of Chemistry Michael Zuerch has received an award in support of his research from the...