Yartsev wins Neuroscience Young Investigator Award
11/14/22 — Bioengineering professor Michael Yartsev named 2022 Young Investigator by the Society for Neuroscience in recognition of his work on the neural complexity of free-flying bats
Honors & awards
Berkeley professor Michael Jordan wins inaugural World Laureates Association Prize
09/29/22 — The WLA Prize in Computer Science or Mathematics includes a $1.4 million (RMB 10 million) award
Seven honored as Siebel Scholars
09/22/22 — Seven Berkeley engineering students have been named to the Siebel Scholars Foundation’s class of 2023
Berkeley’s Ting Xu wins Science Breakthrough of the Year award from Falling Walls Foundation
09/16/22 — Xu's work on plastic degradation wins recognition in the Engineering and Technology category
Helping transfer students succeed in engineering
08/15/22 — T-PREP program wins Inspiring Programs in STEM Award for its work to ease the challenging transition from community college to major research university
Researchers win $5M to launch center that advances decentralization technology
08/04/22 — CDSS: Algorand Foundation funding to help democratize access to data and ensure that data remains secure
Kaichen Dong named one of 35 Innovators Under 35
06/30/22 — Kaichen Dong, a Berkeley postdoc in materials science and engineering, has been named among MIT Technology Review’s 2022 35 Innovators Under 35 contest
UC Berkeley’s Rediet Abebe named 2022 Carnegie Fellow
04/26/22 — Honor includes $200,000 stipend to support the assistant professor's examination of evidentiary statistical software used in the criminal legal system
EECS PhD student named 2022 Soros fellow
04/14/22 — Dave Epstein joins other immigrants and children of immigrants chosen for “their potential to make significant contributions to the United States.”
Masayoshi Tomizuka named to National Academy of Engineering
02/09/22 — Mechanical engineering professor among 76 academy members at Berkeley Engineering
Seven Berkeley engineers honored as 2022 Siebel Scholars
09/23/21 — They are among 82 exceptional students from the world’s leading graduate schools of business, computer science, and bioengineering.
Engineering student receives rare Generation Change Scholarship
09/21/21 Berkeley News — Sariel Sandoval, a Native American from Montana, gets award for domestic, non-resident students who are game changers, trailblazers, solution seekers and revolutionaries.
NSF awards $12.75M to renew natural hazards simulation center
09/20/21 — The four-year grant to the SimCenter supports research to understand and quantify the effects of natural hazards on buildings, lifelines and communities.
Award fuels female STEM leaders
07/02/21 Johnson & Johnson — Mechanical engineering assistant professor Hannah Stuart is one of six 2021 Johnson & Johnson WiSTEM2D scholars
Top graduating senior a tech whiz and musician
05/10/21 — With full-ride fellowship offers from Stanford and MIT, electrical engineer Leyla Kabuli is sticking with Berkeley.
Berkeley engineers win Extraordinary Teaching in Extraordinary Times Awards
04/27/21 — Nine engineering teaching groups were honored for innovations in remote instruction
Hayley Iben: Science and math meet artistic expression
04/13/21 — Pixar director of engineering and BE alumna Hayley Iben has won a Scientific and Technical Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Berkeley-led consortium awarded $25M to advance nuclear security
02/16/21 — This is the consortium's third five-year, $25 million grant, allowing it to continue its mission of educating nuclear scientists and advancing nuclear technologies.
Ambidextrous wins ‘Good Robot’ award for overall excellence
12/15/20 Silicon Valley Robotics — Berkeley-founded startup honored for its versatile e-commerce robots with an AI-enhanced operating system
Patents for Humanity honors Berkeley-designed infant warmer
11/05/20 — An infant-warming device developed by civil and environmental engineering professor Ashok Gadgil and a Berkeley Lab colleague received an honorable mention