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Home > Research & faculty > Faculty > Faculty honors and awards

Faculty honors and awards

Berkeley Engineering faculty receive the most prestigious awards and honors bestowed by academic and professional societies, foundations and other civic organizations. Among these are the 77 active and emeriti faculty who hold membership in the National Academy of Engineering.

Sanjay Kumar, RObert RItchie and Peidong Yang

Top scholars named AAAS fellows

December 2, 2020
Engineering professors Sanjay Kumar (bioengineering), Robert Ritchie (mechanical engineering and materials science) and Peidong Yang (chemistry and materials science) are among five Berkeley scholars elected…

New & noteworthy

November 5, 2020
Updates about Berkeley Engineering alumni, faculty and students.

Boubacar Kanté selected among 2020 cohort of Moore Inventor Fellows

September 16, 2020
Associate EECS professor is a pioneer in topological light sources and lasers
Junqiao Wu in the atrium of Hearst Memorial Mining Building

Bakar Prize winner hopes to harness sun’s power

June 22, 2020
Junqiao Wu, professor of material science and engineering, awarded campus’s new $225,000 prize for real-world potential of his thermal-powered material transformations
Royal Society building in London

Materials sciences professor Ramamoorthy Ramesh named to Royal Society

April 29, 2020
Ramesh has created nanosized materials that can power small electrical devices with minimal amounts of energy
Dan Kammen

Dan Kammen elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

April 23, 2020
Professor of energy and resources, public policy and nuclear engineering is one of 9 new Berkeley faculty members

Learn about more faculty honors.

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