Alessandro Chiesa among five UC Berkeley faculty named Sloan Research Fellows
The two-year fellowships are one of the most competitive and prestigious awards available to early career researchers
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 76 active and emeriti faculty who hold membership in the National Academy of Engineering.
Cryptography pioneer Shafi Goldwasser receives the Women in Science Award
The L’Oréal-UNESCO honor for Goldwasser, director of the Simons Institute, comes on the International Day for Women & Girls in Science
David Patterson receives prestigious Frontiers in Knowledge award
The UC Berkeley Turing laureate shares the prize, which includes 400,000 euros, with Stanford’s John Hennessy for turning computer architecture into a science and designing the processors that power today’s devices.
Professors receive Berkeley Faculty Service Award
Mechanical engineering’s Alice Agogino, Oliver O’Reilly honored by Academic Senate for “outstanding and dedicated service to the campus”
Top scholars named AAAS fellows
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 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
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