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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 nearly six dozen active and emeriti faculty who hold membership in the National Academy of Engineering.

Cal EECS professor receives prestigious international award

Electrical engineering and computer science professor Eli Yablonovitch is one of two recipients of the 2012 Harvey Prize, a prestigious international award for his “pioneering discoveries in photonics, optoelectronics, and semiconductors.”

Former dean David Hodges honored by Silicon Valley engineers

David Hodges, professor emeritus of electrical engineering and computer sciences and former dean of the College of Engineering, was one of four eminent technologists inducted into the Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame at this week’s SVEC Engineers Week banquet.

Physicist Art Rosenfeld to receive National Medal of Technology & Innovation

President Barack Obama has named UC Berkeley and LBNL physicist Arthur Rosenfeld one of this year’s 11 recipients of the National Medal of Technology and Innovation. Rosenfeld is often called the “godfather of energy efficiency” because of his pioneering work on reducing the nation’s energy usage.

EECS professors selected as ACM fellows

Three professors from the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences – Alistair Sinclair, Ion Stoica and Katherine Yelick – have been named fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery for contributions to computing that have fundamentally advanced technology

Arsenic water filter recognized with international prize

A team led by Ashok Gadgil, Berkeley Engineering professor and head of LBNL’s environmental energy technologies division, has received the Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water. The prize recognizes his team’s advances in developing an effective and economical way to treat arsenic contamination in groundwater.