Berkeley Professor Wins International Award in Renewable Energy Jay Keasling, a professor in the Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering and the Department of Bioengineering, has won the 2014 Eni Award prize in Renewable Energy for his achievements in the microbial production of hydrocarbon fuels.
Berkeley Students Recognized by NAEd/Spencer Fellowship Four UC Berkeley students were awarded National Academy of Education/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship for their research in the field of education. Each recipient was given a $25,000 cash prize for the 2014-15 academic year and an opportunity to network with members of NAE and other senior scholars during a retreat.
Berkeley Grad Wins Regeneron Prize for Creative Innovation Kelly Clancy, a graduate student in Biophysics, has won the Regeneron Prize for Creative Innovation, a newly established award with only two winners each year. As the reward, Clancy took home a trophy and a $50,000 cash prize. UC Berkeley will also receive an award to support a seminar series.
Seven Students Win Phi Beta Kappa Graduate Fellowships Each year the Phi Beta Kappa Alpha of California Chapter awards fellowships to PBK members who are currently enrolled as doctoral students at UC Berkeley. The seven winners of the 2014 fellowship awards of $5,000 each are:
Graduate Students Win the Tech-to-Market Innovation Challenge Three Berkeley graduate students collaborated to win the Tech-to-Market Innovation Challenge on May 8, 2014.
Women’s Hackathon Honors I-School Students Four Master’s students from the School of Information competed in the one-day Women’s Hackathon at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park in April. The four designed a new Facebook feature that allows users to save and organize especially interesting content from their own timeline or from elsewhere on Facebook. Later they can “relive” that saved content in its social context.
Graduate Student Wins Chancellor Award In early May, Margaret Rhee, a doctoral candidate in Ethnic Studies with a Designated Emphasis in New Media Studies, was awarded the Chancellor’s Award for Public Service in the category of Campus-Community Partnership for her project “From the Center.”
Two Journalism Students Recognized by the Dorothea Lange Fellowship The fellowship committee awarded Jason Jaacks as the 2014 Dorothea Lange Fellowship winner and honored Sean Havey as a second place winner.
Albert Schweitzer Fellowship Winners Announced The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship recently named five UC Berkeley School of Optometry students and one School of Public Health student as this year’s recipients.
AERA Awards Two Berkeley Professors The American Educational Research Association (AERA) -- the largest national professional organization devoted to the scientific study of education -- recently recognized two Berkeley graduate school professors for excellence in education research.
Alumna Wins on “Wheel of Fortune” Haas School of Business alumna, Melody Akhtari, recently appeared on “Wheel of Fortune,” and won. Haas School of Business alumna, Melody Akhtari,…
Education Ph.D. Student Wins the 2014 K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award Jennifer King Chen's dissertation research investigates science instruction designed to support students in making informed choices and its impact on successfully directing their independent inquiry and learning.
Investigative Reporting Program Wins Prestigious DuPont Award The Investigative Reporting Program (IRP) at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism recently won the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award for broadcast and digital news for the documentary “Rape in the Fields.”
Berkeley Professor (and Grad Alumnus) Wins E.O. Wilson Award Integrative Biology professor Tyrone Hayes' research has focused on the threat of pesticides and other pollutants in the decline of amphibian species worldwide.
UC Berkeley Group Wins United Nations Award United Nations SEED grant for sustainable energy development grant will fund a pilot energy project of a solar-based microgrid in an island community in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta.
Alumnus Rebecca Solnit (M.J. ’84) on the Berkeley Wall of Fame A journalist, philosopher, and activist, Solnit refuses to be confined by anything but her own wildly roaming passions.
Meet David Spiciarich, UC Berkeley Chemistry Student and Lindau Fellow Spiciarich was nominated in 2012 to represent the US at the annual meeting of Nobel Laureates in Lindau, Germany, along with a selected group of graduate students.
Graduate Students in Hermanowicz Lab Named Odebrecht Finalists Graduate students in CEE Professor Slav Hermanowicz's Lab and collaborators received second place in 2013 Odebrecht Award for Sustainable Development. The award, which includes cash prizes totaling $65,000, invites university students to search for innovative technologies and methods to promote sustainable and responsible development.
Alumnus Patrick Awuah (M.B.A. ’99) on the Berkeley Wall of Fame Recently, the Berkeley Wall of Fame welcomed UC Berkeley alumnus Patrick Awuah, who received his M.B.A in 1999.
UC Berkeley Student Wins AAUW Career Development Grant Débora Silva is a graduate student in Broadcast Journalism with an emphasis in Television.