Awards Won by L&S Faculty

2018

• Bin Yu received the Elizabeth L. Scott Award from the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies.
• Polina Lishenko and David Schaffer were selected as Bakar Fellows.
• Inez Fung was awarded the Carl Gustaf Rossby Research Medal by the American Meteorological Society.
• Jeremy Thorner received the Herbert Tabor Research Award by the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
• Jennifer Doudna was awarded the Kavli Prize in Nanoscience by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and the Kavli Foundation.
• Jennifer Doudna received the Fiat Lux Faculty Award.
• Gillian Hart was awarded the Vega Medal by the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography.
• Stephanie Jones-Rogers was awarded the College of Letters & Science Distinguished Teaching Award.
• Yang Dan, Ehud Isacoff, and Michael Manga were selected as fellows of the National Academy of Sciences.
• Shari Huhndorf, Nicolas Tackett, Robert Levenson, and Eliot Quataert were elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
• Bruce Buffett, Hilary Hoynes, and Fei Xu, were awarded John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowships.
• Dylan Penningroth, Nicolas Tackett, and Stacey Van Vleet, were awarded fellowships by the American Council of Learned Societies.
• Raphael Bousso and Antonio Montalban were awarded Simons Foundation Fellowships in Theoretical Physics.
• Mary Kelsey and Rudy Mendoza-Denton received Berkeley's Distinguished Teaching Award.
• Supreet Kaur, Danny Yagan, and Norman Yao were named Sloan Research Fellows by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
• Robert Powell received the Berkeley Faculty Service Award.
• Jennifer Doudna received the NAS Award in Chemical Sciences.
• Margaret Conkley received the Thomas J. Huxley Memorial Medal from the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.

2017

• Daniel Portnoy was elected to the National Academy of Inventors.
• Ronald Cohen, Mark D'Esposito, Marla Feller, Allison Gopnik, Robert Knight, and Paul Renne were chosen as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
• Nicholas Jewell was elected to the National Academy of Medicine.
• Jacob Corn and Hernan Garciareceived New Innovator Awards from the National Institutes of Health.
• Wen-Hsin Yeh was awarded a fellowship by Stanford's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.
• Robert Goldman won the World Sanskrit Award, presented by the Indian Council on Cultural Relations.
• Brian DeLay, Samera Esmeir, and Tania Lombrozo were chosen as fellows of the American Council of Learned Societies.
• Ian Duncan, Khalid Kadir, Michael Manga, and Carlos Noreña won Distinguished Teaching Awards.
• Jennifer Doudna won the Japan Prize.
• Jill Banfield won a Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator Award.
• Lin Lin received the Early Career Research Program award from the Department of Energy.
• Kaoru Saijo was named a Pew Scholar. 
• Marvin Cohen received the Franklin Medal.
• Ren Ng, Pierre Simon, Reed Walker, Daniel Weisz, and Michael Yartsev were awarded Sloan Research Fellowships.
• Richard Taruskin won the Kyoto Prize. 
• Wendy Brown, Cindy Cox, Tom Griffiths, Stefan-Ludwig Hoffman, Ulrike Malmendier, and Samuel Otter won the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship.

2016

• Wendy Brown and Georgina Kleege won Distinguished Teaching Awards.
• Randy Schekman received the Fiat Lux Faculty Award.
• Andrew E. Barshay, Robert Full, Robert M. Glaeser, Barbara V. Jacak, Eva Nogales, and Paul Pierson were elected members to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
• Arthur Rosenfeld won the Tang Prize.
• Dirk Hockemeyer was selected as a Pew-Stewart Scholar for Cancer Research.
• Elçin Ünal and Stephen Brohawn received prestigious NIH awards.
• George W. Breslauer won the Clark Kerr Award.
• Gibor Basri won the Sagan Prize.
• Gloria Brar and Michael Yartsev were named Pew Scholars. 
• H. Mack Horton and Edmund Campion received John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowships. 
• Hernan Garcia was named a Searle Scholar.
• Ian Agol, Steven Evans, Robert Glaeser, Susan Marqusee, Krishna Niyogi, and Peidong Yang were elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
• Jennifer Doudna was elected as a foreign member of the Royal Society, received Canada's Gairdner Award, and won the Tang Prize.
• Jerry Craddock and Charles Faulhaber were elected as foreign corresponding members of the Royal Spanish Academy.
  
• John Matsui won the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM).
• Mary Gaillard was elected as a fellow to the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
• Michael Rape received the Blavatnik Award for young scientists.
• Mu-ming Poo was awarded the Gruber Neuroscience Prize.
• Robert Birgeneau won the National Science Board’s Vannevar Bush Award.
  
• Seth Holmes won the American Anthropological Association award.
• Stephanie Jones-Rogers and Benjamin Porter won National Endowment for the Humanities awards.
• Stephen Brohawn, Evan Miller, and Michael Yartsev were awarded Klingenstein-Simons Fellowships.
• Surjeet Rajendran won the $100,000 New Horizons Prize.
• Thomas Laqueur won the Cundill Prize for The Work of the Dead.

2015

• Alexei Yurchak received the Prosvetitel (Enlightener) Prize.
• Carlos Bustamante, John Clarke, Alexei Filippenko, and John MacFarlane were elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
• Catherine Choy was named a Fulbright fellow.
• Holger Müller was named a Bakar fellow.
• John Kuriyan was elected to Foreign Membership in the Royal Society.
• Ian Agol and a team of neutrino physicists led by UC Berkeley and Berkeley Lab physicist Kam-Biu Luk were awarded Breakthrough prizes.
• James Analytis was named a Sloan fellow.
• Jennifer Doudna won the L'Oréal-UNESCO "For Women in Science" award and shared the $500,000 Gruber Genetics Prize.
• Kathleen Donegan, Daniel Feldman, Ulrike Malmendier, Francine Masiello and Lev Michael won Distinguished Teaching Awards.
• Polina Lishko was named a Pew Scholar.
• Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton won the Chancellor’s Award.

2014

• David Collier won the Johan Skytte Prize in political science.
• Eugene Chiang, Munis Faruqui and Ron Hassner won Distinguished Teaching Awards.
• George Breslauer, Nicholas Dirks, Edward Frenkel, Inez Fung, Daniel Tătaru, and Alex Zettl were elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
• Jacob Dalton, Shannon Jackson, Kent Lightfoot, Michael Nylan, Stephanie Syjuco, and Ashvin Vishwanath were awarded John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowships.
• Jennifer Doudna and two teams of cosmologists led by Saul Perlmutter won the Breakthrough Prize.
• Michael I. Jordan won the $100,000 Rumelhart Prize for cognitive science.
• Robert Hass won the Wallace Stevens Award.

2013

• Ahmet Yildiz and Daniel Kasen won the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers.
• Alison Gopnik, Frances Hellman, Susan Marqusee, David A. Miller, Hitoshi Murayama, Ann Swidler, and Bin Yu were named members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
• Daniel Kahneman was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
• Daniel Tătaru was named a Simons Investigator.
• George Smoot was elected to the National Academy of Inventors.
• James Berger, Daniel Portnoy, and James Sethian were elected as members to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS).
• Kam-Biu Luk won the Panofsky Prize.
• Maxine Hong Kingston won the National Medal of Arts.
• Michael Rape won the Vilcek Prize.
• Nancy Scheper-Hughes won the American Anthropological Association's first ever Anthropology in Public Policy Award.
• Nicole King, Michael Rape, and Russell Vance were named Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigators.
• Randy Schekman won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, and was elected as a foreign member of the Royal Society.
• Robert Birgeneau won the Centro Legal de La Raza’s “Visionary Leadership Award” and the Karl Taylor Compton Medal.
  
• Robert Hass won the PEN essay award.
• Robert Knight won the Jacob K. Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award.
• Robert Levenson won the Association for Psychological Science’s William James Fellow Award. 
• Terry Speed won the Prime Minister’s Prize for Science.
• Ula Taylor, Timothy Hampton, Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby, and Rauri Bowie won Distinguished Teaching Awards.

2012

• Allan Sly named a Sloan Research Fellow.
• Bernard Sadoulet and James M. Berger were elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
• Carlos Bustamante won the Raymond and Beverly Sackler International Prize in biophysics.
• Charles Townes won the first Golden Goose Award.
• Crawford H. Greenewalt, Jr. received the Archaeological Institute of America’s (AIA) Bandelier Award for Public Service to Archaeology.
• James Sethian and Robert Saye won the Cozzarelli Prize.
• Joanna Picciotto, Edward Miguel, Sally Goldman, and Debarati Sanyal won Distinguished Teaching Awards.
• Judith Butler won the Adorno Prize(link is external).
• Kunxin Luo was named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
• Susan Marqusee won the William C. Rose Award.
• Thomas Brady was named the Emeritus Professor of the Year by the UC Berkeley Emeriti Association (UCBEA).
• Wen-hsin Yeh received a Humboldt Research Award.

2011

• Alexandre Chorin and James A. Sethian won the Lagrange Prize.
• Claude S. Fischer and Michael I. Jordan were elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
• David Collier was named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
• Feng Wang won the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers.
• James Berger received the National Academy of Sciences Award in Molecular Biology and was honored by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS).
  
• James Demmel was elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS).
• John Matsui won the “Champion of Health Professions Diversity” award bestowed by The California Wellness Foundation.
• Marc Davis shared the Cosmology Prize of The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation.
• Martin White was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.
• Namwali Serpell won the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award.
• Patrick Kirch won the Gregory Medal.
• Paula Fass and Svetlana Leontief Alpers were elected to the American Philosophical Society (APS).
• Per-Olof Persson and David F. Savage were awarded Sloan Research Fellowships.
• Robert Full, Leslea Hlusko, Chung-Pei Ma, John Ohala, and Martin White were named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
• Robin Einhorn and Kent Puckett won Distinguished Teaching Awards.
• Saul Perlmutter won the Nobel Prize in physics and the Einstein Medal.

2010

• Anne-Lise François's book Open Secrets: The Literature of Uncounted Experience won the René Wellek Prize.
• David Aldous was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
• David Collier and Patricia Claire Zambryski were named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
• Diana Bautista received NHI's New Innovator Award.
• Donald C. Rio received a EUREKA award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences.
• Emmanuel Saez won the MacArthur "genius" Fellowship awarded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
• Holger Müller, Adam Szeidl, Thomas L. Griffiths, and Ulrike M. Malmendier received $50,000 Sloan Research Fellowships.
• Jennifer Doudna was elected to the Institute of Medicine. 
• Jillian Banfield was awarded the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Earth and Environmental Science and the L'Oréal-UNESCO "For Women in Science" award.
• Line Mikkelsen won a Distinguished Teacher Award.
• Maciej Rafal Zworski, Richard A. Muller, David Gil Drubin, Richard H. Harland, Emmanuel Saez, Ruth Berins Collier, Neil Fligstein, and Carla Hesse were elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

2009

• Ahmet Yildiz, Shachar Kariv and Hartmut Häffner won Sloan Fellowships.
• Alex Filippenko, Robert Fischer, Sarah Hake, Hiroshi Nikaido, and Mu-ming Poo were elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS).
• Anthony A. Long, Robert Tjian, and James W. Valentine were elected to the American Philosophical Society.
• Emmanuel Saez won the John Bates Clark Medal.
• George Smoot won the Oersted Medal.
• John Campbell and Lyn Hejinian received John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowships.
• Lin He won the MacArthur "genius" Fellowship.
• Mitchell Breitwieser and Andrew Stewart won Distinguished Teacher Awards.
• Oliver E. Williamson won the Nobel Prize in economics.
• Paul Richards shared the $1 million Dan David Prize.
• W. Zacheus Cande, Donald J. DePaolo and Yuen-Ron Shen were named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). 

2008

• Charles Henry received the Chancellor’s Award.
• Francesca Rochberg and Randy Schekman were elected to the American Philosophical Society.
• John Kuriyan, Jasper Rine, James Powell, and Yuri Slezkine were elected to the American Academy of Arts & Science.
• Joseph Duggan was awarded the first Dickson Emeriti Professorship. 
• Judith Butler won the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award.
• Karl Ashoka Britto, Stefano DellaVigna and Kaja Silverman won Distinguished Teacher Awards. 
• Margaret Lavinia Anderson, Stanley Brandes, Giovanni (John) Ferrari, Paolo Mancosu, Arthur Shimamura, and Kaja Silverman were awarded John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowships. 
• Maxine Hong Kingston won the Kirsch award.  
• Michael Botchan, Jasper Rine and George Smoot were elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
• Reinhard Genzel won the million-dollar Shaw Prize.
• Pranab K. Bardhan, Louise Palmer Fortmann, and Peter B. Zinoman were named Fulbright scholars.
• Robert Hass won the Pulizer Prize for Time and Materials.
• Richard Karp won the Kyoto Prize.
• Steven E. Brenner, Jennifer Doudna, Susan Marqusee, Barbara J. Meyer, Nipam H. Patel, and Bin Yu were named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
• Walter Alvarez won the $250,000 Vetlesen Prize.
• Yang Dan, Abby F. Dernburg and Michael B. Eisen were appointed Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigators.

2007

• Michael Rape received the National Institutes of Health New Innovator Award.  
• Robert L. Fischer, Stephen P. Hinshaw, Nicholas P. Jewell, Mimi A. R. Koehl, Kevin Padian, Thomas M. "Zack" Powell, and Randy Schekman were named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).  
• Robert Hass won the National Book Award. 

This list contains awards won by L&S faculty and emeriti faculty since 2007. Please note that some awards may have been unintentionally omitted. If you have corrections to this list, please email lsgiving@berkeley.edu.