Awards & Honors

The Berkeley Staff Assembly recently announced the recipients of the 37th annual Excellence in Management Award, who are recognized for leading their teams and team members to meaningful accomplishments this past year. This year’s award theme, “A Culture of Excellence: Inspiring Performance and Growth," highlights leaders who foster an environment where innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement thrive, empowering their teams to achieve their full potential and drive organizational success.

The award recipients were honored at a ceremony on April 30, where Chancellor...

Five individual staff members from the College of Letters & Science are recipients of the 2025 Chancellor's Outstanding Staff Awards (COSA). One of the highest honors bestowed upon staff by the Chancellor, the COSA awards are presented to individuals who, in addition to performing their normal job duties with excellence, "...

Philosopher Hannah Ginsborg will use the award to write a book about the relation between norms and reasons, while chemical engineer Markita del Carpio Landry will try to find molecules in little-studied plants that could treat neurological disorders.

For the past 100 years, the Guggenheim Foundation has bestowed one of the highest intellectual honors on North American academics and creatives: the Guggenheim Fellowship. Zora Neale Hurston penned Their Eyes Were Watching God during her time as a fellow; James Baldwin and UC Berkeley’s Jennifer Doudna are also alumni...

Amy E. Lerman, professor of public policy and political science and director of the Possibility Lab at UC Berkeley has been awarded a Carnegie Fellowship by the Carnegie Corporation. The prestigious fellowship grants $200,000 in support of a book or major project to each member of the cohort of scholars, authors, journalists, and public intellectuals who focus on political polarization in the United States.

Lerman studies civic engagement and public opinion, especially as they relate to public safety and social...