UC Berkeley Economics Professor Chen Lian has recently been awarded a two-year, $75,000 fellowship from the Sloan Foundation. Since 1955, the prestigious fellowship has been awarded annually to U.S. and Canadian researchers excelling in “creativity, innovation, and research accomplishments.”
Lian was inspired to pursue economics by the East Asian economic miracle — a period of rapid economic growth between 1965 and 1990. Lian’s research focuses on macroeconomics, behavioral economics and finance. He plans to use the $75,000 grant to further...
Inspired by UC Berkeley Professor Frances Hellman and started at UC Berkeley and UC San Diego, the Hellman Fellows Fund(link is external) provides much needed support to pre-tenure assistant professors who have served for at least two years. Established in 1995, the Hellman Fellows Program has since expanded to include all ten UC campuses and a handful of private institutions.
In fields ranging from AI to health care to Hollywood and beyond, 20 UC Berkeley students, faculty and alumni have been recognized for their achievements on this year’s edition of Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list.
Featuring 46 UC-affiliated honorees overall, the annual list highlights rising stars in 20 categories across the arts, technology and social impact. To make one of the Forbes’ 30...
UC Berkeley Anthropology Professor Christine Hastorf was awarded the Pomerance Award for Scientific Contributions to Archaeology.
Each year, the Archaeological Institute of America—the oldest and largest professional archeology association in North America—chooses one scholar to honor with the prestigious Pomerance Award for Scientific Contributions to Archaeology.
Over the past 45 years, Hastorf has engaged in archaeobotanical research. Her work covers a range of topics, such as agricultural production, cooking...
Six young early career researchers at UC Berkeley have been awarded a prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship, granted annually to “honor exceptional researchers at U.S. and Canadian educational institutions whose creativity, innovation and research accomplishments make them stand out as the next generation of leaders,” according to an...
UC Berkeley’s Department of History is recognizing one of its most beloved professors with a new speaker series devoted to African American history. The series extends the legacy of Leon Litwack, a trailblazing scholar who taught generations of students to peer behind the curtain of whitewashed narratives and learn difficult truths about their country’s past.
Few areas of scholarship are as contentious — and...
Roxana (Qinhong) Wang, a recent graduate of the UC Berkeley class of 2024, has been awarded a 2025-26 Schwarzman Scholarship. Wang, who studied Comparative Literature and Ancient Greek and Roman Studies in the College of Letters & Science, was selected as one of 150 scholars from a pool of nearly 5,000 candidates. She is Berkeley’s sixteenth recipient of the award since its inception in 2013.
“Many highly qualified Berkeley students apply for the Schwarzman Scholarship every year, so it is impossible to predict who will be offered a place...
Stuart D. Bale has been awarded the 2025 Arctowski Medal for "revolutioniz[ing] our understanding of the energization of and heat transport in the solar wind." The Arctowski Medal is presented every two years to recognize outstanding contributions to the study of solar physics and solar terrestrial relationships. The Medal is presented with an award of $100,000, plus $100,000 to support research in solar physics and solar terrestrial relationships at an institution of the recipient’s choice. The Arctowski Medal was established in 1958 by the bequest of Jane Arctowska in honor of her...
Eli Glickman, a senior Political Science major and Public Policy minor in the UC Berkeley College of Letters & Science from Bethesda, MD, has been named a 2025 Marshall Scholar, the university’s first since 2022. As a Marshall Scholar, Glickman will be funded for two years of graduate study in the United Kingdom. Glickman is Berkeley’s 34th recipient of the Marshall Scholarship since its inception in 1953.
“I was extremely pleased when I first learned that I had been selected as a Marshall Scholar,” Glickman shared. “The application process...
The Department of Rhetoric selected Marianne Constable as the inaugural recipient of the Distinguished Rhetoric Faculty Fellowship. Constable is a UC Berkeley professor, a leading authority in law and language, and a co-founder of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities.
“Marianne Constable has amassed a glittering record in scholarship, teaching, and service over the course of her 34-year...
