UC Berkeley's College of Letters & Science is proud to announce the recipients of the 2025 L&S Faculty Awards. This distinguished award recognizes each awardee's exceptional scholarship, service to the College and community, and transformational teaching. These extraordinary individuals not only embody the excellence of the College of Letters & Science, but they also serve as an inspiration to the entire campus community. The recipients will be honored at a private ceremony on Wednesday, May 14....
The Script Encoding Initiative (SEI), led by researchers Anushah Hossain and Deborah Anderson in the Linguistics Department, recently received grants from the Internet Society Foundation ($300,000) and the Mellon Foundation ($1M) for research on digital inclusion of diverse writing systems. SEI aims to increase the number of writing systems...
The campus's highest honor for teaching excellence, the Distinguished Teaching Award underscores the profound impact instructors have on their students’ learning experiences and future careers.
Five UC Berkeley instructors have received the 2025 Distinguished Teaching Award, the campus’s highest honor for teaching excellence. The Academic Senate’s Committee on Teaching announced the selection on March 10, highlighting that this year’s recipients are “tremendously effective...
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...
Alianza at UC Berkeley, a Chicanx/Latinx staff organization, recently announced the winners of the 2025 UC Berkeley Alianza Latinx Staff Award. This award is designed to "recognize and honor the remarkable achievements, contributions, and talents of our Latinx-identifying staff members." Congratulations to all of this year's recipients, which include the following L...
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...
