Awards & Honors

UC Berkeley senior Eli Glickman awarded prestigious Marshall Scholarship

December 16, 2024

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...

Marianne Constable named inaugural Distinguished Rhetoric Faculty Fellow

December 17, 2024

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...

Ken Ribet awarded math prize for influential proof

December 16, 2024

Portrait of Ken Ribet wearing a green shirt with a dark backgroundMathematician Ken Ribet is well known for a 1990 paper that paved the way, five years later, for a historic proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem, one of the most famous unsolved mathematical problems of modern times.

But an oft-cited paper he wrote earlier in his career, in 1976, is dearer to his heart and has now earned him a coveted...

Vasugi Kailasam (SSEAS) is the 2024 recipient of the Pyrtanean Faculty Enrichment Award

December 16, 2024

This article originally appeared on the Division of Arts & Humanities on December 6, 2024.

Headshot of woman with dark hair smiling at camera The Division of Arts and Humanities is proud to announce that South and Southeast Asian Studies Assistant Professor Vasugi Kailasam is the 2024 recipient of the Pyrtanean Faculty...

L&S staff honored with 2024 Excellence in Advising & Student Services awards

November 22, 2024

UC Berkeley’s Council on Advising and Student Services and awards planning committee recently announced the recipients of the 2024 Excellence in Advising & Student Services Awards, which recognize the recipients' positive and innovative impacts on student learning,...

Akanksha Thawani, molecular & cell biology postdoc, named STAT Wunderkind

October 21, 2024

MCB postdoc Akanksha Thawani (Nogales & Collins Labs) was selected as a 2024 STAT Wunderkind. This award recognizes Thawani as an outstanding early-career scientist and is for her research on unraveling the mysteries of ‘the next CRISPR’.