Awards & Honors

Ken Ribet awarded math prize for influential proof

December 16, 2024
Robert Sanders

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...

https://news.berkeley.edu/2024/12/16/ken-ribet-awarded-math-prize-for-influentia…

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

December 16, 2024
Aimee Chang, Division of Arts & Humanities

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,...

Haas Scholar Ruby King advocates for the inclusion of Indigenous fire practices in fire policies and land management strategies

November 20, 2024
Lily Barr

This story originally appeared on research.berkeley.edu on November 6, 2024.

Ruby King (she/they) | Haas Scholars Program | Spring '25
Majors: Native American Studies & Psychology Headshot of person with long dark hair wearing a nose ring and strings of shells around their neck, along with a black shirt and silver necklace

Ruby...

https://research.berkeley.edu/haas-scholars-spotlight/

Haas Scholar Amber Griffin-Royal shares her experience as a re-entry transfer student with learning differences

November 12, 2024
Lily Barr

This story originally appeared on research.berkeley.edu on November 6, 2024.

Amber Griffin-Royal (she/her) | Haas Scholars Program | Summer '25

Woman with pink roses in her curly brown hair smiles at cameraAmber is a Haas Scholar currently majoring in...

https://research.berkeley.edu/haas-scholars-spotlight/

Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow, Sanjana Curtis, is awarded an Eric and Wendy Schmidt Award for Excellence in Science Communications

October 25, 2024
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine announced today this year’s recipients of the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communications, given by the National Academies in partnership with Schmidt Sciences. These prestigious awards recognize science journalists, research scientists, and science communicators who have developed creative...
https://www.nationalacademies.org/news/2024/10/national-academies-announce-2024-…

Neuroscience professor Markita Landry included in Atlas of Inspiring Hispanic/Latinx Scientists

October 21, 2024

Neuroscience faculty member Markita del Carpio Landry has been included in The Atlas of Inspiring Hispanic/Latinx Scientists(link is external). Scientists were...

https://www.fredhutch.org/en/about/about-the-hutch/faculty-affairs-and-diversity…

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’.

https://www.statnews.com/meet-the-2024-stat-wunderkinds/akanksha-thawani/

Four 2024 Nobel Prize winners are connected to UC Berkeley's College of Letters & Science

October 16, 2024
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Nine of the ten UC Berkeley faculty members holding Nobel Prizes reside in UC Berkeley's College of Letters & Science. L&S has a deep legacy of groundbreaking research and transformative discoveries, and as a result, has generated several faculty members and alumni honored with Nobel Prize awards for their academic contributions. For the 2024 Nobel Prizes, four of the Nobel...

Times Higher Ed ranks UC Berkeley No. 1 public university in U.S.

October 16, 2024
Public Affairs

UC Berkeley is the No. 1 public university in the U.S and the eighth-best university in the world, according to the Times Higher Education’s 2025 World University Rankings, released on Oct. 8. Berkeley has held the ranking of top U.S. public university for nine of the past 10 years.

This year’s rankings evaluated more than 2,000 universities from 115 countries and territories and were based on five criteria: teaching, research environment, research quality, industry...

https://news.berkeley.edu/2024/10/09/times-higher-ed-ranks-uc-berkeley-no-1-publ…