Faculty news

Professor Michelle Chang awarded 2022 Centenary Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry

June 16, 2022

Michelle Chang, a professor of chemistry and chemical and biomolecular engineering at UC Berkeley, has been named the 2022 Centenary Prize winner(link is external) by the Royal Society of Chemistry for her “seminal contributions in biosynthesis and biocatalysis to advance energy and environmental science and biomedical research, and for excellence in communication. Professor Chang stated, “I think…

Phillip Messersmith and Wenjun Zhang named Spark Award recipients

June 14, 2022

From artificial ligaments and a novel approach to cancer treatment to “soft” batteries and a way to give voice to silent speech, new innovations from UC Berkeley faculty are getting a big vote of support from the Bakar Fellows program. Seven faculty members have been selected to receive the 2022 Bakar Fellows Spark Award, which…

Faculty focus on Aaron Streets

May 19, 2022

Aaron Streets received a BS in physics and a BA in art at UCLA. He completed his PhD in applied physics at Stanford University with Dr. Stephen Quake. Streets then went to Beijing, China as a Whitaker International Postdoctoral Fellow and a Ford postdoctoral fellow and worked with Dr. Yanyi Huang in the Biodynamic Optical Imaging…

Three QB3-Berkeley faculty members elected to National Academy of Sciences

May 03, 2022

Six UC Berkeley’s faculty members were elected today to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Among these, three are QB3-Berkeley faculty members. The six were among 120 members and 30 international members elected at the conclusion of the academy’s 159th annual meeting. Membership is a…

Nobel laureate Randy Schekman will give 2022 commencement address

April 29, 2022

As a kid growing up in Orange County, UC Berkeley biology professor Randy Schekman remembers collecting a jar of dirty pond scum from a nearby riverbed, sliding it under the lens of his toy microscope and being transfixed by the tiny, cellular world he saw. That fascination led Schekman to an illustrious career: a Berkeley…

Faculty focus on Markita del Carpio Landry

March 16, 2022

Markita del Carpio Landry is an assistant professor in the department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, and the principal investigator of the Landry Laboratory, which has pioneered nanotechnologies for in-brain neurotransmitter imaging, and also genetic manipulation in plants. Prof. Landry is also on the scientific advisory board of Terramera and on…

Four innovative faculty members awarded campus’s 2022 Bakar Prize

February 07, 2022

QB3-Berkeley faculty affiliates Steve Conolly and Niren Murthy are among the four faculty members awarded the Bakar Fellows Program 2022 Bakar Prize.

Eva Nogales among new UC Berkeley AAAS fellows

January 26, 2022

Ten members of the UC Berkeley community have been elected American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) fellows, one of the most distinctive honors within the scientific community. Among these 10 members is Eva Nogales, professor of molecular and cell biology and QB3-Berkeley faculty affiliate.