January 2019 – July 2022
Do you know an employee or a team of employees whose work has improved operational effectiveness or shown partnership across organizations? Nominate them for the Director’s Award, which recognizes outstanding achievement in support of the Lab’s mission and goals. Nominations are due June 30. https://recognition.lbl.gov/
On May 20, Berkeley Lab physicist and Nobel Prize winner Saul Perlmutter received an honorary doctorate from the Universitat de Barcelona in Spain. His doctorate was sponsored by professor Pilar Ruiz Lapuente, who was a member of the Supernova Cosmology Project, which Perlmutter formerly led. https://www.ub.edu/web/ub/en/menu_eines/noticies/2019/05/023.html
ETA’s Akanksha Menon received the Sigma Xi dissertation award for her work on polymer-based thermoelectrics. The Sigma Xi society recognizes outstanding Ph.D. theses in science and engineering. Menon is an ITRI-Rosenfeld fellow working on materials and technologies for the water-energy nexus. https://sigmaxi.gatech.edu/georgia-tech-sigma-xi-research-awards/
Rebecca Hartman-Baker of NERSC has received the Krell Institute’s Corones Award. The award recognizes mid-career scientists for their impact in leadership, community building, or science communications. The Krell Institute manages two of the nation’s top graduate fellowship programs for the DOE. https://www.krellinst.org/about-krell/corones-award
Shih, JBEI director of Plant Biosystems Design and UC Davis professor, was selected as a Sloan Research Fellow in Computational and Evolutionary Molecular Biology. The fellowship will help his efforts to reconstruct the evolution of photosynthesis. https://biology.ucdavis.edu/news/sloan-fellowship-will-help-new-faculty-patrick-shih-investigate-ancient-origins-photosynthesis
Erin Creel, a research affiliate at the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, was selected as the 2019 graduate student recipient of the UC Berkeley Chancellor’s Award for Civic Engagement. She was honored for teaching science to underserved populations and encouraging girls’ interest in STEM. https://news.berkeley.edu/2019/04/30/berkeley-celebrates-contributions-to-the-public-good-from-staff-students-and-faculty/
Nominations for Exceptional Achievement and the Berkeley Lab Prize-Lifetime Achievement Awards are due June 30. The awards recognize staff for significant accomplishments in advancing the Lab’s mission and strategic goals. Honorees will be celebrated at a ceremony in the fall. https://recognition.lbl.gov/
Lab researchers Roger Falcone, Pamela Ronald, Uros Seljak, and Omar Yaghi have been elected into the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of their exemplary original research. The four new members bring the number of Berkeley Lab scientists elected as NAS members to 84. https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2019/04/30/new-nas-members-2019/
Two Berkeley Lab scientists – climate scientist Inez Fung of the Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, and chemist Martin Head-Gordon of the Energy Sciences Area – have been elected to the Royal Society of London, the oldest scientific academic society in continuous existence. https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2019/04/25/royal-society-of-london-elects-two-berkeley-lab-scientists/
Susan Hubbard, Kam-Biu Luk, Jeffrey Long, and Claire Tomlin have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a prestigious, 239-year old honorary society that recognizes accomplished scholars, scientists, and artists in academia, the humanities, arts, business, and government. https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2019/04/19/american-academy-elections-2019/