Awards

Congratulations to Scott Miller for winning the 2026 ACS Gabor A. Somorjai Award for Creative Research in Catalysis. This award recognizes outstanding theoretical, experimental, or developmental research resulting in the advancement of understanding or the application of catalysis. Miller is one of many ACS awardees… Read More »Professor Scott Miller Wins the ACS Gabor A. Somorjai Award for Creative Research in Catalysis

Congratulations to the class of 2025! Leah Roe, Ph.D. (Schepartz Lab) and Kristina Boyko, Ph.D. (Cate Lab) received doctoral degrees, and Rebecca Bernstein (Cate Lab), Katie Fitzgerald (Cate Lab), Martina Boga de Teresa (Cate Lab), Cathy Zhu (Cate Lab), Arjun Garapaty (Schepartz Lab) received Bachelor’s… Read More »C-GEM celebrates spring 2025 graduates

Congratulations to Arjun Garapaty (undergraduate) and Kaitlyn Szalay (SURP scholar, 2021) for winning NSF GRFP awards. Arjun is graduating from UC Berkeley in May, and Kaitlyn is a PhD candidate in the Chatterjee lab at Boston College. Congratulations to Alex Solivan (graduate student), Isaac Garcia… Read More »C-GEM students receive NSF GRFP award and honorable mentions

Congratulations to Arjun Garapaty (undergraduate, Schepartz lab) for being awarded a travel award to attend NDiSTEM this past weekend! Arjun did a great job presenting his poster and won a poster award for his work. Well deserved, Arjun!

This week was National Postdoc Appreciation Week! UC Berkeley’s Visiting Scholars and Postdoc Affairs (VSPA) Office organized PostdocFest to celebrate the essential, hard work postdocs do to keep scientific research moving forward. At the event, Carly Schissel (postdoc, UC Berkeley) accepted the Postdoc Achievement Award… Read More »Carly Schissel wins Berkeley Postdoc Achievement Award

Congratulations to Schepartz Lab postdoc Carly Schissel who was awarded a “Best Poster” award at the 2024 Genetic Code Expansion Conference last weekend in Corvallis, Oregon. Well-deserved! Featured image credit: Justin Smith, University Marketing, Oregon State University

Congratulations to Kate Shulgina (Postdoc, UC Berkeley) for being one of 21 people awarded the Don Brown Life Sciences Research Foundation Fellowship! The LSRF award provides three years of support to a named postdoctoral researcher doing life sciences research at a non-profit university or research… Read More »Kate Shulgina is awarded a Life Sciences Research Foundation Fellowship

Meghan Pressimone (graduate student, UC Berkeley) and Leah Roe (graduate student, UC Berkeley) both won travel awards to attend the 2024 Protein Society Annual Symposium. Congratulations to both of them!