American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Berkeley Lab scientists Dung-Hai Lee and Jizhong Zhou were recently elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 

Known as a deep thinker, UC Berkeley professor emeritus of biochemistry and structural biology Alexander Glazer died at the age of 86 on July 18.

Nine UC Berkeley faculty members from a wide range of departments were elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, or AAAS, on Thursday.

Nine UC Berkeley faculty members, along with former first lady Michelle Obama, were recently elected to join the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

One of America’s oldest independent policy research centers, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences elected professors Eric Brewer, Bruce Buffett, James Demmel, Rosemary Gillespie, Hilary Hoynes, Robert Levenson, Eliot Quataert, Dean Toste and Birgitta Whaley to join its class of 2018.

Renowned as an innovative composer and musician, UC Berkeley professor emeritus of music Olly Wilson, who died March 12 at 80 years old, will be remembered by colleagues and friends for his many talents and his advocacy work on campus.

Humanities majors are unequivocally one of the most underappreciated and undervalued groups of students on the UC Berkeley campus.

The National Science Board awarded former UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau the Vannevar Bush Award on Thursday for his research in physics and dedication to public education, among other contributions.

Nine UC Berkeley professors will join 234 other campus faculty in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, it was announced Wednesday.

UC Berkeley researchers studying public research universities released a report Thursday that proposes strategies to sustain these institutions and their students despite state funding cuts.