Faculty Honors

Cosmic Forces in the Classroom

It’s 11 a.m. — do you know where your children are? If they’re lucky, they’re in a Berkeley classroom with a Nobel Prize winner, a national Professor of the Year, or even a certified genius

By Robert Sanders, Jeffery Kahn & Sarah Yang

Winter 2007 | If there’s one thing Berkeley professors excel at, it’s, well, excelling. Our faculty members win every conceivable award, fill the ranks of the national academies, and rake in Guggenheims, Fulbrights, MacArthurs, and other weighty honors at an astounding clip. (For the numbers, see www.berkeley.edu/about/honors.)

This past fall was an especially good season for Berkeley faculty — and for the undergraduates in their classrooms. Here we present a few of the recent success stories.

Peg Skorpinski photo		Steve McConnell photo		Linda A. Cicero photo
George Smoot: Cosmologist wins Berkeley's 20th Nobel Prize >		Alex Filippenko: An Astronomer with a stellar teaching style >		Claire Tomlin: And geniuses? We've got geniuses! >