Simon Billinge, Professor of Materials Science and Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, along with a team of scientists from UC Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Brookhaven National Laboratory, have made important progress in understanding one of the most promising artificial photosynthesis catalysts, cobalt oxide. Their findings were published in PNAS.

Congratulations to Michal Lipson, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Electrical Engineering and Professor of Applied Physics, for her election into the National Academy of Sciences! Lipson pioneered critical building blocks in the field of Silicon Photonics, which today is recognized as one of the most promising directions for solving the major bottlenecks in microelectronics. She was awarded the MacArthur Fellow, the Blavatnik Award, the Optical Society’s R.W. Wood Prize, the IEEE Photonics Award, the NAS Comstock Prize in Physics, and an honorary degree from Trinity College, University of Dublin.