Prizes & Awards

Accolades, innovations, and world-firsts Often, small successes—even major accomplishments—stay hidden in the Lab. So, when we root out these diamond-like innovations, we try to spread the news to you, our audience. Based on skyrocketing pageviews, you...

The award honors important research contributions which have had a significant, positive impact on humankind On October 21, 2019, Dr. Charles M. Lieber, along with Dr. Alivisatos accepted the 2019 Welch Award in Chemistry. The two recipients will share...

Election to the Academy is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer On Wednesday, February 6, Charles M. Lieber was elected into the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), earning a rare academic hat trick: membership in all...

Professor Lieber earned the prestigious NIH Director’s Pioneer Award for his creative, syringe-injectable mesh electronics for stable monitoring and modulation of neural circuitry. The new mesh electronics paradigm affords seamless integration with the...

The John Gamble Kirkwood Award, presented biennially for “outstanding contributions to the field of Chemistry,” honors the late Professor John G. Kirkwood, Chairman of the Department at Yale. Charles M. Lieber, the Joshua and Beth Friedman University...

"Members represent the most exceptional scholars and leaders in science, medicine, and health in the U.S. and around the globe."

Our Chair, a chemist “whose work has transformed nanoscience and nanotechnology," receives Harvard’s highest faculty honor. As reported by the Harvard Gazette, "Lieber will be the first to hold the University Professorship newly established by Joshua...

On Tuesday, December 10, CCB hosted its undergraduate poster presentation in the Northwest Building, spotlighting the achievements of students enrolled in Chem 10: Quantum, Statistical, and Computational Foundations of Chemistry. This event celebrated...

Woo is one of 126 early-career scholars who "represent the most promising scientific researchers working today" In goggles and a blue lab coat, Assistant Professor Christina Woo smiles as she writes chemical equations on a glass surface in her lab. She...

The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research announced 16 outstanding projects in its latest class of ASPIRE awards, granting more than $5 million for research that aims to answer key feasibility and proof-of-concept questions in an accelerated time frame, and...