Recent Awards and Honors
Andrew Zhou: Churchill Scholar, 2021-2022
Frances Arnold: Co-chair of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, 2021. Read more about it here
Kadina Johnston: Amazon AI4Science Fellowship, 2020
Soumitra Athavale: Co-winner, 2nd Merck Compound Challenge – a global retrosynthesis competition which saw the participation of 132 teams, 2020
Andrew Zhou: Richard P. Schuster Memorial Prize, 2020
Soumitra Athavale: Recipient: 2020 ACS Green Chemistry Institute, Pharmaceutical Roundtable (ACS-GCIPR) research grant
Benjamin Levin: NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2020
Dr. Kai Chen: Clauser Prize, 2020
Bruce Wittmann: Two Sigma PhD Fellowship Finalist, 2020
Nicholas Sarai: NSF Graduate Research Program Fellowship, 2020
Dr. Kai Chen: McCoy award in Chemistry, 2020
Allison Tang: Caltech Library Undergraduate Senior Thesis Prize (2019)
Frances Arnold: Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2018)
Xiongyi Huang: NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA postdoctoral fellowship (2017)
Kari Hernandez: Constantin Economou Memorial Lecturer (2017)
Frances Arnold: Society of Women Engineers Lifetime Achievement Award, August 2017
Frances Arnold: Margaret H Rousseau Pioneer Award, 2017
Frances Arnold: Robert Fletcher Award and Honorary Doctorate, Dartmouth University, 2017
Frances Arnold: National Academy of Sciences Sackler Prize in Convergence Research, 2017
Jenny Kan (postdoc), Rusty Lewis (grad), Kai Chen (grad): Grand Prize winners in the Dow Sustainability Innovation Student Challenge, Caltech Resnick Sustainability Institute, November 18, 2016
Jackson Cahn (PhD 2016): Caltech Herbert Newby McCoy Award, given to the most outstanding graduate students in the Divison of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, 2016
Frances Arnold: Millennium Technology Prize, Technology Academy Finland, May 2016
Stephan Hammer (current postdoc): Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) postdoctoral fellowship, 2016
David Romney (current postdoc): NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA postdoctoral fellowship, 2016
Ruijie Kelly Zhang (current grad): appointed to the inaugural cohort of the Biotechnology Leadership Training Grant Program at Caltech, 2015
Kevin Yang (current grad): appointed to the inaugural cohort of the Biotechnology Leadership Training Grant Program at Caltech, 2015
Linda Chio (class 2015), John McIntosh (lab mentor): Caltech Merck Index Award, 2015
Austin Rice (current postdoc): NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA postdoctoral fellowship, 2015
Andrew Buller (current postdoc): NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA postdoctoral fellowship, 2015
Jackson Cahn (grad): Global Young Scientists Summit at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 2015
Jesse Bloom (PhD 2007): Pew Scholar in Biomedical Sciences, 2015; Burroughs Wellcome Young Investigator in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Diseases, 2015
Claire Bedbrook (current grad): NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA predoctoral fellowship, 2014
Hans Renata (postdoc): Global Young Scientists Summit in Singapore, 2014
Indira Wu (PhD 2013) and Frances Arnold: “Engineered Thermostable Fungal Cel6A and Cel7A Cellobiohydrolases Hydrolyze Cellulose Efficiently at Elevated Temperatures” wins 2014 Elmer Gaden Award from Biotechnology & Bioengineering
Murat Acar (postdoc): NIH New Innovator Award, 2014
Katie Brenner (PhD 2009): L’Oreal USA For Women in Science fellowship, 2014
Arde Boghossian (postdoc): NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA postdoctoral fellowship, 2014
Scott McIsaac (postdoc): Life Sciences Research Foundation research fellowship, 2014
Frances Arnold: Fellow, National Academy of Inventors, 2014
Frances Arnold: Golden Plate Award, Academy of Achievement, 2014
Frances Arnold: US National Inventors Hall of Fame, 2014
Jackson Cahn (grad): Graduate Research Fellowship from the Caltech Resnick Sustainability Institute, 2013
Karolina Kalbarczk (class 2013): Senior Thesis Prize in Chemical Engineering from the Friends of the Caltech Libraries, May 2013
Nikki Peck (grad) and Jane Wang (postdoc): Grand Prize winners in the Dow Sustainability Innovation Student Challenge, Caltech Resnick Sustainability Institute, November 2013
Frances Arnold: ENI Prize in Renewable and Nonconventional Energy, 2013
Frances Arnold: US National Medal of Technology and Innovation, 2011