Archive for the Awards & Recognition Category

Gadgil student researchers win the EPA Phase I award!

In Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) People, Prosperity, and the Planet (P3) design competition, our research team was accepted to phase I of the program to […]

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Gadgil Lab Undergraduate Students were not stopped by the Pandemic

Samyukta Shrivatsa and Aarti Visswanathanwere the lower division winners for the distinguished Charlene Conrad Liebau Library Prize for Undergraduate Research on “Exploring a Decision-Trigger for […]

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Samantha Hing wins the Joan Daisy Award!

Samantha Hing wins the  Joan Daisy Award!

Congratulations to Samantha Hing, PhD Candidate in the GadgilLab for winning the Joan Daisy Award for her work on improving air quality and the impacts […]

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Ashok Gadgil awarded the Curry Stone Design Prize 2017

The Curry Stone Design Prize recognizes excellence in design for positive societal impact.  Prof. Gadgil was recognized with that Prize in August 2017, for “designing […]

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Kathleen Lask awarded a Soroptimist Founder Region Fellowship

Kathleen Lask, a doctoral candidate in Applied Science & Technology, received a Soroptimist Founder Region Fellowship for the coming year. Soroptimist is a global women’s […]

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Hanna Breunig awarded an EPA STAR Fellowship

Hanna Breunig, Environmental Engineering PhD student, received an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) STAR fellowship for the coming year. The competitive STAR Fellowship attracts, supports and […]

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Kathleen Lask awarded NSF GROW grant to Australia

The NSF Graduate Research Opportunities Worldwide (GROW) grant is “a collaboration between NSF, international partners and USAID to provide NSF Fellows with expanded opportunities to […]

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Ashok Gadgil inducted in the National Inventors’ Hall of Fame

Of the >8 million total patents issued by the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), inventors of only 10 to 12 patents are annually elected […]

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I-House at UC Berkeley honors Wendy Schmidt and Ashok Gadgil as Alumni of the Year

I-House at UC Berkeley honors Wendy Schmidt and Ashok Gadgil as Alumni of the Year

  International House (“I-House”) at UC Berkeley—one of the largest multi-national residential and programming cultural centers in the world— honored philanthropist Wendy Schmidt and inventor […]

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Caroline Delaire wins an Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award

Caroline received the 2013-2014 Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, sponsored by the GSI Teaching and Resource Center, in recognition for her achievements as a teacher […]

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Hanna Breunig has been named a 2014 Schmidt-MacArthur Fellow

Hanna Breunig will be representing UC Berkeley as a 2014 Schmidt-MacArthur Fellow. “The Schmidt-MacArthur Fellowship is an international postgraduate fellowship on the circular economy for […]

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Ashok Gadgil inducted into the National Academy of Engineering

          On left is NAE Chair, Charles O. (“Chad”) Holliday Jr., and on right is NAE President, C. D. (“Dan”) Mote […]

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Reed Elsevier Environmental Challenge second place winner – Gadgil Lab, UC Berkeley

Reed Elsevier Environmental Challenge second place winner – Gadgil Lab, UC Berkeley

          The long-awaited list of winners of the prestigious Reed Elsevier Environmental Challenge has been announced September 3rd in Stockholm during […]

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DIL-Explore grant awarded to Caroline Delaire and Katyayani Cherukumilli

DIL-Explore grant awarded to Caroline Delaire and Katyayani Cherukumilli

The DIL-Explore grant is a 5k travel grant provided by the Development Impact Lab (DIL) to support early-stage research in the field of development engineering. It especially […]

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DIL-Explore grant awarded to Kathleen Lask

DIL-Explore grant awarded to Kathleen Lask

The DIL Explore grant is a 5k travel grant  to support early-stage research in the field of development engineering. It especially aimed at supporting students who want to […]

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Prof. Gadgil will give the first Distinguished Lecture in UC Berkeley’s CEE

Prof. Gadgil will give the first Distinguished Lecture in UC Berkeley's CEE

Professor Ashok Gadgil has been selected to give the first of the UC Berkeley’s CEE Distinguished Lectures. The lectures is titled Innovating Technologies for the […]

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Daniel Wilson wins the Fulbright

Daniel Wilson wins the Fulbright

Danny is honored and elated to announce that he has won the prestigious Fulbright Nehru Fellowship. Daniel will move to India in Spring 2015 to pursue […]

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Kathleen Lask wins NSF EAPSI fellowship to research abroad in Australia!

Gadgil Group member Kathleen Lask has been selected as an NSF EAPSI Australia Fellow for Summer 2013! The EAPSI award provides U.S. graduate students in […]

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Kathleen Lask and Jennifer Jones win grand prize at 2012 BERC Innovation Symposium!

Two members of the stove team – Kathleen Lask and Jennifer Jones – were awarded the grand prize at the 2012 BERC Innovation Symposium! Lask […]

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Caroline Delaire receives a Dow Sustainability Innovation Student Challenge Award

Graduate student Caroline Delaire, a member of the ECAR team, has been selected as the 2012 Runner-Up for the Dow Sustainability Innovation Student Challenge Award […]

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