Celebrate the University of California’s newest Nobel laureates and hear their reflections on the value and impact of scientific discovery in this recorded conversation with UC President Michael V. Drake, M.D., and UC Board of Regents Chair John A. Pérez.

Jennifer Doudna, UC Berkeley and UCSF professor and Berkeley Lab faculty scientist, shares the prize with Emmanuelle Charpentier for their discovery of CRISPR-Cas9 as a tool for making targeted changes to the genome.

Andrea Ghez and Reinhard Genzel will share half the 2020 Nobel in physics for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the center of our galaxy.

In addition to all undergraduate campuses making the national top 100, UC also took four of the top 5 spots for social mobility.

A full 15 percent of the newly selected early-career faculty are researchers at UC.

Four alums and one professor earn prestigious fellowships to continue their creative work.

Forty with ties to the University of California recognized by the magazine as young leaders in their fields.

Genome-editing technology invented at UC Berkeley is year’s top innovation.

All 10 UC campuses are among the best universities in the world in research impact, with eight among the top 25 public universities in the United States, according to the 2025-26 Best Global Universities ranking from U.S. News & World Report.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author is this year’s recipient of the Distinguished Humanities Undergraduate Alumni Award from UC Santa Cruz.

Together with Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore National Labs, the University of California is funding research to develop new AI approaches in genomics, quantum materials discovery and geothermal energy.

Across categories of reporting, biography, history, and nonfiction UC alums from four campuses produced urgent work of the highest quality.