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.

$3 million award recognizes research achievements at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider

The prestigious award, now in its 100th year, is granted to distinguished artists and scholars and provides support for their creative and research endeavors.

UC once again earned top marks, including a slew of No. 1 rankings, across its schools of business, education, engineering, law, medicine and nursing, and programs in humanities and the social sciences.

Chancellor Yang is a leader of the Santa Barbara community, a giant in his field, and an embodiment of the University’s mission, remarked President Drake in bestowing the honor.