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Awards, grants, & fellowships at Berkeley: Opportunities for recognition — such as the Distinguished Teaching Award (for faculty) and the Outstanding GSI Award (for graduate-student instructors) — as well as pedagogical research grants for both faculty and GSIs.
National rankings
In a National Research Council analysis of 212 doctoral programs at American colleges and universities, 48 Berkeley programs place among the top 10 nationwide.
The national and international awards held by faculty underscore Berkeley's preeminence. A total of 22 faculty have been named Nobel Prize winners, including the eight who are current faculty members, along with 32 MacArthur Fellows and 4 Pulitzer Prize winners.
National and international awards held by faculty
| Current | |
|---|---|
| American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellows | 224 |
| American Philosophical Society | 39 |
| American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellows | 230 |
| A. M. Turing (computing) | 3 |
| Fields Medal in Mathematics | 3 |
| Fulbright Scholars | 77 |
| Guggenheim Fellows | 357 |
| Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigators | 17 |
| Institute of Medicine members | 11 |
| MacArthur Fellows | 32 |
| National Academy of Education | 7 |
| National Academy of Engineering | 94 |
| National Academy of Sciences | 141 |
| National Medal of Science | 13 |
| National Poet Laureates | 1 |
| National Science Foundation Young Investigators Awards | 61 |
| Nobel Prize (current faculty members) | 8 |
| Polk Award in Journalism | 5 |
| Pulitzer Prizes | 4 |
| Shaw Prize | 3 |
| Sloan Fellows (young researchers) | 118 |
| Wolf Prizes in agriculture, mathematics, chemistry, physics, medicine and the arts | 6 |