- Professor E.E. Haller has been elected to The National Academy of Engineering.

- Professor R.O. Ritchie has been awarded the 2010 A. Cemal Eringen Medal from the Society of Engineeering Science

- Professor T. Devine has been awarded the 2010 Willis Rodney Whitney Award in recognition of outstanding contributions to the science of corrosion by NACE International.

- Professor R. Ramesh has been awarded the 2010 James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials by the American Physical Society.

- Professor T. N. Narasimhan has been awarded the 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Groundwater Resources Association of California.

- Professor E. Haller has been awarded the 2010 TMS John Bardeen Award.

- Professor J. Evans has been selected as a 2010 TMS Fellow.

- Professor D. de Fontaine has been selected as the 2010 winner of the TMS Hume Rothery Award.

- Professor Paul Alivisatos is the new director of LBNL (2009).

- Professor T. Xu was selected as a winner of the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Award (May, 2009).

- Professor R. Ritchie was selected as the inagural recipient of the International Congress on Fracture (ICF) Alan Cottrell Gold Medal (May, 2009).

- Professor R. Ritchie is elected as a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society (Apr, 2009).

- Professor A. Majumdar is appointed as the Associate Lab Director for Energy and Environment at the Lawrence Berkekeley National Lab (Mar, 2009).

- Professor R. Ritchie wins the 2010 Edward DeMille Campbell Memorial Lectureship Award from ASM, and is elected to the Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) (Mar, 2009).

- Professors R. Ramesh and A. P. Alivisatos are elected to MRS Fellow (Mar, 2009).

- Professor and Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau joins the MSE Department.

- Professor Robert Ritchie wins the 2010 Robert Franklin Mehl Award & Institute of Metals Lectureship from TMS.

- Professors Haller and Morris are appointed as MRS Fellows.

- Professor Ramesh wins MRS Turnbull Award.