Awards for Berkeley Emeriti

Distinguished Emeritus of the Year

2004 - George Leitmann
2005 - George G. Judge
2006 - Paul Licht
2007 - Karl Pister
2008 - Howard Schachman
2010 - Andrew Janos
2011 - Charles H. Townes
2012 - Thomas Brady
2013 - John Prausnitz
2014 - Elizabeth Colson
2015 - Neil Smelser
2016 - David Wake
2017 - Donald A. Riley
2018 - John Heilbron
2019 - Louise George Clubb
2020 - Ishmael Reed
2021 - John Swartzberg
2022 - Nelson Graburn, Caroline Kane 
2023 - Sheldon Zedeck 
2024 - Michael Buckland, Richard Scheffler 

Schreiber Emeriti Faculty Research Fund Award

2019-20 Recipients
Catherine Gallagher (English)
Zinmay Renee Sung (Plant & Microbial Biology)
Sheldon Zedeck (Psychology)

Recent Awards

Emeritus of the Year 2024

Michael Buckland, School of Information 
Richard Scheffler, School of Public Health 


Emeritus of the Year 2023

Sheldon Zedeck, Psychology

Emeriti of the Year 2022

Nelson Graburn
Caroline Kane

Emeritus of the Year 2021

John Swartzberg

Edward A. Dickson Emeriti Professorship, 2021-2022

Sheldon Zedeck, Psychology

Emeritus of the Year 2020
Ishmael Reed
(photo by Michael Avedon)

Edward A. Dickson Emeriti Professorship, 2018-2019
Jan de Vries, History
Christina Maslach, Psychology

History of UC Berkeley Edward A. Dickson Emeriti Professorship and list of recipients

Constantine Panunzio Distinguished Emeriti Award, 2018-19
Robert Alter

List of Panunzio Awardees 1982 to 2019

There are three awards available for nominated Berkeley Emeriti (and you can self-nominate as well as have your colleagues submit nominations). 

The Emeritus/a of the Year Award is determined by a committee of the UC Berkeley Emeriti Association. Accomplishments and contributions of a retired faculty member since retiring are the primary considerations for this award.  Nominations are due in late January or early February each year. A call for nominations goes out to Departments and through the Academic Senate. The awardee is invited to present at a reception in the Fall, sponsored by the UCB Emeriti Association. 

The Dickson Award winner(s) are selected by the Academic Senate.  Edward A. Dickson served as a Regent of the University of California from 1913 to 1946, the longest tenure of any Regent. In 1955, Mr. Dickson presented the University with a gift endowment which enables each campus to make an annual $10,000 award recognizing teaching, research, or public service by one or more emeritus/a professors, or a salary stipend for emeriti professors on recall. The highest priority is for support of activities that benefit the campus and for which funding is not available from other sources. One nomination from each Department is considered and reviewed. The submission deadline is in the middle of December each year.

The Panunzio Awardees are nominated by each campus’ Academic Senate, and this systemwide award is decided by a committee at UCLA. Created by a bequest from Professor Constantine Panunzio of UC Los Angeles, the Constantine Panunzio Distinguished Emeriti Award honors outstanding scholarly work or educational service (e.g. service in professional, University, Academic Senate, emeriti, departmental, or editorial posts or committees) performed since retirement by a University of California emeritus or emerita in the humanities or social sciences. This award comes with a $5,000 prize in addition to the publicity surrounding the significance of the award. Nominations to the Berkeley Academic Senate are due by the end of January each year.