Since 2015, Dr. Christ has served as director of the Center for Studies in Higher Education and interim executive vice chancellor and provost at Berkeley. From 2002 to 2013, Dr. Christ was president of Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts.
Jennifer Doudna, professor of biochemistry, biophysics, and structural biology at the University of California at Berkeley, is being honored for her work on RNA by the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health.