Ashok Gadgil—Awards and Honors

Awards and Honors

Global Citizen Award by the United Nations Association of USA (East Bay Chapter): For "individual efforts to ensure that your invention is in place and functioning ... thereby saving lives and improving the quality of life of the beneficiaries."
Popular Mechanics Magazine, "Breakthrough Award": For the Berkeley-Darfur Stove.
UC Berkeley Chancellor's Award for Faculty Public Service: "For outstanding leadership and commitment to service-learning."

Honored by the Museum of Science and Technology, Chicago: As one of 40 living exemplars of the spirit of Leonardo da Vinci in modern America.

Trendsetter, Public Works Magazine: For inexpensive safe drinking water solutions for developing countries.
Outstanding Performance Award by LBNL: For invention and development of a method for arsenic removal from drinking water, using coated coal ash.

"Tech Laureate" award by the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose: In the health category, for development and implementation of innovative technology to improve societal health.
Outstanding Technology Transfer Award by the Federal Laboratory Consortium of DOE: For protecting against chemical and biological threats to buildings, facilities and occupants.

One of the 35 top American inventors featured in the book "Inventing Modern America", Brown, MIT Press.

Outstanding Performance Award by LBNL: For invention and development of Computed Tomography of indoor tracer gases.
Outstanding Technology Transfer Award by the Federal Laboratory Consortium of DOE: For UVWaterworks.

Featured scientist in Smithsonian Institution's program "Innovative Lives" at the National Museum of American History.

Discover Award: For the most significant invention in Environment category for 1995: "UV Waterworks," an inexpensive and rugged device to disinfect drinking water for developing world communities.
"Best of What is New — 1996" award by Popular Science Magazine: For UV Waterworks.

Pew Fellowship in Conservation and the Environment: A 3-year $150,000 award by the Pew Scholars Program for work on Energy Efficiency Policy in Developing Countries.