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Omar Yaghi, the inventor of MOFs, led the study on MOF-powered water harvesters that was published July 6 in Nature Water. (Photo courtesy of Omar Yaghi)

UC Berkeley researchers have designed an extreme-weather proven, hand-held device that can extract and convert water...Read more about Hand-held water harvester powered by sunlight could combat water scarcity

Research Corporation for Science Advancement, theHeising-Simons Foundation, the Kavli...Read more about 8 Teams Win Awards in Final Year of Scialog: Signatures of Life in the Universe

Fifth year graduate student Kay Xia (lab of Dean Toste) is the first recipient of the College of Chemistry Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Scholar Program. This scholarship covers a year of tuition and includes a stipend for a graduate student to work on a project that's related to DEI in...Read more about Q&A: Kay Xia: Inaugural College of Chemistry Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Scholar

Illustration: Jenny Nuss/Berkeley Lab

Using a complex cast of metal-studded pigments, proteins, enzymes, and co-enzymes, photosynthetic organisms can convert the energy in light into the chemical energy for life. And now, thanks to a study published in ...Read more about Photosynthesis, Key to Life on Earth, Starts with a Single Photon

Ribosomes (blue, upper left) are nanomachines that read mRNA (coming in from left) to assemble a chain of amino acids (magenta balls) that folds into a compact 3D protein (lower right, pink). (Graphic adapted from the National Science Foundation (NSF) image)

Synthetic...Read more about Retooling the translation machine could expand the chemical repertoire of cells

Enrique Iglesia, Theodore Vermeulen Chair in Chemical Engineering emeritus and Professor of the...Read more about University of California scientist Enrique Iglesia wins prestigious Royal Society of Chemistry Prize

The Pew Charitable Trusts and the Alexander and Margaret Stewart Trust have announced the 2023 class of the Pew-Stewart Scholars Program for Cancer Research. Our congratulations goes to Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology,...Read more about Ziyang Zhang named a Pew-Stewart Scholar selected to advance cutting-edge cancer research

Prof. Karthik Shekhar with 2023 President of the ChemE Car Club Matthew Moy during the College's graduation ceremony in May 2023. Photo courtesy of Matthew Moy.

The College of Chemistry is delighted to annouce that...Read more about Karthik Shekhar awarded 2023 teaching awards

Professor Omar Yaghi receives a medal and diploma from members of the Wilhelm Exner Foundation during a banquet in May 2023 in Vienna, Austria. Photo Jana Madzigon, courtesy of the Wilhelm Exner Foundation.

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