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Flurry of major campus construction projects to mark new academic year

August 21, 2023
Heathcock Hall, a new academic building, will provide a mix of flexible and operationally resilient labs, non-lab workspaces, offices and other meeting spaces for researchers, faculty and students across multiple disciplines affiliated with the College of Chemistry.Read more about Flurry of major campus construction projects to mark new academic year

Scientists theorize a hidden phase transition between liquid and a solid

August 15, 2023
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have discovered molecular behavior in supercooled liquids that represents a hidden phase transition between a liquid and a solid.Read more about Scientists theorize a hidden phase transition between liquid and a solid

ChatGPT accelerates chemistry discovery for climate response, study shows

August 7, 2023
UC Berkeley experts taught ChatGPT how to quickly create datasets on difficult-to-aggregate research about certain materials that can be used to fight climate change, according to a new paper published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.Read more about ChatGPT accelerates chemistry discovery for climate response, study shows

Michael Zuerch receives prestigious DOE Early Career Research Program Award

August 4, 2023
The College of Chemistry is pleased to announce that Assistant Professor of Chemistry Michael Zuerch has received a prestigious DOE Early Career Research Program Award for his research entitled "Ultrafast mechanisms of chirality control in electronic materials".Read more about Michael Zuerch receives prestigious DOE Early Career Research Program Award

8 Teams Win Funding in Final Year of Scialog: Microbiome, Neurobiology and Disease

July 27, 2023

Photo courtesty of Scialog. Top row: Abhishek Shrivastava, Kai Zhang, Will Ludington, Karthik Shekhar, Mei Shen. 2nd row: Heather Bean, Yanjiao Zhou, Chun-Jun Guo, Annie Ciernia, Christopher Whidbey, Stephanie Cologna. 3rd row: Leah Pyter, Sarah MacEachern, Kendall Corbin, Dhara...Read more about 8 Teams Win Funding in Final Year of Scialog: Microbiome, Neurobiology and Disease

Making Renewable, Infinitely Recyclable Plastics Using Bacteria

July 27, 2023
Scientists engineered microbes to make the ingredients for recyclable plastics – replacing finite, polluting petrochemicals with sustainable alternatives.Read more about Making Renewable, Infinitely Recyclable Plastics Using Bacteria

Ashok Ajoy named 2023 recipient of Ampere Prize and Anatole Abragam Prize

July 26, 2023
Prof. Ajoy was recognized for his substantial contributions to solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance in view of his creativity, intellectual brilliance, productivity and further promise in scientific research.Read more about Ashok Ajoy named 2023 recipient of Ampere Prize and Anatole Abragam Prize

CD Lounge (Celebrating Diversity Lounge) officially opens

July 18, 2023

Photo: NODE (Normalization of Diversity and Equity) members: Marisol Navarro, Julia Martin, Angel Gonzalez-Valero, Abigail Hinojosa, Andre Sanchez, Vanessa Gonzalez.

The College of Chemistry and the student group NODE (Normalization of Diversity and...Read more about CD Lounge (Celebrating Diversity Lounge) officially opens

Hand-held water harvester powered by sunlight could combat water scarcity

July 6, 2023

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