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Tuberculosis is caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, a bacteria with a cell wall thick enough to block out most drugs. Mireille Kamariza designed a molecule that embeds into that wall and lights up — researchers only need a microscope and a reagent to see it. Photo by Fred Tomlin...Read more about Alumna tackles tuberculosis with new portable diagnostic tool

The Berkeley lab team that discovered elements 104 and 105, April 1969. From left: Matti Nurmia, James Harris, Kari Eskola, Pirkko Eskola, and Albert Ghiorso. (Photo: Berkeley Lab)

The discovery of an element is a rare occurrence. Defying racial and academic expectations...Read more about James Andrew Harris and element discovery at Berkeley Lab

John Markels, President of Vaccines, Merck (photo courtesy of Merck).

The College is delighted to announce that John Markels (Ph.D. '93, ChemE), President of Vaccines at...Read more about John Markels announced as new College of Chemistry Advisory Board Chair

Professor Arnold speaks on the importance of science during a press conference.

President-elect Joe Biden on Saturday introduced key members of his White House science team, including his nominee for director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP)....Read more about Alumna and Nobel Laureate Frances Arnold tapped by President Biden to be co-chair of the President's Council of Advisers on Science and Technology

Professor Alanna Schepartz moves to UC Berkeley for new scientific opportunities Photo: Yale University.

The lab at Yale in boxes before the move to San...Read more about Alanna Schepartz makes a cross-country voyage in search of new academic adventures

Michael Zuerch, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, will helm a new interdisciplinary science initiative as part of the University of California's (UC) $19M grant program in support of research focused on improving the lives of Californians. Zuerch’s interdisiplinary team has...Read more about UC awards funding for interfacial science initiative

In 2017, radiochemistry graduate student Mark Straub left the comfortable academic environs of UC Berkeley and moved to the middle of New Mexico, where he spent his summer working full time at Los Alamos National Laboratory (...Read more about UC Berkeley grad takes a closer look at nuclear forensics chemistry

John Hartwig, Henry Rapoport Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, has been awarded the 2021 ACS...Read more about John Hartwig receives the Arthur C. Cope Award

From left: Experimental images of thulium-doped avalanching nanoparticles separated by 300 nanometers; at right, simulations of the same material. (Credit: Berkeley Lab and Columbia University)

Since the earliest microscopes, scientists have been on a quest to build...Read more about Shine On: Avalanching Nanoparticles Break Barriers to Imaging Cells in Real Time

Christopher J. Chang, Class of 1942 Chair Professor of Chemistry and Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of Berkeley, has been awarded the Humboldt Research Award. The award, honoring internationally recognized researchers, includes a stay at the Max Planck...Read more about Professor Christopher J. Chang awarded the Humboldt Research Award