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Sandia National Laboratories has named College of Chemistry alumna, Mercedes Taylor ( Ph.D., Chem, 2018) and Chen Wang its first Jill Hruby Fellows. The honorees have each been awarded a three-year postdoctoral fellowship in technical leadership, comprising national security-relevant research...Read more about Sandia Labs names alumna Mercedes Taylor one of the first Jill Hruby Fellows

Nitash Balsara is one of a group of scientists who have received a U.S. Secretary of Energy Achievement Award in Scientific and Operational Leadership for his research work with the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research Strategic and Operations (JCESR). JCESR is a DOE project working on...Read more about CBE Professor Nitash Balsara is recognized for his research by the Secretary of Energy

Assistant professors Ke Xu of chemistry and Denis Titov of molecular and cell biology — were among 89 recipients of “high-risk, high-reward” grants announced last week by the National Institutes of Health.Read more about Asst Professor Ke Xu recipient of high-risk, high-reward research grants from the NIH

M. thermoacetica first made its debut as the first non-photosensitive bacterium to carry out artificial photosynthesis in a study led by Peidong Yang, a professor in UC Berkeley’s College of Chemistry. By attaching light-absorbing nanoparticles made of cadmium sulfide (CdS) to the...Read more about Harvesting solar fuels through a bacterium’s unusual appetite for gold

As scientists march closer to using CRISPR gene editing to treat diseases, the U.S. Department of Defense is prepping for the possibility of a more nefarious use of CRISPR: its weaponization to harm humans, animals, or crops.Read more about New CRISPR inhibitors found with help from U.S. Defense Department funding

Frances H. Arnold, the Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry at Caltech, is one of three winners of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.Read more about Chemistry Nobel goes to UC Berkeley Ph.D. Frances Arnold

UC Berkeley's College of Chemistry was well represented among the winners of this year's ACS National Awards.Read more about College of Chemistry faculty and alums among ACS 2019 National Award winners

Doctoral candidate Osowiecki is among 8 UC Berkeley graduate students named 2019 Siebel Scholars.Read more about Chemistry Ph.D. Candidate Wojciech Osowiecki named 2019 Siebel Scholar

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Elsevier and the Board of Executive Editors of Elsevier’s Tetrahedron journal series have announced that the 2018 Tetrahedron Prize for Creativity in Organic Chemistry has been awarded to Professors...Read more about John Hartwig awarded 2018 Tetrahedron Prize for Creativity in Organic Chemistry

The promise of Quantum Computers will unlock a new dimension of computing capabilities that are not possible today with classical computers, regardless of the size, compute power, or parallelization.Read more about Atom Computing receives VC funding to create a radical new paradigm in quantum computing