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Terry Rosen—alum, donor, commencement speaker and serial biotech entrepreneur—has launched another successful start up.Read more about College alum launches another successful biotech startup

Michelle Chang has been awarded the Pfizer Award in Enzyme Chemistry. Jennifer Doudna has received The Biopolymers Murray Goodman Memorial Prize.Read more about Chang and Doudna win 2016 ACS Biological Chemistry Awards

Chemistry professor Stephen Leone has won the 2017 American Chemical Society's Ahmed...Read more about Leone wins 2017 ACS Zewail Award

UC Berkeley alumna Alison Narayan wants to turn the enzymes used by cyanobacteria to produce a life-threatening paralysis poison—saxitoxin—into machines that build lifesaving drugs.Read more about Alison Narayan, Sarpong group alumna, named one of C&EN Talented 12

This group of skilled young 'operatives' has been covertly using chemistry to safeguard the planet.Read more about Ke Xu named one of C&EN's talented 12

Metal-organic frameworks provide a new platform for solving the structure of hard-to-study samples.Read more about A New Way to Display the 3-D Structure of Molecules

For a simple compound that is central to almost every aspect of our existence, water remains fiendishly difficult to understand.Read more about Saykally continues quest for “universal first-principles” model of water

Chemistry professor Graham Fleming has been named an Honorable Foreign Member of the Chemical Society of Japan.Read more about Fleming honored by Japanese chemical society

Fire-fighting foam containing highly fluorinated chemicals is contaminating drinking water supplies around many of the nation’s military bases, airports and industrial sites, according to a new study by UC Berkeley and Harvard University researchers.

...Read more about Cancer-causing chemical in drinking water traced to fire-fighting foam

To appreciate the magnitude of the advance that Zewail introduced to chemistry, one has to ponder the minuteness of the time intervals that he could routinely employ with his special lasers: a...Read more about In honor of Ahmed Zewail (1946-2016)