The central mission of the College of Chemistry is to advance society through education and research, and we have made it our responsibility to fulfill this mission, year in and year out, for more than 140 years.
Our two departments provide fundamental and applied studies of an outstanding caliber. The remarkable breadth and depth of resources available to our students readies them as chemists and chemical engineers to address society’s most urgent 21st-century issues.
College faculty have been leaders at the frontiers of knowledge since 1872. Current pioneering research includes premier programs in catalysis, thermodynamics, chemical biology, atmospheric chemistry, the development of polymer, optical and semiconductor materials, and nanoscience, among others.
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Bryan McCloskey awarded grant for project to generate fundamental knowledge in the field of electrochemical engineering that is critical to a number of energy conversion and storage technologies.Read more about McCloskey selected for NSF Career Award
Jeffrey Long's research team with support of Bakar Fellows program focuses on new advances in CO2 capture.Read more about A Chain Reaction to Spare the Air
CIRES/NOAA scientist studies atmospheric particles and climate, air quality.Read more about Cohen group alum Anne Perring receives prestigious PECASE award
UC Berkeley scientists have discovered simple CRISPR systems similar to CRISPR-Cas9 — a gene-editing tool that has revolutionized biology — in previously unexplored bacteria that have eluded efforts to grow them in the laboratory.Read more about Compact CRISPR systems found in some of world’s smallest microbes
Chemist and nanotechnology pioneer Paul Alivisatos, bioengineer Amy Herr and chemical engineer Enrique Iglesia – were among 175 distinguished academic inventors...Read more about Berkeley innovators named fellows of National Academy of Inventors
The Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA) has awarded one of three 2016 Academy Prizes to Berkeley chemistry professor Omar Yaghi.Read more about Yaghi awarded Turkish Academy of Sciences Prize
The New England Section of the American Chemical Society (NESACS) has awarded Berkeley chemistry professor Gabor Somorjai its prestigious 2016 Richards Medal.Read more about Somorjai wins 2016 Richards Medal
The Verge talks with Jennifer Doudna to discuss just what CRISPR might mean for the future of science, and disease research.Read more about Gene editing will transform cancer treatment
Chemistry professor Tom Maimone has been selected as one of two recipients of the prestigious 2016 Novartis Early Career Award in Organic Chemistry.Read more about Maimone wins Novartis, Bristol-Myers Squibb awards
