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September 16, 2021

Richmond Sarpong receives ACS Edward Leete Award for 2021

Richmond Sarpong

September 15, 2021

Samuel Benedict Christy, first dean of mining and metallurgy

Hearst Mining Building, UC Berkeley

Interior, Hearst Mining Building. (Photo: Joe Parks via Wikimedia Commons)

September 10, 2021

In Memoriam: Philip Schutz

Philip Schutz

The First Faculty in the Dept of Chemical Engineering:

September 7, 2021

Markita Landry awarded Vilcek Prize in Biomedical Science

Markita Landry

August 31, 2021

Kwabena Bediako named Moore Fellow

Kwabena Bediako
The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has named Kwabena Bediako, The Cupola Era Professor in the College of Chemistry, a 2021 Fellow in Materials Synthesis.

August 27, 2021

Team wins competition to make space sugar in NASA competition

chemistry professor Peidong Yang, former postdoc Michael Ross, former graduate student Yifan Li and graduate student Stefano Cestellos-Blanco.

August 26, 2021

Building a better chemical factory—out of microbes

Professor of Chemical Engineering Kristala Jones Prather

Professor Kristala L. Jones Prather. Photo courtesy MIT.

Metabolic engineers have a problem: cells are selfish. The scientists want to use microbes to produce chemical compounds for industrial applications. The microbes prefer to concentrate on their own growth.

Using light-initiated radical reaction to break the carbon-heteroatom bond

Man with blue light

Image courtesy of Chemistry World.

A reaction that kicks out a single nitrogen, oxygen or sulfur atom from six-membered rings using only blue light has been developed by US scientists.

Chris Chang discusses molecular iron electrocatalyst for the reduction of carbon dioxide

Invention Interview with Chris Chang: Molecular Iron Electrocatalyst for the Reduction of Carbon Dioxide (2021)

August 24, 2021

We are all made of the same components

Liliana Rojas

Liliana Rojas is a first-year student majoring in chemical engineering at UC Berkeley. (Photo by Brittany Hosea-Small)

August 23, 2021

Liquid Sunlight: The Evolution of Photosynthetic Biohybrids

Energy innovation utilizing carbon dioxide, air, and water

August 10, 2021

UC Berkeley researchers illuminate material complexity with nonlinear x-ray spectroscopy

Nano letters cover art from the lab of Michael ZuerchOn the Cover: Artist rendering of second harmonic generation spectroscopy in the extreme ultraviolet state. Illustration by Ella Marushenko. (Nano Letters, Vol 21, No 14)

August 5, 2021

John Gofman: Medical school to nuclear chemistry at UC Berkeley

Excerpt from "John ‘Jack’ Gofman. Researcher and Social Activist. ‘Fair-haired Boy’ and ‘Enemy Within’" American Journal of Cardiology, 

John Gofman at Berkeley Lab

August 3, 2021

In Memoriam: Alumna Marjorie (Young) Vold

Alums Marjorie Young Vold and Robert Vold

Alumni Robert Vold (Ph.D. '35, Chem) and Marjorie Vold née Young (Ph.D. '36, Chem). Unknown photographer and date. Photo courtesy Tom Aiken.

Dual-drug therapy shows promise for treating alcohol use disorder

pouring liquor

(Photo: courtesy of UCSF)

A mouth full of microbes: UC Berkeley researchers discover compound that can cause tooth decay

Xray photo of tooth decay

UC Berkeley researchers have discovered a compound that promotes bacterial adhesion on teeth, which can lead to dental plaque and cavities. Photo courtesy of Jonathan Borba (Unsplash)

August 2, 2021

ExxonMobil collaborates on discovery of new material to enhance carbon capture technology

Researching the development of a sustainable energy future

Alumna Susan Solomon joins Pontifical Academy of Science

Susan Solomon

Photo of Professor Solomon courtesy MIT.

July 25, 2021

John Maxson Stillman

Excerpt from biography by F.O. Koenig in Isis, Vol. 34, No. 2 (Autumn, 1942), pp. 142-146

John Maxsom Stillman

July 22, 2021

New Summer Bridge course introduces incoming first-years to chemistry research skills

Summer Bridge students in the lab

Members of the Summer Bridge program preparing to start a lab on "engineering a plastics separation". Photo courtesy of Jade Fostvedt.