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Dean Toste, Professor of Chemistry and a Faculty Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, has been awarded the Humboldt Research Award. Professor Toste was nominated for this award by Prof. Dr. Dirk Trauner...Read more about Professor Dean Toste recipient of prestigious Humboldt Research Award

When our new chancellor, Carol Christ, came on board this last summer she announced five goals for UC Berkeley. Chancellor Christ's goal of enhancing the student experience is also a top goal for us here at the College of Chemistry!Read more about Students enjoy new umbrella tables on the plaza

Department of Chemistry FSA Leslie Dietterick is the October 2017 recipient of the Chemistry Achievement Prize. Leslie has worked in the Department of Chemistry for over two years and is a Faculty Support...Read more about Leslie Dietterick recipient of the Chemistry Achievement Prize

Scientists were treated to near-simultaneous observations by separate instruments: One set of Earth-based detectors measured the signature of a cataclysmic event sending ripples through the fabric of space-time, and a space-based detector measured the gamma-ray signature of a high-energy...Read more about Scientists decode origin of universe’s heavy elements in light from neutron star merger

Behind the headlines was the work of two Berkeley Lab groups specializing in developing tools and applications for moving and managing data and allowing scientists around the world to access and analyze the information.Read more about Berkeley Lab Software Helps 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics

Berkeley Lab researchers pursue low-cost, efficient technologies for hydrogen generation.Read more about Reimagining Hydrogen: A Small Molecule With Large-Scale Ideas

Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have engineered a new way to deliver CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technology inside cells and have demonstrated in mice that the...Read more about CRISPR-Gold fixes Duchenne muscular dystrophy mutation in mice

Our students are amazing in the Chemistry and Biology departments. They become world class researchers, go on to start life-changing companies and so much more.Read more about Chemistry students seek crowd funding for educational board game

Beauty of chemistry brought to light in amazing new video series by Yan Liang. (Image courtesy of Wenting Zhu/Envisioning Chemistry.)Read more about Discovering art in chemistry

The University of California, Berkeley has joined forces with pharmaceutical giant Novartis to establish a new research collaboration aimed at unlocking difficult drug targets to accelerate the discovery of new medicines in areas such as infectious diseases and cancer.Read more about Novartis and UC Berkeley collaborate to tackle ‘undruggable’ disease targets