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Paul VerNooy (Ph.D. Chem 1991) and five fellow scientists from DuPont (including Alan Carroll, Kenneth Hang, Brian Laughlin, Kurt Mikeska, and Charlie Torardi) have received the 2018 Heroes award from the American Chemical Society (ACS). The DuPont scientists are honored for inventing...Read more about ACS awards alum Paul VerNooy and DuPont colleagues with Heroes of Chemistry award

Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are a revolutionary new class of crystalline solids that can be designed to trap myriad kinds of matter, including greenhouse gases, or to be used as nanosized drug carriers. They can also pull water from desert air.Read more about Meet Metal-Organic Frameworks, Chemistry’s New Miracle Materials

Two years after biochemist Jennifer Doudna helped introduce the world to the gene-editing tool known as Crispr, a 14-year-old from New Jersey turned it loose on a petri dish full of lung cancer cells, disrupting their ability to multiply.Read more about Why the gene editors of tomorrow need to study ethics today

Professor Matt Francis and associate professor Tom Maimone have been named 2019 Arthur C. Cope Scholars by the American Chemical Society. Established in 1984,...Read more about Francis and Maimone win 2019 Arthur C. Cope Scholar Awards

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 2019 Gregori Aminoff Prize in Crystallography to Michael O’Keeffe, Arizona State University, and Omar M. Yaghi, University of California, “for their fundamental contributions to the development of reticular chemistry”.Read more about Professors Omar Yaghi and Michael O’Keeffe receive award from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

Meet Berkeley's new faculty: Rebecca Abergel, nuclear engineering.Read more about Chemistry alum Rebecca Abergel joins nuclear engineering faculty

The three main components of a lithium-ion battery—anode, cathode, and electrolyte—must all be optimized to produce a safe, low-cost, and high-energy product. The cathode has traditionally been the most expensive piece; it stores energy in ordered crystal structures that are based on costly and...Read more about New manganese materials bolster cathode capacity

Professor of Chemistry Richmond Sarpong, and Chairman, President and CEO of Aduro Biotech, Stephen Isaacs, discuss the Aduro-UC Berkeley Underrepresented Postdoctoral Fellowship Program which was launched in 2018. Sarpong is seen here with the first fellowship recipient Alex Rovira.Read more about Aduro Biotech creates new postdoc diversity fellowship at Berkeley

The Rockefeller University has announced that Jennifer Doudna will receive this year's Pearl Meister Greengard Prize, a major international accolade honoring outstanding women scientists.Read more about Jennifer Doudna to receive the 2018 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize

Just about every few months since she was 16, Katherine Welsh, a fundraiser in the College of Chemistry, has given blood. The act of service was second nature to her, as regular as getting her car's oil changed or setting the clocks back for daylight savings.Read more about What kind of person donates a kidney to a stranger?