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Professor Emeritus William Lester, a chemist, and educator at the University of California, Berkeley, was recently inducted into the exclusive Hall of Fame for 2020 by the International Association of Top Professionals. He will be recognized at a ceremony in December, 2020.Read more about Professor Emeritus William Lester inducted into the IAOTP hall of fame

BERKELEY, Calif. (KGO) -- A single image helped alert the world to a once-in-a-lifetime side effect of the COVID-19 crisis. It was a satellite map, showing a dramatic drop in pollution levels over China after the country began to effectively quarantine its population. Shortly afterward...Read more about Coronavirus impact: Maps show pollution has dropped in the Bay Area since shelter-in-place orders

The National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program is a prestigious grant awarded annually by the National Science Foundation to approximately 2,000 students pursuing research-based Master's and doctoral degrees in the natural, social, and engineering sciences at US...Read more about NSF Graduate Research Fellowships announced

Merle Randall is 4th from right in the front row. 1917 in front of Gilman Hall.

By G. K. Rollefson, G. E. K. Branch, and G. E. Gibson

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If humans ever hope to colonize Mars, the settlers will need to manufacture on-planet a huge range of organic compounds, from fuels to drugs, that are too expensive to ship from Earth. University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) chemists...Read more about On Mars or Earth, biohybrid can turn CO2 into new products

College of Chemistry faculty in 1917. Axel Olson is seated on the left in the front row.

By G. E. Gibson T. D. Stewart G. K. Rollefson

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William Conger Morgan was born in Albany, New York, June 21, 1874. After receiving the degree of A.B. from Yale University, he was awarded...Read more about William Conger Morgan