It is my pleasure to share this report celebrating the 25th anniversary of Tan Kah Kee Hall at UC Berkeley and honoring the community of alumni and friends whose partnership helped make this extraordinary structure a reality. Dedicated in 1997, Tan Kah Kee Hall is the...Read more about Celebrating 25 years of groundbreaking research at Tan Kah Kee Hall
Carolyn Bertozzi as a young professor at UC Berkeley. (Photo: courtesy of College of Chemistry)
Carolyn Bertozzi, a professor at Stanford University who today shared the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, spent her formative and most creative years at UC Berkeley.
David Schaffer, Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Bioengineering, Molecular and Cell Biology, and the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute at U.C. Berkeley, gave a presentation during homecoming on the future of gene therapies and stem cell therapies. Viewed as the next...Read more about Meet our faculty: David Schaffer, pioneer in bioengineering and gene therapies
Plastics made from polyethylene (white strands), such as the milk bottle shown in background, can now be broken down into smaller molecules — propylene — that are valuable for making another type of plastic, polypropylene. Click image for more detailed caption. (Illustration: Brandon...Read more about Process converts polyethylene bags, plastics to polymer building blocks
Article highlights the program that is being run to improve deveristy, equity, and inclusion in the College of Chemistry Story written for the Spring/Summer 2022 Catalyst magazine about the graduate student diversity program at the College.Read more about Building a community of belonging
Professor Omar Yaghi in his office. Photo College of Chemistry.
Imagine a technology that could remove planet-warming emissions from smokestacks, turn moisture in the air into drinking water and transform carbon dioxide into clean energy.