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A study published in Environmental Health Perspectives outlines a new method for assessing how synthetic chemicals and pollutants may contribute to breast cancer risk.

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Study finds gender stereotyping in which men are more strongly associated with science than women has been found in some unlikely countries.

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At LBNL's Molecular Foundry, two robotic chemical-synthesizing machines have joined the search for new antimicrobial compounds.

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The Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering is pleased to announce that Markita Landry, currently a postdoc in MIT’s chemical engineering department, will join the faculty as an assistant professor on July 1, 2016.Read more about Markita Landry to join CBE faculty

New Solar Energy Research Center will foster development of fuels from sunlight; building will be named for Steven Chu, former Berkeley Lab Director and Energy Secretary

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Five new faculty innovators have joined the ranks of the Bakar Fellows Program

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The chemistry department is pleased to announce the appointment of David Limmer as Assistant Professor of Chemistry beginning July 1, 2016.Read more about David Limmer to join chemistry faculty

Two College of Chemistry professors are among the nine winners of the 2015 Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award, the Department of Energy (DOE)’s highest scientific honor.

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A group of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering students won a second place award in UC Berkeley’s Big Ideas competition.Read more about CBE students help bring biofuels to campus through Big Ideas competition

Chemistry graduate student Leah Rubin Shen will finish her Ph.D. this summer and then head to Washington, DC, for a one-year adventure as one of two American Chemical Society Congressional Fellows.Read more about Chemistry grad student named ACS fellow