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Image: Looking toward Tan Kah Kee Hall (l) and Campbell Hall (r) from the mining circle (9/9/20). Photo by Pete Rosos for Berkeleyside

This event happened on September 9th, 2020.

The sky is orange because longer wavelength light (reds and oranges) are...Read more about Chemistry of the orange sky

Peidong Yang, S.K. and Angela Chan Distinguished Professor of Energy and Professor of Chemistry, has been recognized as one of three laureates of the 2020...Read more about Peidong Yang awarded 2020 Global Energy Prize

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Carol Burns (Ph.D. '87, Chem) executive officer for the Deputy Director for Science, Technology & Engineering at Los Alamos National Laboratory, was selected as the recipient of the 2021 American Chemical Society’s (ACS) Francis P....Read more about Alumna Carol Burns receives Garvan-Olin Medal

In a new video from Ron Cohen, UC Berkeley Professor of Chemistry and Earth and Planetary Sciences, the remarkable change in our atmosphere with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic is explored. Cohen postulates what the world would be like with fewer CO₂ emissions.Read more about Ron Cohen talks about the Beacon project

The College is pleased to announce C. Judson King's A History of Berkeley Chemical Engineering: Pairing Engineering and Science is now available on eScholarship, Berkeley's flagship scholarly repository,...Read more about Your weekend read: History of chemical engineering at Berkeley

Dean Douglas Clark of the College of Chemistry at UC Berkeley has announced that Anne Baranger, Teaching Professor in the Department of Chemistry, will serve as the College’s first...Read more about Anne Baranger announced as inaugural Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

(l to r) Coreshell Technologies' Roger Basu (B.S. '06, Chem; M.S. '08, Materials Sci Eng), Jose Rodriguez, intern (B.A. '20, Phys) and Jonathan Tan (B.S. '06, ChemE) are seen at one of the company's labs in Richmond, California. Courtesy Coreshell Technologies....Read more about Alumni created startup aims to tackle battery degradation in electric cars

Atom probe tomography determines the so-far undiscovered sequences that exist in mixed-metal MOFs (carbon = grey, oxygen = white, metals = blue, green, pink and orange) Source: © Science/AAAS...Read more about Hidden atomic patterns discovered in mixed-metal MOFs

Kwabena Bediako, the Cupola Era Assistant Professor of Chemistry at UC Berkeley, has been announced as a...Read more about Kwabena Bediako joins CIFAR research programs