The central mission of the College of Chemistry is to advance society through education and research, and we have made it our responsibility to fulfill this mission, year in and year out, for more than 140 years.
Our two departments provide fundamental and applied studies of an outstanding caliber. The remarkable breadth and depth of resources available to our students readies them as chemists and chemical engineers to address society’s most urgent 21st-century issues.
College faculty have been leaders at the frontiers of knowledge since 1872. Current pioneering research includes premier programs in catalysis, thermodynamics, chemical biology, atmospheric chemistry, the development of polymer, optical and semiconductor materials, and nanoscience, among others.
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The College of Chemistry is consistently ranked as one of the best places on earth to learn, teach, and create new tools in the chemical sciences. This is no accident. It’s the direct result of exceptional scholarship as well as thousands and thousands of donations from our loyal alumni and friends.
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Xu and fellow Berkeley Lab researchers develop nanoparticles that can carry therapeutics across the brain blood barrier. Photo by Roy KaltschmidtRead more about Nanocarriers may carry new hope for brain cancer therapy
The Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering welcomes their newest professor, Kranthi Mandadapu.Read more about Mandadapu joins the CBE faculty
Two new studies from UC Berkeley should give scientists who use CRISPR-Cas9 for genome engineering greater confidence that they won't inadvertently edit the wrong DNA....Read more about CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing: check three times, cut once
Yaghi study challenges prevailing view on how metal organic frameworks store gasesRead more about A New Way to Look at MOFs
A new gene-editing tool might create an ethical morass — or it might make revising nature seem natural.
Read the article.Read more about The Crispr Quandry
Chemistry professor Evan Miller has won a Young Chemical Biologist Award 2015 from the International Chemical Biology Society (ICBS).
As one of four awardees, Miller gave a podium presentation during the special Rising Stars session at the 2015 joint meeting of ICBS and the European...Read more about Miller wins ICBS Young Chemical Biologist Award 2015
A jury of representatives from BASF, Volkswagen and from academia selected Dr. McCloskey for his outstanding research results in the...Read more about BASF and Volkswagen Present “Science Award Electrochemistry” to CBE Professor Bryan McCloskey
Berkeley Lab researchers co-author science article proposing Unified Microbiome Initiative.
...Read more about Scientists call for national effort to understand and harness earth’s microbes for health, energy, agriculture, and environment
Jeff Long and Berkeley Lab researchers find a better way to store natural gas as a transportation fuel
...Read more about On the road to ANG vehicles
