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The College is saying farewell to Eric Granlund, Shop Supervisor. Eric has been at the College since July 1985, concluding 33 years of service with his retirement this month.Read more about Shop supervisor Eric Granlund retires

The team of Professors Omar Yaghi (UC Berkeley) and Evelyn Wang (MIT) have won the Alternative Water Resources prize, which will be awarded at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City.Read more about Professors Omar Yaghi and Evelyn Wang awarded international water prize

Congratulations to Varsha Desai (Ph.D. Chem '18 ) who has received a 2018 Teaching Effectiveness Award for GSIs which honors a small number of Berkeley graduate student instructors.Read more about Varsha Desai receives Berkeley GSI Teacher award

AIChE has announced that alum Eric Reiner (Ph.D ChemE ’94) recently made a $50k donation to the AIChE Foundation to kick off their LGBTQ+ & Allies Initiative aimed at advancing the inclusiveness of the chemical engineering profession.Read more about Gift from Alum Eric Reiner helps launch AIChE LGBTQ+ & Allies Initiative

The University of California announced today that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has granted patent number 10,000,772 covering the use of CRISPR-Cas9...Read more about Doudna-Charpentier team awarded U.S. patent for CRISPR-Cas9

Breakthrough discovery at the Joint BioEnergy Institute could greatly accelerate the pace of science.Read more about Faster, Cheaper, Better: A New Way to Synthesize DNA

A spectacular new mural was installed this week in the lobby of Pimentel Hall at UC Berkeley’s College of Chemistry. Celebrating the College’s involvement in NASA’s Mars 6 and Mars 7 Mariner missions, the mural sits across from a copy of the infrared spectrometer that was installed in each...Read more about Mars Mariner mural installed in Pimentel Hall

New research on copper could lead to better understanding of role in sleep.Read more about Copper regulates sleep in zebrafish

A UC Berkeley team headed by Omar Yaghi plopped their newest prototype water harvester into the backyard of a tract home in Arizona and started sucking...Read more about Water harvester delivers fresh water from air

UC Berkeley bird lovers, being a class act, decided the names of three peregrine falcon chicks that have taken up residence in a nest atop the landmark Campanile bell tower should be, well, dignified. Meet Berkelium, Californium and Lawrencium....Read more about Campanile peregrine falcon chicks named in popular vote