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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

Jennifer Doudna and fellow CRISPR scientists are strongly discouraging their colleagues from attempting any germline editing in humans.

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Chemistry professor Richmond Sarpong is the winner of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Synthetic Chemistry Award for 2015.Read more about Sarpong wins 2015 RSC Synthetic Organic Chemistry Award

Berkeley researchers develop breakthrough technique for non-invasive nano-scale imaging.

Read the full article.Read more about Ginsberg's CLAIRE technique brings electron microscopy to soft materials

Three College of Chemistry assistant professors, chemistry’s Evan Miller and Ke Xu, along with CBE’s Wenjun Zhang, are the recipients of awards from the Hellman Fellows Fund.Read more about Three CoC professors receive awards from Hellman Fellows Fund

Whether you’re brainy, brawny or both, you may someday benefit from a drug found to rejuvenate aging brain and muscle tissue.

Read the full article.Read more about Drug perks up old muscles and aging brains