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CIFAR, a leading international research organization which funds outstanding early-career researchers and provides opportunities for mentorship and collaboration, has named Assistant Professor of Chemistry Ashok...Read more about Ashok Ajoy announced as a CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar

Prof. David Limmer's Donal S. Noyce prize certifictate and medal. (photo courtesy of Prof. Limmer.)

The College of Chemistry is pleased to announce that Assistant Professor of Chemistry David...Read more about David Limmer awarded 2022 Donald S. Noyce Undergraduate Teaching Prize

The College of Chemistry is pleased to announce that Omar M. Yaghi, UC Berkeley James and Neeltje Tretter Chair Professor of Chemistry, has been elected a member of the American Academy...Read more about Omar Yaghi elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina

John Hartwig during his presentation in Darmstadt, Germany for the 2022 Emanuel Merck Lectureship. (Photo courtesy of Merck KGaA.)

Merck KGaA, a leading science and technology company located in Darmstadt,...Read more about 2022 Emanuel Merck Lectureship awarded to John F. Hartwig

Markita del Carpio Landry, UC Berkeley assistant professor of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has been named the inaugural recipient of the Philomathia Prize. (Photo: Marge d'Wylde, College of Chemistry)

We are delighted to announce that...Read more about Nanobiotechnologist selected for inaugural Philomathia Prize

Arlene Blum (Ph.D. '71, Chem) climbed Mount Everest in late 1976 while she was also writing a scientific paper about dangerous chemicals in children’s pajamas. (Photo courtesy Arlene Blum)

In 1977, three months after Berkeley scientist Arlene Blum climbed Mount Everest...Read more about Pioneering mountaineer and Berkeley chemist continues quest to reduce harmful chemicals

The College welcomes Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellows Conner Harper and Jacob Spies.

The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation has announced its 2022 class of...Read more about College of Chemistry postdocs named 2022 Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellows

An artist’s rendering of a crewed Martian biomanufactory powered by photovoltaics and capable of synthesizing food and pharmaceuticals, manufacturing biopolymers and recycling biological waste. (Artwork credit: Davian Ho, UC Berkeley)

The high efficiency, light weight...Read more about Solar beats nuclear at many potential settlement sites on Mars

Chancellor's Professor Judith Klinman was this year's G.N. Lewis guest lecturer at the College of Chemistry. Prof. Klinman discussed her remarkable career of over five decades of chemical research and...Read more about At the interface of quantum and classical behavior in enzyme catalysis