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Meet CBE student Chun Man Chow and the other 2016 University Medalist runners-up.
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CEO Matt Scullin co-founded Alphabet in 2009 with Peidong Yang after the pair licensed a patent from Berkeley Lab and the university’s intellectual property office.

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Biochemist Jennifer Doudna has been named a foreign member of the prestigious Royal Society, a rare honor for a UC Berkeley faculty member.

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Fuels created by artificial photosynthesis are getting much closer to reality.

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A highly interpenetrated carboxylic acid functionalized porous aromatic framework (PAF) has been demonstrated to undergo selective uptake of neodymium ions over iron and strontium ions, a promising development toward Ln/An group separation in the treatment of fission products.

Jay Keasling among nine Berkeley faculty members elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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Berkeley Lab scientists discover another design principle for building nanostructures

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Dean Clark on the decision to keep the College of Chemistry intact as a single independent unit.

Alex Pines Lab-developed tool could help scientists improve catalysts, liquid-crystal displays, and more.

For remarkable contributions to the understanding of the CRISPR bacterial defense system and the revolutionary discovery that it can be adapted for genome editing.

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A new study led by researchers at UC Berkeley and Clinica de Salud del Valle de Salinas demonstrates how even a short break from certain kinds of makeup, shampoos and lotions can lead to a significant drop in levels of hormone-disrupting chemicals in the body.

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When Vice President Joe Biden dropped by UC San Francisco on Saturday for a wide-ranging discussion of the current state of cancer research, UC Berkeley’s Jennifer Doudna was on hand to emphasize the need to fund basic research as well as clinical research.