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In a new study, appearing in the November 2017 issue of Nature Materials, a research team led by UC Berkeley Associate Professor of Chemistry and Physics, Naomi S. Ginsberg, has announced the development and...Read more about Tracking long-range energy flow on its native nanometer and picosecond scales

Assistant Professor Tom Maimone has been named as one of three recipients of the 2017 Eli Lilly Grantee Award.Read more about Maimone wins 2017 Eli Lilly Grantee Award

UC Berkeley ranked first in chemistry and retains its standing as the world’s No. 1 public and fourth-best university overall in U.S. News & World Report.Read more about UC Berkeley rated world’s top public and fourth-best overall by U.S. News

Nobel Laureate Yuan T. Lee, an emeritus professor at Berkeley who won the Nobel Prize for research in particle chemistry in 1986, and was the first Taiwanese Nobel Prize laureate, will speak as part of a group of laureates at the...Read more about Nobel Laureate Yuan T. Lee to speak on campus at international symposium exploring Nobel-caliber research

Podcast on the development of Crispr, and the ethical questions raised by new genome editing techniques.Read more about Book Club: A Crack in Creation

Researchers have discovered how Cas proteins are able to recognize their target locations with such great specificity.Read more about The CRISPR target-recognition mechanism

Dean Toste, Professor of Chemistry and a Faculty Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, has been awarded the Humboldt Research Award. Professor Toste was nominated for this award by Prof. Dr. Dirk Trauner...Read more about Professor Dean Toste recipient of prestigious Humboldt Research Award

When our new chancellor, Carol Christ, came on board this last summer she announced five goals for UC Berkeley. Chancellor Christ's goal of enhancing the student experience is also a top goal for us here at the College of Chemistry!Read more about Students enjoy new umbrella tables on the plaza

Department of Chemistry FSA Leslie Dietterick is the October 2017 recipient of the Chemistry Achievement Prize. Leslie has worked in the Department of Chemistry for over two years and is a Faculty Support...Read more about Leslie Dietterick recipient of the Chemistry Achievement Prize

Scientists were treated to near-simultaneous observations by separate instruments: One set of Earth-based detectors measured the signature of a cataclysmic event sending ripples through the fabric of space-time, and a space-based detector measured the gamma-ray signature of a high-energy...Read more about Scientists decode origin of universe’s heavy elements in light from neutron star merger