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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....Read more about Long Group shows PAFs selectively extract lanthanides & actinides.

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.Read more about Message from the Dean

10 Berkeley grad students will face off against each other on March 28 for a chance to compete in the UC-wide Grad Slam.

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Jennifer Doudna shares 2016 Canada Gairdner International Awards with four others for discovering and re-engineering the CRISPR-Cas9 system.

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Alex Pines Lab-developed tool could help scientists improve catalysts, liquid-crystal displays, and more.Read more about 'Disruptive Device’ brings xenon-NMR to fragile materials