Five UC Berkeley Ph.D. students have been announced as finalists of this year's Reaxys PhD Prize. The Prize celebrates innovative and rigorous research by ambitious young chemists. The Review Committee examined over 360 entries from around the globe to arrive at the 45 finalists.Read more about 2019 Reaxys PhD Prize winners announced
The world already benefits greatly from space technology, especially in terms of communications, positioning services, Earth observation, and economic activity related to government-funded space programs. With an explosion of more than 2,000 commercial space companies, including those building...Read more about Alum explores the costs of doing business in space
Professor William Lester a chemist and educator at UC Berkeley has been awarded the International Association of Top Professionals (IAOTP) prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award for 2019 for his outstanding leadership and commitment to the field of chemistry. This special honor is given based...Read more about Professor William Lester awarded lifetime achievement award
UCB Chemists using some of the shortest laser pulses available have now been able to resolve the step-by-step process leading to the exploding of a chemical bond, essentially making a movie of the event.Read more about What happens when you explode a chemical bond?
President Donald J. Trump has announced the newest recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). The PECASE is the highest honor bestowed by the United States Government to outstanding scientists and engineers who are beginning their independent...Read more about Tom Maimone and Wenjun Zhang receive Presidential Early Career Awards
Dawn Shaughnessy leads the Nuclear and Radiochemistry Group of the Physics and Life Sciences Directorate at Lawrence Berkeley Livermore Lab and uses the National Ignition Facility to generate some of the most extreme conditions in our solar system for high energy density experiments.Read more about Stellar reactions in a galaxy not so far, far away
This year’s Nano Research Award, which is sponsored by Tsinghua University Press (TUP) and Springer Nature, was presented to two celebrated researchers in Changsha, China on June 23rd. Omar M. Yaghi, the James and Neeltje Tretter Chair Professor of Chemistry at the University of...Read more about Sixth Nano Research Award presented to Xinhe Bao and Omar M. Yaghi
Scientists have long sought to mimic the process by which plants make their own fuel using sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water through artificial photosynthesis devices, but how exactly substances called catalysts work to generate renewable fuel remains a mystery.Read more about Scientists introduce a new framework for artificial photosynthesis
