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The UC Berkeley ChemE squad has won the 2017 National Chemical Engineering Jeopardy Championship at the AIChE Student Conference. This version of the...Read more about Berkeley team wins 2017 National ChemE Jeopardy Championship

Almost 300 science writers and journalists from 70 countries spent Sunday getting to know UC Berkeley's best scientific minds as part of the five-day World Conference of Science...Read more about World science journalists explore Berkeley’s best

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