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Professor Tom Maimone of UC Berkeley has been named the recipient of the 2024 Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award For Organic Synthesis.Read more about Maimone wins 2024 Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award For Organic Synthesis

Co-investigators Ziyang Zhang of UC Berkeley and John Chorba of UCSF are among the recipients of the Bakar Fellows Spark Awards. New treatments for cancer and heart disease and new tools to remove tumors are among seven innovations selected this year to receive a Bakar Fellows Spark Award, which...Read more about Bakar Fellows program selects seven projects for Spark Awards

Heathcock Hall, a new academic building, will provide a mix of flexible and operationally resilient labs, non-lab workspaces, offices and other meeting spaces for researchers, faculty and students across multiple disciplines affiliated with the College of Chemistry.Read more about Flurry of major campus construction projects to mark new academic year

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have discovered molecular behavior in supercooled liquids that represents a hidden phase transition between a liquid and a solid.Read more about Scientists theorize a hidden phase transition between liquid and a solid

UC Berkeley experts taught ChatGPT how to quickly create datasets on difficult-to-aggregate research about certain materials that can be used to fight climate change, according to a new paper published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.Read more about ChatGPT accelerates chemistry discovery for climate response, study shows

The College of Chemistry is pleased to announce that Assistant Professor of Chemistry Michael Zuerch has received a prestigious DOE Early Career Research Program Award for his research entitled "Ultrafast mechanisms of chirality control in electronic materials".Read more about Michael Zuerch receives prestigious DOE Early Career Research Program Award

Scientists engineered microbes to make the ingredients for recyclable plastics – replacing finite, polluting petrochemicals with sustainable alternatives.Read more about Making Renewable, Infinitely Recyclable Plastics Using Bacteria

Photo courtesty of Scialog. Top row: Abhishek Shrivastava, Kai Zhang, Will Ludington, Karthik Shekhar, Mei Shen. 2nd row: Heather Bean, Yanjiao Zhou, Chun-Jun Guo, Annie Ciernia, Christopher Whidbey, Stephanie Cologna. 3rd row: Leah Pyter, Sarah MacEachern, Kendall Corbin, Dhara...Read more about 8 Teams Win Funding in Final Year of Scialog: Microbiome, Neurobiology and Disease

Prof. Ajoy was recognized for his substantial contributions to solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance in view of his creativity, intellectual brilliance, productivity and further promise in scientific research.Read more about Ashok Ajoy named 2023 recipient of Ampere Prize and Anatole Abragam Prize

Photo: NODE (Normalization of Diversity and Equity) members: Marisol Navarro, Julia Martin, Angel Gonzalez-Valero, Abigail Hinojosa, Andre Sanchez, Vanessa Gonzalez.

The College of Chemistry and the student group NODE (Normalization of Diversity and...Read more about CD Lounge (Celebrating Diversity Lounge) officially opens