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Professor Jeffrey Reimer is being recognized for outstanding contributions to chemical engineering education based on accomplishments in classroom teaching, course development, authorship of teaching texts, and departmental chairmanship, as well as excellence in research.Read more about Berkeley’s Jeffrey Reimer will receive AIChE’s Warren K. Lewis Award for ChE education

CBE undergraduate student Luisa Dell has been named a recipient of the highly selective national award symposium for undergraduate researchers.Read more about CBE student Luisa Dell among recipients of 'Future Leaders in Chemical Engineering' award

Peidong Yang and fellow Berkeley Lab scientists have developed “multielement ink” – a new semiconducting material that could enable a more sustainable approach to microelectronics manufacturing.Read more about Accelerating sustainable semiconductors with ‘multielement ink’

Professor Alanna Schepartz and colleagues named recipients of the first cohort of ARC Innovation Investigators. Arc Institute scientists receive no-strings-attached funding to tackle their most important ideas.Read more about Arc Institute announces new cohort of Investigators to pursue curiosity-driven research

UC Berkeley is once again the No. 1 public school in the country, tied with UCLA, according to the newest American college rankings by U.S. News and World Report.Read more about 'U.S. News' ranks UC Berkeley top public school in the country

Jennifer Doudna is one of 60 Nobel Prize winners captured by renowned German photographer Herlinde Koelbl. Also featured in this exhibit are college alumna Frances Arnold and former professor Carolyn Bertozzi.Read more about Nobelists show their hands in photo exhibit by noted German photographer

In a Times.com article entitled 'A World Renowned Chemist Wants to Suck Water, and Carbon, Out of the Air', Omar Yaghi discusses his MOF water harvesting technology and his company Atoco.Read more about Omar Yaghi featured in Time.com article on climate change

The American Chemical Society (ACS) has announced Chris Chang and Michelle Chang as recipients of ACS National Awards for 2024.Read more about Chris and Michelle Chang receive 2024 ACS National Awards

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