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The American Chemical Society has named Chancellor’s Professor of Chemistry, Bioengineering and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Teresa Head-Gordon as an ACS Fellow for 2018. Head-Gordon has been recognized for her development of advanced theoretical and computational models and...Read more about Teresa Head-Gordon named ACS Fellow

Chemist Amy Prieto of Colorado State University discusses her work to commercialize a safer, more customizable batteryRead more about Alum Amy Prieto rethinks lithium-ion batteries with an eye toward storing renewable energy

Dr. Dominik Halter has been awarded a Feodor Lynen fellowship by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, to join the chemistry research group of Professor Jeffrey Long as a postdoctoral researcher. Halter’s research at Berkeley will focus on the development of new metal-organic frameworks...Read more about Feodor Lynen fellow Domink Halter joins research group of Jeffrey Long

Martin Brudermüller, Chairman of the Board and CTO, BASF SE has announced a donation of $7 million to UC Berkeley at the California Research Alliance 2018 Summer Symposium.Read more about BASF donates million toward construction of new UC Berkeley science and engineering hub

A new method from the lab of Jay Keasling promises to revolutionize DNA synthesis with a faster, cheaper, and more accurate approach. Taking inspiration from nature, the team at UC Berkeley cracked a decades-old puzzle that...Read more about New DNA Synthesis Method Could Soon Build a Genome in a Day

College of Chemistry alum Eric Tulsky promoted to vice president of hockey management and strategy of the National Hockey League's Carolina Hurricanes.Read more about Alum Eric Tulsky promoted to leadership role for NHL's Carolina Hurricanes

John Casida, one of the world's leading authorities on how pesticides work and how they can potentially harm humans. Casida was the founding director of the campus's Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology Laboratory.Read more about Preeminent toxicologist and pesticide expert John Casida dies at 88

Dow Professor of Sustainable Chemistry Alexis Bell has been awarded the title of Honorary Professor of Boreskov Institute of Catalysis by the institute's...Read more about Alexis Bell awarded honorary professorship

Kwabena Bediako and colleagues develop light-weight, long-lasting batteries.Read more about The physics of better batteries