The central mission of the College of Chemistry is to advance society through education and research, and we have made it our responsibility to fulfill this mission, year in and year out, for more than 140 years.
Our two departments provide fundamental and applied studies of an outstanding caliber. The remarkable breadth and depth of resources available to our students readies them as chemists and chemical engineers to address society’s most urgent 21st-century issues.
College faculty have been leaders at the frontiers of knowledge since 1872. Current pioneering research includes premier programs in catalysis, thermodynamics, chemical biology, atmospheric chemistry, the development of polymer, optical and semiconductor materials, and nanoscience, among others.
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Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have engineered a new way to deliver CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technology inside cells and have demonstrated in mice that the...Read more about CRISPR-Gold fixes Duchenne muscular dystrophy mutation in mice
Our students are amazing in the Chemistry and Biology departments. They become world class researchers, go on to start life-changing companies and so much more.Read more about Chemistry students seek crowd funding for educational board game
Beauty of chemistry brought to light in amazing new video series by Yan Liang. (Image courtesy of Wenting Zhu/Envisioning Chemistry.)Read more about Discovering art in chemistry
The University of California, Berkeley has joined forces with pharmaceutical giant Novartis to establish a new research collaboration aimed at unlocking difficult drug targets to accelerate the discovery of new medicines in areas such as infectious diseases and cancer.Read more about Novartis and UC Berkeley collaborate to tackle ‘undruggable’ disease targets
Novartis’s NOVN.S research head expects an alliance with a University of California chemistry lab to produce drug...Read more about Novartis forges UC Berkeley pact, sees drug hopefuls in three years
Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley and Massachusetts General Hospital have identified a key region within the Cas9 protein that governs how accurately CRISPR-Cas9 homes in on a target DNA sequence, and have t...Read more about Discovery helps engineer more accurate Cas9s for CRISPR editing
Peidong Yang and fellow Berkeley Lab scientists discover critical role of nanoparticle transformation.Read more about Copper catalyst yields high efficiency CO2-to-fuels conversion
The College of Chemistry is very pleased to announce that Dr. Paula Hammond, Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering at MIT, will present this year’s Dow Chemical lecture series on Chemical and Biomolecular...Read more about MIT's Dr. Paula Hammond to present this year’s Dow Chemical Lecture Series
UC Berkeley’s College of Chemistry Professor Omar M. Yaghi has been selected to receive the 2017 Japan Society of Coordination Chemistry (JSCC) International Award.Read more about Professor Omar M. Yaghi wins 2017 Japan Society of Coordination Chemistry International Award
Alivisatos is one of the most experienced administrators on a campus -- a campus professor of chemistry who previously served as the campus vice chancellor for research,...Read more about Paul Alivisatos is UC Berkeley’s new provost — is this his final stop?
