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Conceptual rendering of the ground floor entrance of Heathcock Hall looking East. (Courtesy HOK)

A $10 million commitment from Taiwan-based company Pioneer Material Precision Tech (PMP Tech) will catalyze educational opportunities for future generations of Berkeley...Read more about PMP Tech Forms a Bond with the College of Chemistry

Guosong Zeng, a postdoctoral scholar, and Francesca Toma, a staff scientist, both in Berkeley Lab’s Chemical Sciences Division, test an artificial photosynthesis device made of gallium nitride. Toma and Zeng discovered that the device, rather than degrading over time, improves with...Read more about This Hydrogen Fuel Machine Could Be the Ultimate Guide to Self-Improvement

Professor Emeritus William A Lester, Ph.D. has participated in The Star Treatment, a prestigious video series hosted by renowned lawyer and television personality, Star Jones.

Dr. Lester, a professor emeritus at the Department of Chemistry at the University of California Berkeley...Read more about William A Lester, Jr., Ph.D. Gets the Star Treatment!

David Arthur Shirley, former director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and professor of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, died on March 29, 2021, of age-related illness. Shirley was a pioneer of electron spectroscopy, a teacher, a mentor, and an...Read more about In Memoriam: David Shirley

The long-anticipated fourth edition of Electrochemical Systems by John Newman and Nitash P. Balsara is now available.* The fourth edition updates all of the chapters, adds content on lithium battery electrolyte characterization and polymer electrolytes, and includes a new...Read more about Authors John Newman and Nitash Balsara release 'Electrochemical Systems', Fourth Edition

The BBVA Foundation has awarded the Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Basic Sciences category to Paul Alivisatos and Michael Grätzel for their fundamental contributions to the development of new nanomaterials that are already being applied both in solar energy production and in next-...Read more about Alivisatos and Grätzel receive the Frontiers Award for developing new nanomaterials applied in renewable energies

The latest U.S. News & World Report national rankings has placed the College’s graduate programs in chemistry and chemical engineering in second place. The College continues to maintain its position among the top graduate programs in the country.

Our alumna Frances Arnold,...Read more about College of Chemistry graduate programs get high honors in new U.S. News rankings

Sickle cell patients such as Cassandra Trimnell and Evie James Junior and UCSF physician Mark Walters talk about the severe pain experienced by those with the disease and the potential benefits of a CRISPR cure. (Video by UC Berkeley Public Affairs; video of Evie Junior by Colin Weatherby,...Read more about FDA approves first test of CRISPR to correct genetic defect causing sickle cell disease

Graduate student Riley Fricke sits down with Jeff Pelton (Ph.D. '90, Chem) the manager of QB3-Berkeley’s 900 MHz NMR Facility, to discuss the facility and recent research that NMR spectroscopy has helped support.

Jeff Pelton, PhD, the NMR facility manager....Read more about A very strong magnet: QB3-Berkeley’s 900 MHz NMR Facility