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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

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

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