Breakthrough discovery at the Joint BioEnergy Institute could greatly accelerate the pace of science.
June 18, 2018
Berkeley Lab
June 11, 2018
A spectacular new mural was installed this week in the lobby of Pimentel Hall at UC Berkeley’s College of Chemistry. Celebrating the College’s involvement in NASA’s Mars 6 and Mars 7 Mariner missions, the mural sits across from a copy of the infrared spectrometer that was installed in each of the two satellites.
June 9, 2018
Source: Chemical & Engineering News
New research on copper could lead to better understanding of role in sleep.
June 8, 2018
Berkeley News
A UC Berkeley team headed by Omar Yaghi plopped their newest prototype water harvester into the backyard of a tract home in Arizona and started sucking water out of the air without any power other than sunlight.
June 2, 2018
SF Gate
UC Berkeley bird lovers, being a class act, decided the names of three peregrine falcon chicks that have taken up residence in a nest atop the landmark Campanile bell tower should be, well, dignified.
May 21, 2018
A team of UC Berkeley researchers has announced promising research could lead to new strategies in NMR and MRI technologies using diamonds and lasers.
May 18, 2018
Berkeley Lab
Team led by Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley researchers exploits tiny defects in diamonds to pave the way for enhanced biological imaging and drug
Carroll County Times
The Meyerhoff Scholars Program at UMBC has graduated more than 1,100 mostly African-American students in science and engineering, providing money, academic guidance, research experience, mentoring and a sense of family to underrepresented minorities in a lucrative and highly competitive field. (Photo by Algerina Perna, Balitmore Sun)
May 17, 2018
Berkeley News
Two longtime leaders of the University of California — C. Judson King, also a Berkeley professor and administrator who became UC provost, and Richard C.
May 11, 2018
Professors Dean Toste and Birgitta Whaley have been elected this year to the prestigious Academy of Arts and Sciences , which honors exceptional scholars, leaders, artists and innovators.
May 8, 2018
Chemistry faculty named winners of the 2018 Royal Society of Chemistry Awards.
May 7, 2018
Scientifically gifted, agile and charmingly quirky, Freja Ekman knows firsthand how it feels to win the genetic lottery. But UC Berkeley’s top graduating senior is also painfully aware of how a single gene mutation can drastically alter the trajectory of one’s life.
May 3, 2018
Chemical & Engineering News
A new thorium-aluminum complex is the first in which an actinide element donates electrons when bonding with a metal.
Techwarf/Engadget
A newly developed sorbent-based alternative has recently shown that it can harvest atmospheric moisture even when the relative humidity drops to around 10 percent.
C&EN
Female leaders in science and advocacy embrace the fast-growing business.
May 1, 2018
Berkeley News
The National Academy of Sciences has named five new members from UC Berkeley -- Yang Dan, Ehud Isacoff, Umesh Vazirani, Kristie Boering (chemistry) and Michael Manga.
April 30, 2018
Professor of Chemistry and Molecular and Cell Biology, Michael Marletta, will receive an Honorary Doctor of Science degree from the State University of New York at Fredonia.
April 29, 2018
The world is getting closer to using Crispr to detect a disease quickly, accurately, and cheaply thanks to a new company co-launched by Jennifer Doudna.
April 23, 2018
Berkeley Lab, Somorjai researchers say hybrid approach could lead to next-generation catalysts.
April 21, 2018
Celebrate earth week by getting involved. Student Environmental Resource Center (SERC) and Environmental & Sustainability Student Organizations have developed lots of ways to get involved. View the schedule here.