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April 5, 2021

This Hydrogen Fuel Machine Could Be the Ultimate Guide to Self-Improvement

Guosong Zeng, Francesca Toma, Berkeley Lab

PMP Tech Forms a Bond with the College of Chemistry

Heathcock Hall front entrance illustration

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

PMP 先鋒材料科技集團與柏克萊加州大學化學院建立合作關系

Heathcock Hall front entrance illustration

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

PMP 先鋒材料科技集團（PMP Tech）承諾的1000萬美元，不僅可以為未來柏克萊加州大學化學、化學工程及化學生物學專業學生提供更多的學習機會，還將用於建造一幢具備開創性的教學樓，為化學科學家和工程師們提供一流的科研工作環境。

April 2, 2021

In Memoriam: David Shirley

David Shirley

William A Lester, Jr., Ph.D. Gets the Star Treatment!

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.

April 1, 2021

Alivisatos and Grätzel receive the Frontiers Award for developing new nanomaterials applied in renewable energies

solar cell

March 31, 2021

College of Chemistry graduate programs get high honors in new U.S. News rankings

College of Chemistry campus

March 30, 2021

FDA approves first test of CRISPR to correct genetic defect causing sickle cell disease

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, courtesy UCLA’s Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research)

March 29, 2021

A very strong magnet: QB3-Berkeley’s 900 MHz NMR Facility

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

Jeff Pelton, PhD, the NMR facility manager.

March 24, 2021

Do You Know the Way to Berkelium, Californium?

Berkelium, Californium

COVID Stories: Sourdough bread with a purpose

Seniors Brendan Huang and Carolyn Hong

March 23, 2021

In Memoriam: Chia-Kuang (Frank) Tsung

Group of scientists at meeting in Shaghai

Portable oasis: GE and its partners plan to build a box to produce water from air

Test of water extracted from air

Image courtesy of GE.

With drop in LA’s vehicular aerosol pollution, plants emerge as major source

Mexican palms

Mexican fan palms, native to the deserts of northwestern Mexico, are a widely-planted ornamental throughout the Los Angeles basin and are contributing substantially to the organic aerosol pollution in the area, according to a UC Berkeley study. (Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)

March 8, 2021

CRISPR and the Code Breaker

Visionary biochemist Jennifer Doudna shared the Nobel Prize last year for the gene-editing technology known as CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats), which has the potential to cure diseases caused by genetic mutations. Correspondent David Pogue talks with Doudna about the promises and perils of CRISPR; and with Walter Isaacson, author of the new book "The Code Breaker," about why the biotech revolution will dwarf the digital revolution in importance.

This is the year that CRISPR moves from lab to clinic

Women makes COVID discovery in lab

Scientist makes COVID discovery in lab. (Photo Adobe Stock)

March 4, 2021

Carlos Bustamante receives 2021 Kazuhiko Kinosita Award in single-molecule biophysics

Carlos J. Bustamante

Professor Carlos Bustamante. Image courtesy of the College of Chemistry

February 25, 2021

The College of Chemistry announces new lectureship in honor of Yuan Tseh Lee
Y.T. Lee in Lab - undated

Professor Emeritus Y. T. Lee in his lab at UC Berkeley 1980s. (Photo College of Chemistry)

February 23, 2021

Chemistry senior's advice on surfing the pandemic

Katia Gibson

Katia Gibson, (B.S. '21, Chem) surfing last August at Jalama Beach in Santa Barbara County, brought along two surfboards, to get practice time on each. (Photo by Steve Gibson)

February 22, 2021

A sponge to soak up carbon dioxide in the air

smokestacks

Berkeley Lab is pursuing a portfolio of negative emissions technologies and related research to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. (Photo courtesy Jeffrey Reimer)