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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.

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.

 Berkeley Lab, Somorjai researchers say hybrid approach could lead to next-generation catalysts.

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.

The collaborators hope new advances in chemical biology could open up the human proteome.

Dean Douglas Clark recently announced changes in the College of Chemistry leadership.

The 2018 awardee of the Dalton Transactions University of California, Berkeley Lectureship is Professor Jillian L Dempsey, at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The Lecture recognizes independent early career researchers who have made a significant contribution to the field of inorganic chemistry.

Chat and Ellen Chatterjee donate nearly 600k to the department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.

An international group of scientists that includes the Aldo DeBenedictis Distinguished Professor of Chemistry Phillip Geissler have developed a way to print 3D constructs using water and oil.

JBEI enzyme discovery enables first-time microbial production of an aromatic biofuel.

Berkeley researchers Charles Denby and Rachel Li, have created strains of yeast that produce a hoppy flavor in beer without the use of hops.

Susan Marqusee, Director of QB3, Eveland Warren Endowed Chair Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology and Professor of Chemistry, is the recipient of the 2018 Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Award.

On the occasion of Alexis T. Bell’ s fiftieth year at Berkeley, a group of Alex's former Ph.D and Post Doc students, have created an overview of his substantial research.

Thanks to donors worldwide, we received almost $1.7 million during last Thursday's 24 hour Big Give campaign. To all of you who participated in Big Give both as donors and as student volunteers, we wish to thank you, BIG-TIME, for seizing the moment. You have made a significant difference to the College.

Friend of the College, Constance Mae Ruben, passed away on March 3, 2018. After graduation, she worked first in the College of Chemistry, followed by the criminology department, then for the agricultural publications section of UC Press. She was an editor and was responsible for putting together a book on the trees of the UC Berkeley campus.

A request emailed to all Cal Parents Ambassadors to sponsor an externship for a Berkeley undergraduate turned into a rewarding experience not just for a student, but also for a Tennessee couple who answered the call.

Associate Professor Felix Fischer contributes to research at Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source which reveal how a hydrocarbon called pyrene could form near stars.

Paul Alivisatos, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost of UC Berkeley announced today that Douglas S. Clark has been reappointed as dean of the College of Chemistry for a second five-year term.