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UC Berkeley is again the top public university in the world and is fourth overall in the 2015 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), released over the weekend. Photo by Keegan Houser.

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Bolt Threads is developing products from protein strings that mimic the composition of spider silk, one of nature's most durable fibers.

Joel Adlen and Doris Kaeo have been named recipients of the CAP award.

Researchers at Energy Biosciences Institute develop process for drop-in aviation biofuel

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New method for making aviation fuel could cut greenhouse gas emissions.

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Professor Emeritus and former Berkeley Lab Director Chuck Shank has been named by President Obama as one of two recipients of the Enrico Fermi Award.

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Here’s how lax U.S. regulation risks consumer health.

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A study published in Environmental Health Perspectives outlines a new method for assessing how synthetic chemicals and pollutants may contribute to breast cancer risk.

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Study finds gender stereotyping in which men are more strongly associated with science than women has been found in some unlikely countries.

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At LBNL's Molecular Foundry, two robotic chemical-synthesizing machines have joined the search for new antimicrobial compounds.

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The Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering is pleased to announce that Markita Landry, currently a postdoc in MIT’s chemical engineering department, will join the faculty as an assistant professor on July 1, 2016.

New Solar Energy Research Center will foster development of fuels from sunlight; building will be named for Steven Chu, former Berkeley Lab Director and Energy Secretary

A group of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering students won a second place award in UC Berkeley’s Big Ideas competition.

Three College of Chemistry assistant professors, chemistry’s Evan Miller and Ke Xu, along with CBE’s Wenjun Zhang, are the recipients of awards from the Hellman Fellows Fund.

Whether you’re brainy, brawny or both, you may someday benefit from a drug found to rejuvenate aging brain and muscle tissue.

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Berkeley start-up hopes to extinguish the danger in lithium-ion batteries

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David Schaffer harnesses evolution to improve drug delivery.

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College of Chemistry professors Bustamonte, Hartwig and Iglesia have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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Steven Chavez, a talented and hard-working CBE undergraduate, will be starting a Ph.D. program in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Michigan next fall. For the first time in his college career, Chavez won’t have to work to pay for his education.

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