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AIChE has announced that alum Eric Reiner (Ph.D ChemE ’94) recently made a $50k donation to the AIChE Foundation to kick off their LGBTQ+ & Allies Initiative aimed at advancing the inclusiveness of the chemical engineering profession.Read more about Gift from Alum Eric Reiner helps launch AIChE LGBTQ+ & Allies Initiative

The University of California announced today that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has granted patent number 10,000,772 covering the use of CRISPR-Cas9...Read more about Doudna-Charpentier team awarded U.S. patent for CRISPR-Cas9

Breakthrough discovery at the Joint BioEnergy Institute could greatly accelerate the pace of science.Read more about Faster, Cheaper, Better: A New Way to Synthesize DNA

New research on copper could lead to better understanding of role in sleep.Read more about Copper regulates sleep in zebrafish

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...Read more about Water harvester delivers fresh water from air

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. Meet Berkelium, Californium and Lawrencium....Read more about Campanile peregrine falcon chicks named in popular vote

The Meyerhoff Scholars Program at UMBC has graduated more than 1,100 mostly African-American students in science and engineering. (Photo by Algerina Perna, Balitmore Sun)Read more about Agents of change

Team led by Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley researchers exploits tiny defects in diamonds to pave the way for enhanced biological imaging and drug studies.Read more about Diamond ‘spin-off’ tech could lead to low-cost medical imaging and drug discovery tools