College of Chemistry

Research shines a light on development of the visual cortex during the critical period after birth

January 19, 2022
UC Berkeley, College of Chemistry Press Release
A new study from the labs of Professors S. Lawrence Zipursky (UCLA) and Karthik Shekhar (UC Berkeley) presents "significant findings that shine an exciting light on our understanding of the influence of vision during the critical period of development in the mouse visual cortex.”

Matthew Francis discusses lowering the activation barrier to change

May 13, 2019
by Emily Hartman and Chrissy Stachl | Berkeley Science Review

Photo: Matthew Francis (third from right) and the Chemistry Graduate Life Committee, consisting of both faculty and graduate students.

Professor Matthew Francis discusses the new Graduate Life Committee diversity initiative with graduate student founders Emily Hartman and Chrissy Stachl. This article originally appeared in Berkeley Science Review and is reposted here by permission....

The College of Chemistry is ranked No.1 globally in 2019 by U.S. News

November 5, 2018
by Marge d'Wylde | College of Chemistry
UC Berkeley's College of Chemistry has been listed as the best global university for chemistry in the 2019 U.S. News and World Report Education rankings.

Frances Arnold: from graduate student to Nobel Laureate

March 3, 2019
by Michael Barnes | College of Chemistry
Caltech professor and Cal alum Frances Arnold, has won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her discoveries in the directed evolution of enzymes. Arnold is the fifth woman to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry since it was first awarded in 1901.

In Memoriam: Kenneth Sauer

November 8, 2022
UC Berkeley, College of Chemistry Press Release

Kenneth Sauer
Photo courtesy Dr. Vittal Yachandra, Berkeley Lab.

Dean Douglas Clark announed today the recent passing on November 6th of our colleague and friend, Kenneth (Ken) Sauer, professor emeritus of chemistry. He was 91 years old.

Ken was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1931. He completed his A.B. degree in chemistry at Oberlin College in 1953. He then moved to Cambridge, MA...

Scientists grow lead-free solar material with a built-in switch

September 1, 2022
Theresa Duque | Berkeley Lab

Light microscopy illustration shows nanowires, 100 to 1,000 nanometers in diameter

Light microscopy image of nanowires, 100 to 1,000 nanometers in diameter, grown from cesium germanium tribromide (CGB) on a mica substrate. The CGB nanowires are samples of a new lead-free halide perovskite solar material that is also ferroelectric. (Credit: Peidong Yang and Ye Zhang/Berkeley Lab)

Solar panels, also...

UC dominates new U.S. News ranking of public universities

September 11, 2018
by Public Affairs, UC Berkeley

Campanile, Berkeley campus

The University of California dominates the latest ranking of public universities from U.S. News and World Report, claiming six spots in the top 12 and seven in the top 30.

As usual, UCLA and UC Berkeley joust for position at the top of the list, in first and second place among public universities. This year, UCLA added four points to its...

The search for a nonflammable lithium battery technology

April 26, 2023
UC Berkeley, College of Chemistry Press Release

lithium ions

Artistic impression of lithium ions whizzing around at an solid-state electrolyte surface being probed by extreme ultraviolet second harmonic generation spectroscopy where an incoming femtosecond XUV pulse (red) gets frequency doubled (blue) at the interface. Illustration: Ella Maru Studio.

Shedding light on the surface of a...

Alumna Susan Solomon joins Pontifical Academy of Science

August 2, 2021
Press Release | Vatican

Susan Solomon

Photo: Professor Solomon. Courtesy MIT.

The Holy Father has appointed as a member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences (PAS) Susan Solomon (Ph.D. '81, Chem), the Lee and Geraldine Martin Professor of Environmental Studies Susan Solomon at MIT.

Her name...

Big data at the atomic scale: new detector reaches new frontier in speed

February 21, 2019
Berkeley Lab News Center | by Glenn Roberts Jr.
Advances in electron microscopy have opened up a new window into the nanoscale world and brought a wide range of samples into focus as never before.