150th CBE

Alan Stuart Foss

March 11, 2020

Alan S. Foss

Professor of Chemical Engineering

By C. Judson King, Simon L. Goren, and P. Henrik Wallman

With the death of Alan S. Foss on February 22, 2006, the University of California, Berkeley Department of Chemical Engineering lost...

Tan Kah Kee Hall

March 23, 2021
The Straits Times

Tan Kah Kee Hall

Tan Kah Kee Hall sits to the right of Latimer Hall at the corner of the College of Chemistry complex. (Photo by Marge d'Wylde)

The newest research facility for chemical engineering and chemistry at UC Berkeley was dedicated Saturday, April 12, 1997.

Tan Kah Kee Hall (Tan Hall), was designed primarily to support research and graduate education in fields...

College of Chemistry 150th Celebration

In Memoriam: Philip Schutz

September 10, 2021
by Kenneth S. Pitzer

Philip Schutz

The First Faculty in the Dept of Chemical Engineering:

Undated photo of Philip Schutz while he was a professor at Columbia University. (Courtesy University Archives, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University Libraries; ...

Alumna and Nobel Laureate Frances Arnold tapped by President Biden to be co-chair of the President's Council of Advisers on Science and Technology

January 19, 2021
UC Berkeley, College of Chemistry Press Release

Frances Arnold speaks at announcement ceremony

Professor Arnold speaks on the importance of science during a press conference.

President-elect Joe Biden on Saturday introduced key members of his White House science team, including his nominee for director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP).

"These are among the brightest,...

Donald Hanson

March 24, 2020
Michael Barnes, College of Chemistry, and Robert Sanders, Media Relations

Charles Tobias, Campbell Williams, and Donald Hanson

Undated photo of Charles Tobias, Campbell Williams, and Donald Hanson. (Photo: College of Chemistry, UC Berkeley)

Donald N. Hanson, professor emeritus of chemical...

Charles Robert Wilke

March 5, 2020

Charles Robert Wilke

Professor of Chemical Engineering

By John Prausnitz and Harvey Blanch

Today (2005) every major chemical engineering department in the U.S. offers an academic program in biochemical engineering. In response to the growing importance of biochemistry in the chemical (and related) industries, numerous university...