College of Chemistry

A Single Dose for Good Measure: How an Anti-Nuclear-Contamination Pill Could Also Help MRI Patients

September 12, 2019
By Theresa Duque | Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

This story is reposted here with permission of Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.

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Rebecca Abergel (Ph.D. '06, Chem) leads the BioActinide Chemistry Group in Berkeley Lab’s Chemical Sciences Division. (Credit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley...

Chemistry alum Rebecca Abergel joins nuclear engineering faculty

September 18, 2018
By Public Affairs, UC Berkeley

Rebecca Abergel

Name: Rebecca Abergel
Discipline: Nuclear engineering
Degrees: Ph.D. in chemistry from UC Berkeley, 2006; B.Sc. from Ecole Normale Superieure of Paris, 2002

Research interests:...

Artificial proteins have a firm grasp on heavy metals

December 27, 2019
Theresa Duque | Berkeley Lab

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Illustration of peptoid combinations. Each of the metal-binding monomers is represented as a red or blue “claw.” Credit: Rebecca Abergel/Berkeley Lab

A team of researchers at Berkeley Lab, led by alumna Rebecca Abergel, have developed a library of artificial proteins or “...

UC Berkeley and Gladstone scientists develop new Covid-19 test

December 7, 2020
by Kara Manke | UC Berkeley Public Relations

image for lighting up covid test

In the diagnostic test, a patient sample is mixed with CRISPR Cas13 proteins (purple) and molecular probes (green) which fluoresce, or light up, when cut. When coronavirus RNA is present in the sample, it prompts the CRISPR proteins to snip the molecular probes, causing the whole sample to emit light. This fluorescence can be detected with a cell phone camera. (Image courtesy...

Royal Society of Chemistry marks Richard Andersen’s 75th Birthday with special publication

January 2, 2019
Professors John Arnold and Don Tilley have served as guest editors on a recent web publication of scholarly articles about the research and teaching of Professor Richard Andersen.

Exploring the superheavy elements at the end of the periodic table

May 22, 2019
by Laura Howes | Chemical & Engineering News

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The new facility at the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions in Dubna, Russia, will be used only for superheavy element research. Photo credit: JINR

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The College welcomes new faculty member Ashok Ajoy

September 24, 2020
by Marge d'Wylde | College of Chemistry

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Ashok Ajoy (photo John Fyson)

We are really delighted to welcome Assistant Professor of Chemistry Ashok Ajoy to the College of Chemistry. Ashok most recently held a postdoctoral appointment in the lab of...

Impacts of virtual mentoring on STEM students

June 30, 2020
UC Berkeley, College of Chemistry Press Release

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Photo: Lawrence Berkeley Lab

The innovative Genomics Institute (IGI) has awarded a new research project in the College of Chemistry that is looking at the effects of COVID-19 on STEM mentoring. Headed by Laleh Coté, and including fellow PIs Anne M. Baranger, and Colette Flood, the funding is part of...

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 announced 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,...