College of Chemistry

New Director Assumes Helm of Kavli ENSI: Peidong Yang to direct the Kavli Energy NanoScience Institute

February 15, 2019
Kavli Foundation | Press Release
Effective January 1, 2019, Peidong Yang assumes the role of Director of the Kavli Energy NanoScience Institute (ENSI).

Students from UC Berkeley excel at "Big Ideas"

May 23, 2019
UC Berkeley, College of Chemistry Press Release
Big Ideas is an annual contest aimed at providing funding, support, and encouragement to interdisciplinary teams of students who have “big ideas.”

Black chemists discuss strategies for dismantling systemic racism in science

September 23, 2020
by Ariana Remmel | C&EN
Taking cues from the #BlackInChem movement, Stereo Chemistry interviews Black chemists and asks what’s working and what comes next.

Markita Landry awarded Bakar Prize for nanotechnolgy innovations

February 23, 2023
UC Berkeley, College of Chemistry Press Release
Associate Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Markita Landry is one of four UC Berkeley faculty members to be awarded the 2023 Bakar Prize.

Karthik Shekhar has been named a 2023 McKnight Scholar

June 14, 2023
UC Berkeley, College of Chemistry Press Release
Shekhar has been awarded a scholarship for his project entitled: Evolution of neural diversity and patterning in the visual system.

Groundbreaking collaborative research program will explore common characteristics of Glaucoma, Alzheimer’s

July 14, 2022
College of Chemistry Press Release
Assistant Professor Karthik Shekhar will participate in the Catalyst for a Cure sponsored by Glaucoma Research Foundation.

College of Chemistry breaks ground on new state-of-the-art building – Heathcock Hall

May 6, 2024
College of Chemistry Press Release
The College of Chemistry celebrated the groundbreaking of its new research and teaching facility, Heathcock Hall, on Thursday, May 2.

Targeting tryptophan: New technique opens door to novel drug synthesis

March 28, 2024
Bob Sanders | UC Berkeley
Chemists have devised a novel method to selectively tag tryptophan residues within proteins, potentially leading to the development of new types of drugs and engineered proteins.

Markita Landry receives 2018 DARPA Young Faculty Award

July 18, 2018
Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Markita Landry has been awarded a prestigious two-year Department Of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award for her project Brain Chemical Signaling: A New Input Signal for Brain-Computer Interfaces.

Molecular Sciences Software Institute launches open-source data sharing project for COVID-19

May 26, 2020
Virginia Tech Press release
The Molecular Sciences Software Institute has launched an open-source website that will allow biomolecular scientists from around the world to share computer-aided drug-testing simulations targeting the protein at the center of COVID-19.