College of Chemistry

Kwabena Bediako joins CIFAR research programs

August 11, 2020
UC Berkeley, College of Chemistry Press Release

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Kwabena Bediako, the Cupola Era Assistant Professor of Chemistry at UC Berkeley, has been announced as a 2020 CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar. The program supports outstanding...

CARA hosts research event at UC San Diego

April 24, 2019
Joshua Speros | CARA

CARA research alliance

The California Research Alliance (CARA), sponsored by BASF, hosted their spring review meeting at UC San Diego on March 28-29. The program featured two full days of presentations reporting on scientific progress from university researchers.

Postdoctoral researcher Lilia Xie awarded L'Oreal Fellowship

November 15, 2021
UC Berkeley, College of Chemistry Press Release

Lilia Xie, postdoc, Bediako Lab

The College is pleased to announce that postdoctoral researcher Lilia Xie (Bediako Lab) has been named a 2021 L’Oréal USA For Women in Science fellow. The other scholars...

Clayton Radke recipient of IOR Pioneer award

November 26, 2019
UC Berkeley, College of Chemistry Press Release

Ellen Pawlikowski

Clayton Radke, Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, is the recipient of a 2020 IOR Pioneer award from the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) for his important scientific research into surface interfaces. Professor Radke will be presented with the award during the SPEIOR conference in April, 2020. Radke's research focuses on combining principles of surface and colloid science towards engineering technologies where phase boundaries dictate system behavior.

Sixth Nano Research Award presented to Xinhe Bao and Omar M. Yaghi

June 27, 2019
UC Berkeley, College of Chemistry Press Release

Omar Yaghi

This year’s Nano Research Award, which is sponsored by Tsinghua University Press (TUP) and Springer Nature, was presented to two celebrated researchers in Changsha, China on June 23rd. Omar M. Yaghi, the James and Neeltje Tretter Chair Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley received the award for pioneering a new field of research known as reticular chemistry. This chemistry has led to the discovery of several new classes of extended structures called metal-organic frameworks, covalent organic frameworks, zeolitic imidazolate frameworks, and molecular weaving.

Professor Jennifer Doudna speaks at UH Hilo about her CRISPR discovery

September 22, 2018
By Leah Sherwood

Jennifer Doudna gives lecture in Hilo, Hawaii.

Professor Jennifer Doudna ( seen here with (left) UH Hilo Interim Chancelor Marcia Sakai and (right) UH Hilo Chancelor Emerita Rose Tseng presented the inaugural UH Hilo Rose and Raymond Tseng Distinguished Lecture. view video here

On Mars or Earth, biohybrid can turn CO2 into new products

March 31, 2020
By Robert Sanders | UC Berkeley media relations

CO2 capture technology

If humans ever hope to colonize Mars, the settlers will need to manufacture on-planet a huge range of organic compounds, from fuels to drugs, that are too expensive to ship from Earth. University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) chemists have a plan for that.

CNRS 2019 Innovation Medal awarded to alum Vance Bergeron

September 26, 2019
UC Berkeley, College of Chemistry Press Release

Vance Bergeron

Alum Vance Bergeron (Ph.D. '93, ChemE) is a specialist in the physico-chemical properties of soft matter and passionate about cycling. After a traffic accident in 2013, Bergeron had to face becoming a quadriplegic. Now, he is working in the field of neuro-rehabilitation where he has launched a research program that brings together researchers, doctors and people affected by disabilities to expand on people's recovery.

Forbes 30 under 30 in Science: Joaquin Resasco

December 7, 2019
UC Berkeley, College of Chemistry Press Release

Joaquin Resasco

Alum Joaquin Resasco (Ph.D. '17, ChemE) has been named one of "Forbes 30 under 30 in Science" for 2020! Resasco has been reconginzed for his work aimed around shifting the decades-old paradigm of using petroleum for chemical energy into one that uses water and the atmosphere as stock for commodities, powered by renewable energy. To that end, he’s focused on designing catalysts that can be used for the sustainable production of essential chemicals and polymers.

Evan Miller named a 2020 Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar

April 29, 2020
UC Berkeley, College of Chemistry Press Release

Evan Miller

The College of Chemistry is pleased to announce that UC Berkeley Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Molecular and Cell Biology Evan Miller (Ph.D. ’09, Chem) has been named a 2020 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar. Faculty are chosen for this prestigious national award who are within the first five years of their academic careers, have created an outstanding independent body of scholarship, and are deeply committed to education.