By Paul Alivisatos From the time I was a graduate student at Berkeley in the early 1980s, I […]
Category Archive: Faculty Profiles
“In Ghana,” says Kwabena Bediako, one of the College of Chemistry’s new assistant professors, “everyone knows I was […]
Undergraduate students are rarely the first authors on articles in leading scientific journals. But that’s what happened in […]
Thanks to the very generous support of the Pitzer Family Foundation, the Kenneth S. Pitzer Center for Theoretical […]
The College of Chemistry welcomes chemistry professor John Arnold as the new Undergraduate Dean, effective July 1. Arnold, […]
Theoretical chemist David Limmer was born in 1986 in Clovis, NM, a town of about 40,000 people in […]
Kranthi Mandadapu realized early in life that he was good at math. He was born in 1984 in […]
Theoretical chemists can be like the quantum realms they study. Each is unique and difficult to categorize. The […]
Several big events colored the year 1969. Richard Nixon enjoyed his first year in office. An unusually large […]
Ke Xu comfortably navigates between different worlds—geographic, cultural and scientific. He was born in 1982 in the city […]
I inch my chair forward toward the table and earnestly peer over the paper my older sister Markita […]
For a simple compound that is central to almost every aspect of our existence, water remains fiendishly difficult […]
Chemistry professor Ron Cohen and group are using sensor technology to measure the concentrations of atmospheric gases at […]
Eric Neuscamman, one of chemistry’s newest assistant professors, succinctly summarizes his research with a simple question, “How do […]
In September 2015, chemistry professor Peidong Yang was notified that he had won a prestigious MacArthur Fellows Program […]
In 1960 Ken Sauer came to UC Berkeley as a postdoc in the lab of Melvin Calvin. One […]
Paul Alivisatos, chemistry professor and newly appointed Berkeley vice chancellor for research, has been selected to receive the […]
CBE professor Wenjun Zhang and chemistry professors Evan Miller and Ke Xu have been awarded Alfred P. Sloane […]
Evan Miller knows a good thing when it he sees it. Some native Californians choose to head far […]