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Category Archive: New & Notable

Design updates for Heathcock Hall

Heathcock Hall conceptual sketch
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HOK, the firm responsible for the design of Heathcock Hall, has sent updated sketches as the firm works […]

Posted on May 27, 2020May 27, 2020 New & NotableV 15.1

New material design tops carbon-capture from wet flue gases

Industrial smokestacks, Germany; photo Jeffrey Reimer
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In new research reported in Nature (Nature 576, 253–256 (2019)), an international team of chemical engineers have designed a material […]

Posted on May 26, 2020May 26, 2020 New & NotableV 15.1

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

biohybrid machine developed in the lab of Peidong Yang
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For the past eight years, researchers in the lab of Peidong Yang have been working on a hybrid […]

Posted on May 26, 2020May 26, 2020 New & NotableV 15.1

Researchers discover new clue behind age-related diseases and food spoilage

Researchers discover new clue behind age-related diseases and food spoilage
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Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have made a surprising discovery […]

Posted on May 26, 2020May 26, 2020 Alumni profileNew & NotableV 15.1

Scientists race against the clock testing existing drugs to fight COVID-19

Artist rendering of the novel coronavirus
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A group of scientists from across the world, including Kevan Shokat (Ph.D. ’91, Chem) , UC Berkeley Professor […]

Posted on May 26, 2020May 26, 2020 Alumni profileFaculty ProfilesNew & NotableResearchV 15.1

Integrating green chemistry in the undergraduate curriculum

Laura Armstrong (from left), Lauren Irie, Anne Baranger, and Michelle Douskey examine the results of an octanol-water partitioning experiment. Photo courtesy: Anne Baranger
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A recent major gift from the Dow Chemical Company Foundation was primarily used to completely renovate the College’s […]

Posted on May 26, 2020May 26, 2020 Faculty ProfilesNew & NotableV 15.1

Alum David Altman turns 100

David Altman swings into his 100th year. Photo courtesy of Robert Altman
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On his 100th trip around the sun, the secret to David Altman’s (Ph.D. ’43, Chem) long and illustrious life […]

Posted on May 26, 2020May 26, 2020 Alumni profileNew & NotableV 15.1

In Memoriam: Charles B. Harris

Charles Harris in his lab at Berkeley, undated photo. Image: College of Chemistry archive.
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Professor Emeritus Charles B. Harris passed away on March 10th. Charles was born in New York in 1940 […]

Posted on May 26, 2020May 26, 2020 New & NotableV 15.1

John Hartwig awarded 2019 Wolf Prize in Chemistry

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Henry Rapoport Professor in Organic Chemistry John Hartwig (Ph.D. ’90, Chem) and co-awardee Professor Stephen Buchwald from MIT […]

Posted on May 10, 2019May 15, 2019 New & NotableV 14.1

Drug sponge could minimize side effects of cancer treatment

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New research from the lab of Nitash Balsara, the Charles W. Tobias Professor in Electrochemistry, reports that with […]

Posted on May 10, 2019May 14, 2019 New & NotableResearchV 14.1

Alum Frances Arnold signs chair in Nobel tradition

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Nobel Laureate Frances Arnold (Ph.D. ’85, ChemE) carries on a fun Nobel tradition: signing the underside of the […]

Posted on May 10, 2019May 14, 2019 Alumni profileNew & NotableV 14.1

Scientists find new and smaller CRISPR gene editor: CasX

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In a mere seven years, Cas9 has shown itself to be a formidable gene editor, employed in humans, […]

Posted on May 10, 2019May 14, 2019 New & NotableResearchV 14.1

Douglas S. Clark elected to the National Academy of Engineering

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Douglas S. Clark, Dean of the College of Chemistry and Gilbert Newton Lewis Professor, has been elected a […]

Posted on May 10, 2019May 14, 2019 New & NotableV 14.1

UN recognizes the Periodic Table’s 150th anniversary

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In 1869, Russian chemist Dimitri Mendeleev wrote out the known elements (there were 63 at the time) on […]

Posted on May 10, 2019June 3, 2019 New & NotableV 14.1

Alum David Oxtoby named president of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences

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The American Academy of Arts and Sciences has named David W. Oxtoby (Ph.D. ’75, Chem) the organization’s new […]

Posted on May 10, 2019May 14, 2019 Alumni profileNew & NotableV 14.1

Alum John Adams re-elected chair of ACS board of directors

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John E. Adams, (Ph.D. ’79, Chem) has been re-elected chair of the board of directors of the American […]

Posted on May 10, 2019May 14, 2019 Alumni profileNew & NotableV 14.1

Professor Jennifer Doudna honored with National Academy of Sciences Award

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Jennifer Doudna, professor of biochemistry, biophysics, structural biology and chemistry, has received the 2018 National Academy of Sciences […]

Posted on May 1, 2018November 8, 2018 New & NotableResearchV 13.1

Research team discover material ideal for smart photovoltaic windows

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Smart windows, that are transparent when it’s dark or cool but automatically darken when the sun is too […]

Posted on May 1, 2018November 8, 2018 New & NotableResearchV 13.1

Professor John Prausnitz celebrates 90th birthday

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As part of the events of the New Vistas for Molecular Thermodynamics symposium held at the College of […]

Posted on May 1, 2018November 4, 2018 New & NotableV 13.1

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