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Rui Wang: From theoretical models to real world solutions

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By Michael Barnes It was in early 2003 when Rui Wang, a third-year undergraduate from Zhejiang University in […]

Posted on May 10, 2019May 14, 2019 Faculty ProfilesV 14.1

The super-microscopic world of Ke Xu

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When Assistant Professor of Chemistry Ke Xu finished his Ph.D. on superconductors, he decided to work in a […]

Posted on May 10, 2019May 15, 2019 ResearchV 14.1

Reflections on a Scholar’s Journey in the World of Entrepreneurship

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By Paul Alivisatos From the time I was a graduate student at Berkeley in the early 1980s, I […]

Posted on May 10, 2019May 14, 2019 Faculty ProfilesV 14.1

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

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

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

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

Changes in the College’s Advisory Board

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The Advisory Board fills a tremendously important function for the College both as mentors and as liaisons into […]

Posted on May 1, 2018November 9, 2018 New & NotableV 13.1

Kwabena Bediako: Getting the fundamentals down

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“In Ghana,” says Kwabena Bediako, one of the College of Chemistry’s new assistant professors, “everyone knows I was […]

Posted on May 1, 2018November 3, 2018 Faculty ProfilesV 13.1

John Rittle: Putting the Pieces together

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Undergraduate students are rarely the first authors on articles in leading scientific journals. But that’s what happened in […]

Posted on May 1, 2018November 3, 2018 Faculty ProfilesV 13.1

Editor’s farewell: Catalyst magazine’s editor, writer and photographer retires

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We are very sorry to announce that, after eleven years roving the corridors of the College of Chemistry—and […]

Posted on May 1, 2017November 3, 2018 LifestyleStoriesV 12.1

Treating disease with cold atmospheric plasmas

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David Graves still remembers the first time he saw the Bay Area. “I had just graduated with a […]

Posted on May 1, 2017November 3, 2018 FeaturesResearchV 12.1

Omar Yaghi: Wringing drinking water from dry air

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The world is running out of clean water. By the end of the century more than 11 billion […]

Posted on May 1, 2017November 3, 2018 FeaturesResearchV 12.1

Adventures on the scientific frontier

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Explorations always seem more tidy in retrospect. Take, for example, the expedition of Lewis and Clark. From our […]

Posted on May 1, 2017October 23, 2018 FeaturesV 12.1

Pitzer Center Welcomes New Faculty

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Thanks to the very generous support of the Pitzer Family Foundation, the Kenneth S. Pitzer Center for Theoretical […]

Posted on May 1, 2017October 23, 2018 Faculty ProfilesV 12.1

College faculty win CZ Biohub grants

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Thirteen UC Berkeley faculty, including the college’s Markita Landry, Ke Xu and Wenjun Zhang, are among 47 new […]

Posted on May 1, 2017October 23, 2018 New & NotableV 12.1

Doudna wins Japan Prize

Jennifer Doudna. Photo courtesy Washington Post/Getty Images.
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Berkeley’s Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier of Germany’s Max Planck Institute have been awarded the 2017 Japan Prize […]

Posted on May 1, 2017October 23, 2018 New & NotableV 12.1

John Arnold appointed new undergraduate dean

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The College of Chemistry welcomes chemistry professor John Arnold as the new Undergraduate Dean, effective July 1. Arnold, […]

Posted on May 1, 2017November 3, 2018 Faculty ProfilesNew & NotableV 12.1

Chang and Toste invent a new type of chemical Swiss army knife for proteins

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Berkeley chemistry professors Chris Chang and Dean Toste have developed a new method of protein ligation, the joining […]

Posted on May 1, 2017October 23, 2018 New & NotableV 12.1

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