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Earlier this month, a celebratory toast welcomed Professor Omar Yaghi back to campus in honor of his Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The afternoon's images continue to inspire, long after the celebration ended.
Hydrogen is hard and expensive to produce, but we have cleared a major hurdle to making green hydrogen more affordable. 🌱💧
Producing hydrogen to fuel heavy transport and industry is energy intensive and expensive. A Berkeley chemist has overcome one roadblock to producing low-cost, green hydrogen from water and electricity. news.berkeley.edu/2025/11/24/h...
How UC Berkeley is improving the affordability of hydrogen fuel - Berkeley News
Producing hydrogen to fuel heavy transport and industry is energy intensive and expensive. A Berkeley chemist has overcome one roadblock to producing low-cost, green hydrogen from water and electricit...
news.berkeley.edu
November 25, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Hydrogen is hard and expensive to produce, but we have cleared a major hurdle to making green hydrogen more affordable. 🌱💧
Congratulations, Professor Zuerch!
RCSA, @sloanfoundation.bsky.social & @kavlifoundation.org have made awards to eight cross-disciplinary teams of early career researchers in the second year of #Scialog: Sustainable Minerals, Metals, and Materials.
2025 Scialog SM3 Awards
Eight cross-disciplinary teams have won funding in the second year of Scialog: Sustainable Minerals, Metals, and Materials, a three-year initiative catalyzing cutting-edge basic science to address how...
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November 18, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Congratulations, Professor Zuerch!
This is the spirit that drives Berkeley forward, solving real-world challenges and shaping the future of technology. Proud of our Bears! 🐻🔬 #BerkeleyPride #FutureOfTech @zuerchlab https://bit.ly/4qZqrGW
November 5, 2025 at 11:33 PM
This is the spirit that drives Berkeley forward, solving real-world challenges and shaping the future of technology. Proud of our Bears! 🐻🔬 #BerkeleyPride #FutureOfTech @zuerchlab https://bit.ly/4qZqrGW
Earlier this month, a celebratory toast welcomed Professor Omar Yaghi back to campus in honor of his Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The afternoon's images continue to inspire, long after the celebration ended.
October 31, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Earlier this month, a celebratory toast welcomed Professor Omar Yaghi back to campus in honor of his Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The afternoon's images continue to inspire, long after the celebration ended.
Only 2% of people getting gel manicures protect against harmful UV rays. Our researchers have developed a spray that guards against UVA exposure during nail treatments. Innovations like these that remind us why we're a leading public research university. https://bit.ly/47e3OoZ
October 15, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Only 2% of people getting gel manicures protect against harmful UV rays. Our researchers have developed a spray that guards against UVA exposure during nail treatments. Innovations like these that remind us why we're a leading public research university. https://bit.ly/47e3OoZ
A champagne toast, remarks and media were waiting for Professor Omar Yaghi as he returned to campus today after his Nobel Prize win on Wednesday. 🎉 @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @chancellorlyons.bsky.social @berkeleyinspire.bsky.social @berkeleycdss.bsky.social
October 14, 2025 at 2:53 AM
A champagne toast, remarks and media were waiting for Professor Omar Yaghi as he returned to campus today after his Nobel Prize win on Wednesday. 🎉 @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @chancellorlyons.bsky.social @berkeleyinspire.bsky.social @berkeleycdss.bsky.social
We echo these sentiments!
1/2 From IGI Founder @jenniferdoudna.bsky.social: “Congratulations to my colleagues Omar Yaghi & John Clarke — the two latest UC Berkeley Nobel Laureates! Omar’s development of metal-organic frameworks changed the way we capture carbon, store energy & harvest water from desert air. shorturl.at/GpBsu
UC Berkeley’s Omar Yaghi shares 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry - Berkeley News
Yaghi created a field called reticular chemistry, which involves stitching together molecular building blocks to form porous structures — metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) — with myriad applications.
news.berkeley.edu
October 8, 2025 at 6:26 PM
We echo these sentiments!
We are thrilled to announce that Professor Omar Yaghi was awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry today! @UCBerkeley @NobelPrize https://bit.ly/48VwG7P
October 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
We are thrilled to announce that Professor Omar Yaghi was awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry today! @UCBerkeley @NobelPrize https://bit.ly/48VwG7P
Alumni & Parents Weekend at Homecoming starts TODAY! And today, the College of Chemistry has a special message for the parents, guardians, and family who support our students. https://homecoming.berkeley.edu/ #ParentsWeekend #Homecoming #GoBears #CollegeofChemistry 💙 💛
October 3, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Alumni & Parents Weekend at Homecoming starts TODAY! And today, the College of Chemistry has a special message for the parents, guardians, and family who support our students. https://homecoming.berkeley.edu/ #ParentsWeekend #Homecoming #GoBears #CollegeofChemistry 💙 💛
🍄✨ From food waste to foodie wonder: Chef-turned-scientist Vayu Hill-Maini is using fungi to turn scraps into snacks. A third of U.S. food goes to waste — and he’s tackling it with Neurospora intermedia, the same fungus Indonesians have long used to make oncom, a protein-packed dish from leftovers.
Chef-turned-chemist Vayu Hill-Maini has a passion: to transform food waste into culinary delights using fungi.
October 2, 2025 at 10:20 PM
🍄✨ From food waste to foodie wonder: Chef-turned-scientist Vayu Hill-Maini is using fungi to turn scraps into snacks. A third of U.S. food goes to waste — and he’s tackling it with Neurospora intermedia, the same fungus Indonesians have long used to make oncom, a protein-packed dish from leftovers.
Please join us Sat., Oct. 4, for our annual Homecoming Lecture, featuring Professor Kranthi Mandadapu. He will discuss his research topics as well as his experience as an alumnus and faculty member at the College. Visit the calendar listing for more information at https://bit.ly/48783F2
September 29, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Please join us Sat., Oct. 4, for our annual Homecoming Lecture, featuring Professor Kranthi Mandadapu. He will discuss his research topics as well as his experience as an alumnus and faculty member at the College. Visit the calendar listing for more information at https://bit.ly/48783F2
Let's hear it for Nick and Darren, two CoC graduates from the class of 2015 in ChemE who are passionate about early education. They recently co-authored a children's book about batteries called "My Baby's First Climate Book: Batteries!" #alums #gobears #climatescience
September 25, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Let's hear it for Nick and Darren, two CoC graduates from the class of 2015 in ChemE who are passionate about early education. They recently co-authored a children's book about batteries called "My Baby's First Climate Book: Batteries!" #alums #gobears #climatescience
This Hispanic Heritage Month, we're spotlighting a Summer Undergraduate Research Diversity (SURD) fellow, Guillermo. “As a Boricua in science, I’m reminded through SURD that heritage and research go hand in hand, and that we carry our culture into every discovery."
September 23, 2025 at 6:05 PM
This Hispanic Heritage Month, we're spotlighting a Summer Undergraduate Research Diversity (SURD) fellow, Guillermo. “As a Boricua in science, I’m reminded through SURD that heritage and research go hand in hand, and that we carry our culture into every discovery."
Imagine trying to stuff a huge couch into a tiny studio apartment. That's what engineers are up against when making tiny computer chips for your phone. But nearly 20 years ago, a team led by our own Peidong Yang came up with a way to build the tiny on-off switches that make up those chips.
DYK that nearly 20 years ago, Berkeley Lab scientists showed a novel way to build advanced transistors decades before similar structures reached smartphones?
Discover how ⬇️
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Discover how ⬇️
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Early Berkeley Lab Research Demonstrated Novel Approach to Next-Generation Transistor Design
Bottom-up nanowire innovation from early 2000s showed alternative path to energy-efficient chips powering today’s smartphones, laptops, and AI.
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September 22, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Imagine trying to stuff a huge couch into a tiny studio apartment. That's what engineers are up against when making tiny computer chips for your phone. But nearly 20 years ago, a team led by our own Peidong Yang came up with a way to build the tiny on-off switches that make up those chips.
And that's a wrap! Thank you to everyone who made Oski's birthday fundraiser a huge success. We raised a total of $12,793! Your generosity will make a real difference. We couldn't have done it without you!
September 19, 2025 at 9:07 PM
And that's a wrap! Thank you to everyone who made Oski's birthday fundraiser a huge success. We raised a total of $12,793! Your generosity will make a real difference. We couldn't have done it without you!
The Oski B-day Bear-a-thon ends at 1 p.m. today, and the College of Chemistry community is already coming together to make a big impact. But there is still time to do more! Make your gift to the Undergraduate Students and Program Fund now! 🎁 https://bit.ly/3VUk3lO
September 19, 2025 at 2:15 PM
The Oski B-day Bear-a-thon ends at 1 p.m. today, and the College of Chemistry community is already coming together to make a big impact. But there is still time to do more! Make your gift to the Undergraduate Students and Program Fund now! 🎁 https://bit.ly/3VUk3lO
Happy Birthday, Oski! 🥳 Help make Oski's birthday wish come true: that all students thrive at UC Berkeley! Your support of the College of Chemistry’s Undergraduate Students and Program Fund will make a huge difference. Donate now at bit.ly/3VUk3lO
September 18, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Happy Birthday, Oski! 🥳 Help make Oski's birthday wish come true: that all students thrive at UC Berkeley! Your support of the College of Chemistry’s Undergraduate Students and Program Fund will make a huge difference. Donate now at bit.ly/3VUk3lO
No more brushing? Maybe someday! The College of Chemistry's Wenjun Zhang and her team are mapping the oral microbiome to distinguish between healthy and cavity-causing bacteria. Their goal: boost the good guys and create a probiotic environment in your mouth. #BerkeleyResearch https://bit.ly/3I6IMzZ
Can the ‘good’ bacteria in your mouth act as probiotic cavity fighters? | College of Chemistry
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September 5, 2025 at 7:31 PM
No more brushing? Maybe someday! The College of Chemistry's Wenjun Zhang and her team are mapping the oral microbiome to distinguish between healthy and cavity-causing bacteria. Their goal: boost the good guys and create a probiotic environment in your mouth. #BerkeleyResearch https://bit.ly/3I6IMzZ
Teng-Jui (Owen) Lin and Kylee Hillman, two graduate students in the Landry Lab, have been awarded the NINDS Early-Career Rigor Champions Prize.
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Shining a light on misleading data | College of Chemistry
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August 26, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Teng-Jui (Owen) Lin and Kylee Hillman, two graduate students in the Landry Lab, have been awarded the NINDS Early-Career Rigor Champions Prize.
chemistry.berkeley.edu/news/shining...
chemistry.berkeley.edu/news/shining...
The National Science Foundation has renewed funding for the NSF Center for Genetically Encoded Materials (C-GEM).
We’re excited to announce that the NSF renewed C-GEM’s funding for Phase IIb! Thank you to all of our researchers for their hard work over the past five years 🎊
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NSF commits $15 million to renewed funding for the Center for Genetically Encoded Materials | College of Chemistry
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August 26, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The National Science Foundation has renewed funding for the NSF Center for Genetically Encoded Materials (C-GEM).
A new study from UC Berkeley suggests that oxytocin, the "love hormone," could also be the "friendship hormone." Researchers found that the hormone is crucial for the speed and selectivity of forming new social bonds. 🧪🧠 #UCBerkeley #ScienceInnovation
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August 12, 2025 at 9:44 PM
A new study from UC Berkeley suggests that oxytocin, the "love hormone," could also be the "friendship hormone." Researchers found that the hormone is crucial for the speed and selectivity of forming new social bonds. 🧪🧠 #UCBerkeley #ScienceInnovation
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Congratulations to our very own professor of chemistry, @jenniferdoudna.bsky.social, on being awarded the Priestley Medal! 🏅
@acs.org is recognizing Jennifer A. Doudna with the Priestley Medal for her discoveries on ribozyme function, the Dicer RNase enzyme, double-stranded RNA processing, and CRISPR gene editing, along with her impactful international science leadership. cen.acs.org/people/award... #chemsky 🧪
Jennifer Doudna is named 2026 Priestley Medalist
The award recognizes the biochemist for discoveries on ribozyme function and CRISPR gene editing, and international science leadership
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August 6, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Congratulations to our very own professor of chemistry, @jenniferdoudna.bsky.social, on being awarded the Priestley Medal! 🏅
Behind every groundbreaking discovery at the College of Chemistry lies an unsung hero: our Machine Shop. Here, abstract ideas become tangible reality, crafting custom components that simply don't exist on the commercial market. bit.ly/45hgPx2
Unsung heroes of the College of Chemistry: how the Machine Shop fuels innovation | College of Chemistry
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August 5, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Behind every groundbreaking discovery at the College of Chemistry lies an unsung hero: our Machine Shop. Here, abstract ideas become tangible reality, crafting custom components that simply don't exist on the commercial market. bit.ly/45hgPx2
The summer issue of Catalyst magazine is out now! Read about our chemical biology graduate program, Markita Landry’s award winning year, Colin Gould on lighting up chemistry, Laura Hirshfield shaping inclusive engineering, Alexander Pines’ legacy…and more!
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July 24, 2025 at 8:24 PM
The summer issue of Catalyst magazine is out now! Read about our chemical biology graduate program, Markita Landry’s award winning year, Colin Gould on lighting up chemistry, Laura Hirshfield shaping inclusive engineering, Alexander Pines’ legacy…and more!
chemistry.berkeley.edu/news/catalys... 🔗
chemistry.berkeley.edu/news/catalys... 🔗