June 26, 2024
Experiment captures atoms in free fall to look for gravitational anomalies caused by universe’s missing energy. Dark energy — a mysterious force pushing the universe apart at an ever-increasing rate — was discovered 26 years ago, and ever since, scientists have been searching for a new and exotic particle causing the expansion. Pushing the boundaries…
June 10, 2024
UC Berkeley Epidemiology and Computational Biology Professor Lisa Barcellos has received $1.46 million to study how wildfire smoke affects the DNA of people living in Alameda and Contra Costa counties. The grant is supported by VoLo Foundation, an organization dedicated to understanding climate change and its long-term effects, and facilitating solutions to address it.. Barcellos…
June 04, 2024
QB3-Berkeley faculty affiliate Samantha Lewis recently received an NSF CAREER award for 2024-2029 for her research on Mitochondrial genome partitioning and quality control. Lewis is an assistant professor in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology.
May 21, 2024
This year’s Spark Award recipients embody the spirit of innovation and collaboration that defines UC Berkeley’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. From therapeutics for cancer patients to more sustainable power sources for the AI revolution, our new cohort of Faculty Fellows have proven their readiness to address society’s greatest challenges. The Bakar Fellows Program has been committed to…
May 02, 2024
At the conclusion of its annual gathering this week, the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) announced the election of 120 new members and 24 new international members, among them UC Berkeley’s Abby Dernburg, professor of molecular and cell biology and a senior scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). Also elected was Ramamoorthy Ramesh, a…
April 30, 2024
Professor Teresa Head-Gordon, Chancellor’s Professor of Chemistry, Bioengineering, and Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, has been honored with a prestigious research award from the Humboldt Foundation, known for fostering collaboration with German scientists. Established in 1953, this award includes an invitation to engage in up to a year of working with peers at a German research institution. The award, which…
April 24, 2024
Seven UC Berkeley scientists — including a chemist, a psychologist, an engineer, two biologists and two physicists — are among 250 new members elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences today. The Academy recognizes excellence and convenes leaders from every field of human endeavor to examine new ideas, address issues of importance to the nation…
April 24, 2024
Matthew Francis is a professor in the Department of Chemistry. Research in the Francis lab is focused on the development of new synthetic methods for site-specific protein modification. These new reactions are then applied to the construction of protein-based materials with useful optical and therapeutic functions. Current areas of research include (1) the development of…