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Professor Michelle Chang awarded 2022 Centenary Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry

June 16, 2022

Michelle Chang, a professor of chemistry and chemical and biomolecular engineering at UC Berkeley, has been named the 2022 Centenary Prize winner(link is external) by the Royal Society of Chemistry for her “seminal contributions in biosynthesis and biocatalysis to advance energy and environmental science and biomedical research, and for excellence in communication. Professor Chang stated, “I think…

Phillip Messersmith and Wenjun Zhang named Spark Award recipients

June 14, 2022

From artificial ligaments and a novel approach to cancer treatment to “soft” batteries and a way to give voice to silent speech, new innovations from UC Berkeley faculty are getting a big vote of support from the Bakar Fellows program. Seven faculty members have been selected to receive the 2022 Bakar Fellows Spark Award, which…

Faculty focus on Aaron Streets

May 19, 2022

Aaron Streets received a BS in physics and a BA in art at UCLA. He completed his PhD in applied physics at Stanford University with Dr. Stephen Quake. Streets then went to Beijing, China as a Whitaker International Postdoctoral Fellow and a Ford postdoctoral fellow and worked with Dr. Yanyi Huang in the Biodynamic Optical Imaging…

Nanobiotechnologist selected for inaugural Philomathia Prize

May 18, 2022

Assistant Professor Markita del Carpio Landry of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering has been named the inaugural recipient of the Philomathia Prize. The prize recognizes demonstrated excellence and future potential of a UC Berkeley faculty member’s research. Established in 2021 through a generous endowment gift from the Philomathia Foundation, the Philomathia Prize will…

A large building with marble columns at sunset; this is the Doe Library on the UC Berkeley campus.

Three QB3-Berkeley faculty members elected to National Academy of Sciences

May 03, 2022

Six UC Berkeley’s faculty members were elected today to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Among these, three are QB3-Berkeley faculty members. The six were among 120 members and 30 international members elected at the conclusion of the academy’s 159th annual meeting. Membership is a…

Nobel laureate Randy Schekman will give 2022 commencement address

April 29, 2022

As a kid growing up in Orange County, UC Berkeley biology professor Randy Schekman remembers collecting a jar of dirty pond scum from a nearby riverbed, sliding it under the lens of his toy microscope and being transfixed by the tiny, cellular world he saw. That fascination led Schekman to an illustrious career: a Berkeley…

The scientist who co-created CRISPR isn’t ruling out engineered babies someday

April 26, 2022

The day I spoke to Jennifer Doudna was a tough day: the US Patent Office had just ruled against her university on CRISPR’s most important uses, handing the commercial rights to her rivals at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Doudna is the co-discoverer of CRISPR editing, the revolutionary method for engineering genes that, 10 years…