For the Love of Chemistry: Meet PhD Candidate Teresa Williams Love of one's field sparks perseverance toward the Ph.D., as one doctoral candidate reveals to another.
New Interdisciplinary Course “Greener Solutions” Offered by Berkeley Center for Green Chemistry Don’t just hope your career will be awesome — Plan for It! Patagonia, Steelcase, and Mango Materials are partnering with the Fall 2016 Greener Solutions course, where…
Fellowship Matters: Remarkable Scholars and Their Supporters (Laura Sofen) First-year doctoral student in Chemistry, Laura Sofen is the recipient of the 2015 Joe Lurie Returning Peace Corps Volunteer Gateway Fellowship, which provides room and board at International House.
SAGE-IGERT Fellowship Program — 10/19/15 The SAGE-IGERT Fellowship Program supports technology developments that will enable the conservation generation, or storage of clean energy, as well as innovative…
Anti-Malarial Drug and DNA-Editing Technique Earn Two Cal Profs Academic Invention Honors Cal professors named National Academy of Inventor fellows.
ORISE Fellowship Opportunity at Center for Disease Control and Prevention — 1/16/2015 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH), Division of Laboratory Sciences (DLS) are seeking ORISE…
Meet David Spiciarich, UC Berkeley Chemistry Student and Lindau Fellow Spiciarich was nominated in 2012 to represent the US at the annual meeting of Nobel Laureates in Lindau, Germany, along with a selected group of graduate students.
Faculty honored at Graduate Mentoring Awards ceremony The seventh annual Graduate Mentoring Awards ceremony honored members of the faculty selected for their outstanding commitment to help graduate students succeed academically, professionally, and personally.
Joanne Wood Scholarship — 4/12/2013 This scholarship was established to assist exceptional students with financial need in obtaining a masters or graduate degree in: business, mathematics, computer science, biology, physics or chemistry.
Switzer Environmental Fellowship — 1/10/2013 The Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation specifically seeks innovators and problem-solvers who have the ability, determination, and integrity to become environmental leaders in the 21st century.
Berkeley Academic Senate’s 2012 top honor goes to former chancellor Robert Berdahl and professor-alumna Marian Diamond At a dinner in May, the UC Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate gave its highest honor, the Clark Kerr Award, to two people with high-profile connections to the Berkeley campus, Robert M. Berdahl, who was Berkeley's eighth chancellor, and Marian C. Diamond, professor emeritus of integrative biology and a world-renowned brain researcher.
Mark Gorrell Zero Waste Graduate Fellowship — Open Deadline One word: Plastics The purpose of this award, up to $2,000 for the 2012-2013 academic year, is to support graduate student research…
LBNL director Paul Alivisatos (Ph.D. ’86) wins the Wolf Prize in Chemistry for 2012 Paul Alivisatos, director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and a UC Berkeley professor of nanotechnology, has won the prestigious Wolf Foundation Prize in Chemistry for 2012.
294 GSIs are celebrated as officially “Outstanding” Of the many, many GSIs on campus, nearly 300 were singled out as Outstanding Graduate Student Instructors by the Graduate Division's GSI Center --- and 10 GSIs were given special recognition for their innovative solutions to teaching problems.
Einhorn, Geissler, and Puckett are officially Distinguished The Berkeley campus's most prestigious award for teaching, the Distinguished Teaching Award is intended to encourage and recognize individual excellence in that endeavor. This year, the recipients were Robin Einhorn of professor of history, Phillip Geissler associate professor of chemistry (whose 2000 Ph.D. is from Berkeley), and Kent Puckett, associate professor of English.
Chemistry, 1980 or thereabouts The trip back to 1980 (or so) in this photo is fascinating enough. It takes us right into the clothing and hair styles of the era, and the equipment, and the scientists' oneness with with the apparatus. But a lot has happened since then.
Michael P. Wilson, (M.P.H. ’98, Ph.D. ’03) Wins Coveted Switzer Prize Michael P. Wilson has been a member of the Switzer Network since receiving a Switzer Foundation fellowship in 2002. He is on the cutting edge of the emerging field of green chemistry. A product of the environmental health sciences program at the School of Public Health (M.P.H. '98, Ph.D. '03), he has been a research scientist at the school's Center for Occupational and Environmental Health since receiving his doctorate.