Department of Chemistry

The White House honored campus professors Darleane Hoffman and Gabor Somorjai on Tuesday with the Enrico Fermi Presidential Award, one of the government’s “oldest and prestigious” awards. 

Richmond Sarpong from the College of Chemistry received the 2021 Edward Leete Award for his research and teachings within the field of organic chemistry.

Several faculty and students received the inaugural Berkeley Changemaker Technology Innovation Grants for technological innovation projects.

The Innovative Genomics Institute, or IGI, and UC Berkeley have founded a lab to process diagnostic tests in response to the COVID-19, or the new coronavirus, pandemic.

The ARWU also named UC Berkeley the fifth best university in the world, behind Harvard University, Stanford University, the University of Cambridge and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. UC Berkeley ranked 5th overall last year, which was its lowest rank since the ARWU was first published in 2003.

Strips of carbon synthesized by UC Berkeley professors to be nearly 10,000 times thinner than the width of a human hair could accelerate the transportation of data at unprecedented speeds, with far-reaching implications into the fields of technology and medicine.