Aaron Streets has been named to the inaugural class of Science Diversity Leadership Award winners, a new partnership between the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. The program aims to recognize and further the leadership of excellent biomedical researchers who — through their outreach, mentoring, teaching, and leadership — have a record of promoting diversity, equity and inclusion in their scientific fields.

Newly discovered chunks of DNA may help archaea remove methane from soils, and could one day help reduce atmospheric levels of this potent greenhouse gas.

The age of Yosemite Valley has been hard to pin down. UC Berkeley geologists now say it's younger than we thought, with most of it carved out over the past 5 to 10 million years.

Professor Aaron Streets has been named to Popular Science’s Brilliant 10, a list honoring trailblazing early-career scientists and engineers who are tackling pressing challenges with innovative solutions. Streets is bioengineering's Vice-Chair of Undergraduate Affairs, Faculty Director of the BioEngineering Scholars Program, and a talented researcher who combines mathematics, physics and engineering to develop novel tools for precision measurement of biological systems.

Register here to attend our Integrative Biology PhD Program Info Session at the UC Berkeley Graduate Diversity Admissions Fair. Our info session will be October 18, 2022 from 2-3pm PST. Attendance is totally free!

 

A new study links changing climate conditions to the recent surge in cases of coccidioidomycosis, also known as Valley Fever

A new UC Berkeley study suggests that in many cases, age plays a more important role than genetics in determining which genes in our bodies are turned on or off, influencing our susceptibility to disease.

As governments race to limit greenhouse gas emissions, a new study reveals the political factors that impact how countries respond to energy challenges

Bertozzi, who shared the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, received her Ph.D. from Berkeley. She later became a professor in the College of Chemistry, where she conducting her seminal work.

In 1972, the late Stuart Freedman and John Clauser showed that the predictions of quantum mechanics are real. Clauser shared the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics for this work.

Using a variety of catalysts, the process disassembles the plastic polymer to produce propylene molecules, the building blocks of polypropylene plastics

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Five Bioengineering PhD students have been named Siebel Scholars of the class of 2023: Jordan Baker, Kelsey Gray DeFrates, Juan Eduardo Hurtado, Gabriela Lomeli, and Connor Tsuchida. The Siebel Scholars program annually recognizes top students at the world’s leading graduate schools of bioengineering, business, computer science and energy science.

The Bakar Institute of Digital Materials for the Planet (BIDMaP) will bring together top machine learning and chemistry researchers to develop new materials for capturing carbon dioxide

A new analysis of water quality data from California’s Kern Valley State Prison and neighboring rural communities found water safety issues on both sides of prison walls

UC Berkeley engineers have created a simple and low-cost new arsenic treatment system to help low-income communities access safer water

The Vallee Foundation is delighted to announce the six 2022 Vallee Scholars. The Vallee Scholar program continues to provide unrestricted funding for national and international early career researchers at a critical stage in their tenure-track careers.

The Vallee Foundation is delighted to announce the six 2022 Vallee Scholars. The Vallee Scholar program continues to provide unrestricted funding for national and international early career researchers at a critical stage in their tenure-track careers.