A Crown Jewel of Education Struggles With Cuts
Nov 19 (NYTimes.com)
As the University of California struggles to absorb its sharpest drop in state financing since the Great Depression, every professor, administrator and clerical worker has been put on furlough amounting to an average pay cut of 8 percent.

Paul Alivisatos named director of Berkeley Lab
Nov 19 (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
The University of California Board of Regents has named Paul Alivisatos director of the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, which is managed by the university.

Vibrations key to efficiency of green fluorescent protein
Nov 12 (UC Berkeley Press Release)
University of California, Berkeley, chemists have discovered the secret to the success of a jellyfish protein whose green glow has made it the darling of biologists and the subject of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The researchers' study of green fluorescent protein (GFP) and the structural changes it undergoes when it fluoresces is the cover story of the Nov. 12 issue of the journal Nature.
Related Nature article: Making the paper: Richard Mathies

Chris Chang wins AstraZeneca Award
Nov 12
Professor of Chemistry Chris Chang has won the 2009 AstraZeneca Excellence in Chemistry Award. The award is presented to two talented academic researchers who have demonstrated distinct potential in synthetic, mechanistic, or bioorganic chemistry.

Hyper-SAGE Boosts Remote MRI Sensitivity
Oct 08 (LBNL News)
A new technique in Magnetic Resonance Imaging dubbed "Hyper-SAGE" has the potential to detect ultra low concentrations of clincal targets, such as lung and other cancers. Development of Hyper-SAGE was led by one of the world's foremost authorities on MRI technology, Alexander Pines.

College of Chemistry steers course to sustainable 'green' chemistry
Oct 08 (UC Berkeley Press Release)
The College of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, is making major new commitments to advance research and education in sustainable, green chemistry.

College enrollment rises slightly over previous year
Sept 28
Despite state and university budget woes, the number of new and continuing students in the College of Chemistry has risen slightly.

Superheavy Element 114 Confirmed: A Stepping Stone to the Island of Stability
Sept 24 (LBNL News Center)
Scientists Heino Nitsche and and Ken Gregorich at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have been able to confirm the production of the superheavy element 114.