http://newscenter.berkeley.edu News from the University of California, Berkeley Tue, 21 May 2013 18:07:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/09/heady-mathematics-describing-popping-bubbles-in-a-foam/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/09/heady-mathematics-describing-popping-bubbles-in-a-foam/#comments Thu, 09 May 2013 18:00:30 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34624 Applied mathematicians James Sethian and Robert Saye from UC Berkeley and Berkeley Lab have discovered a way to mathematically describe the evolution of bubbles in a foam, and have used the equations to create a computer-generated video showing how the process proceeds. ]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/09/heady-mathematics-describing-popping-bubbles-in-a-foam/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.lbl.gov/science-shorts/2013/05/08/melvin-calvin-moon-dust/ http://newscenter.lbl.gov/science-shorts/2013/05/08/melvin-calvin-moon-dust/#comments Wed, 08 May 2013 17:30:36 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34621 Some 44 years ago, the late chemist Melvin Calvin and colleagues at the Space Sciences Laboratory analyzed moon dust brought back by Apollo 11 and 12, published a paper, and then stashed the dust on a shelf. Archivists at Berkeley Lab rediscovered the precious material, vacuum sealed in a jar, and have returned it to NASA.]]> http://newscenter.lbl.gov/science-shorts/2013/05/08/melvin-calvin-moon-dust/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/04/24/ten-uc-berkeley-faculty-named-to-american-academy-of-arts-sciences/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/04/24/ten-uc-berkeley-faculty-named-to-american-academy-of-arts-sciences/#comments Wed, 24 Apr 2013 17:17:28 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34527 Ten Berkeley professors have been named members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a prestigious 233-year-old honorary society of national leaders from academia, business, public affairs and the humanities.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/04/24/ten-uc-berkeley-faculty-named-to-american-academy-of-arts-sciences/feed/ 0 http://cen.acs.org/articles/91/i6/Herbert-C-Brown-Award-Creative.html http://cen.acs.org/articles/91/i6/Herbert-C-Brown-Award-Creative.html#comments Wed, 06 Mar 2013 17:42:06 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34143 The American Chemical Society awarded UC Berkeley chemist John Hartwig its Herbert C. Brown Award For Creative Research In Synthetic Methods “for the creative discovery and insightful development of fundamentally new, broadly utilized" chemical reactions, such as syntheses using transition metals as catalysts.]]> http://cen.acs.org/articles/91/i6/Herbert-C-Brown-Award-Creative.html/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/03/05/research-news-briefs-did-comets-seed-life-on-earth/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/03/05/research-news-briefs-did-comets-seed-life-on-earth/#comments Mon, 04 Mar 2013 16:31:44 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34121 UC Berkeley and University of Hawaii scientists have shown that complex molecules can form on icy rocks in space, suggesting that comets may have seeded early Earth with the building blocks of life. The team zapped icy snowballs of carbon dioxide and hydrocarbons, producing complex molecules, such as dipeptides, that are capable of catalyzing the formation of more complex structures.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/03/05/research-news-briefs-did-comets-seed-life-on-earth/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2013/02/11/new-details-on-egfr/ http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2013/02/11/new-details-on-egfr/#comments Fri, 15 Feb 2013 21:01:26 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34036 Chemist Jay Groves and colleagues at Berkeley Lab have used cutting-edge tools to reveal the workings of the epidermal growth factor receptor, which is screwed up in numerous cancers. Their picture of how the receptor changes structure when activated could help scientists understand other cancer triggers.]]> http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2013/02/11/new-details-on-egfr/feed/ 0 http://www.lbl.gov/LBL-Programs/nanohigh/ http://www.lbl.gov/LBL-Programs/nanohigh/#comments Thu, 31 Jan 2013 19:15:03 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=33948 UC Berkeley sugar chemist Carolyn Bertozzi is the next speaker (Sat., Feb. 2, 10 a.m.) in the Nano-High series of talks sponsored by Berkeley Lab and held periodically this semester in Stanley Hall. Any high school student or teacher can sign up online and then drop in to hear about cutting-edge scientific issues of the day.]]> http://www.lbl.gov/LBL-Programs/nanohigh/feed/ 0 http://chemistry.berkeley.edu/publications/news/2013/frechet_wins_2013_japan_prize.php http://chemistry.berkeley.edu/publications/news/2013/frechet_wins_2013_japan_prize.php#comments Wed, 30 Jan 2013 05:00:23 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=33896 Emeritus professor Jean Fréchet, a Professor of the Graduate School in chemistry and chemical and biological engineering, has received a 2013 Japan Prize, one of the most prestigious international awards in science and technology.]]> http://chemistry.berkeley.edu/publications/news/2013/frechet_wins_2013_japan_prize.php/feed/ 0 http://www.nasonline.org/news-and-multimedia/news/jan-7-2013-NASawards.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20nationalacademies%2Fna%20%28News%20from%20the%20National%20Academies%29 http://www.nasonline.org/news-and-multimedia/news/jan-7-2013-NASawards.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20nationalacademies%2Fna%20%28News%20from%20the%20National%20Academies%29#comments Wed, 09 Jan 2013 18:55:18 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=33800 The National Academy of Sciences, the country's most prestigious scientific organization, has honored UC Berkeley chemist Gabor Somorjai and mathematician John Lott for major contributions to science. ]]> http://www.nasonline.org/news-and-multimedia/news/jan-7-2013-NASawards.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20nationalacademies%2Fna%20%28News%20from%20the%20National%20Academies%29/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/12/19/year-in-review-2012/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/12/19/year-in-review-2012/#comments Wed, 19 Dec 2012 18:21:27 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=33594 New faces, new vitality, reflection and celebration — 2012 brought all that, and more, to UC Berkeley. Here's a glance back at the year, in pictures.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/12/19/year-in-review-2012/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/11/29/four-faculty-members-named-fellows-of-aaas/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/11/29/four-faculty-members-named-fellows-of-aaas/#comments Thu, 29 Nov 2012 20:23:11 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=33565 Four UC Berkeley faculty members - plant biologist Sheng Luan, cell biologist Kunxin Luo, nuclear engineer Eric Norman and chemist Evan Williams - are among 702 new fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, bringing the campus total to 227.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/11/29/four-faculty-members-named-fellows-of-aaas/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/11/07/discovery-resurrects-process-to-convert-sugar-directly-to-diesel/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/11/07/discovery-resurrects-process-to-convert-sugar-directly-to-diesel/#comments Wed, 07 Nov 2012 18:45:21 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=33382 A long-abandoned fermentation process is being resurrected by UC Berkeley chemists and chemical engineers to produce compounds to feed a catalytic reaction that produces a fuel that looks and acts just like diesel. The fuel has a higher energy content than ethanol, and could help replace nonrenewable transportation fuels.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/11/07/discovery-resurrects-process-to-convert-sugar-directly-to-diesel/feed/ 0 http://chemistry.berkeley.edu/publications/news/2012/hal-johnston-atmospheric-chemist-has-died.php http://chemistry.berkeley.edu/publications/news/2012/hal-johnston-atmospheric-chemist-has-died.php#comments Fri, 02 Nov 2012 21:15:21 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=33385 Harold “Hal” Johnston, professor emeritus of chemistry who in the 1970s was thrust into the limelight after publishing research suggesting that aircraft emissions could deplete atmospheric ozone, died peacefully at his home in Kensington on Oct. 20. He was 92. He was a recpient of the National Medal of Science and several awards for service to society.]]> http://chemistry.berkeley.edu/publications/news/2012/hal-johnston-atmospheric-chemist-has-died.php/feed/ 0 http://www.heinrich-wieland-preis.de/ http://www.heinrich-wieland-preis.de/#comments Thu, 25 Oct 2012 19:18:41 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=33324 Carolyn Bertozzi, the T. Z. and Irmgard Chu Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, has been awarded the 2012 Heinrich Wieland Prize for her work on the chemistry of sugars. The prize, accompanied by 50,000 euros, is awarded yearly by the Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation in Germany for biologically and clinically important research.]]> http://www.heinrich-wieland-preis.de/feed/ 0 http://chemistry.berkeley.edu/publications/news/2012/bcgc-wins-training-grant.php http://chemistry.berkeley.edu/publications/news/2012/bcgc-wins-training-grant.php#comments Wed, 29 Aug 2012 17:23:40 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=32817 The Berkeley Center for Green Chemistry has been awarded a $3.4 million training grant by the National Science Foundation. The grant will train five to six Ph.D. students annually for five years in the principles of green chemistry and the design of clean energy technologies.]]> http://chemistry.berkeley.edu/publications/news/2012/bcgc-wins-training-grant.php/feed/ 0 http://www2.ccny.cuny.edu/advancement/news/Rewriting-Quantum-Chips-with-a-Beam-of-Light.cfm http://www2.ccny.cuny.edu/advancement/news/Rewriting-Quantum-Chips-with-a-Beam-of-Light.cfm#comments Wed, 27 Jun 2012 23:26:26 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=32301 The promise of ultrafast quantum computing has moved a step closer to reality with a technique to create rewritable computer chips using a beam of light. College of Chemistry professor Jeffrey Reimer and researchers from The City College of New York used light to control the spin of an atom’s nucleus in order to encode information.]]> http://www2.ccny.cuny.edu/advancement/news/Rewriting-Quantum-Chips-with-a-Beam-of-Light.cfm/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/06/27/uc-berkeley-installing-first-co2-sensor-network-in-oakland/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/06/27/uc-berkeley-installing-first-co2-sensor-network-in-oakland/#comments Wed, 27 Jun 2012 18:20:39 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=28826 Using inexpensive detectors that can fit inside a shoebox, UC Berkeley chemists are installing carbon dioxide and other air pollution sensors in 40 sites around Oakland to explore how detailed, neighborhood-by-neighborhood information can help communities monitor greenhouse gas and other harmful emissions.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/06/27/uc-berkeley-installing-first-co2-sensor-network-in-oakland/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/05/27/computer-model-pinpoints-prime-materials-for-efficient-carbon-capture/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/05/27/computer-model-pinpoints-prime-materials-for-efficient-carbon-capture/#comments Sun, 27 May 2012 17:00:29 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=30332 To slow the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, and thus slow climate change, electric power plants will eventually have to start capturing their carbon dioxide emissions and burying them underground. Chemist Berend Smit and colleagues are working with the power industry to find the best materials to capture and sequester carbon dioxide.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/05/27/computer-model-pinpoints-prime-materials-for-efficient-carbon-capture/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/05/01/four-uc-berkeley-scientists-elected-to-national-academy-of-sciences/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/05/01/four-uc-berkeley-scientists-elected-to-national-academy-of-sciences/#comments Tue, 01 May 2012 19:10:47 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=29561 Four University of California, Berkeley, faculty members – physicists John Clarke and Bernard Sadoulet, chemist John Hartwig and ecologist Mary Power – have been elected members or foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences, bringing UC Berkeley's total NAS membership to 141.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/05/01/four-uc-berkeley-scientists-elected-to-national-academy-of-sciences/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/04/02/fertilizer-use-responsible-for-increase-in-nitrous-oxide-in-atmosphere/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/04/02/fertilizer-use-responsible-for-increase-in-nitrous-oxide-in-atmosphere/#comments Mon, 02 Apr 2012 16:40:22 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=27655 UC Berkeley chemists have analyzed the isotopic composition of nitrous oxide – a greenhouse gas - in air samples from as far back as 1940 and found the fingerprint of nitrogen-based fertilizer, proving definitively that the 20 percent increase in atmospheric nitrogen since the Industrial Revolution is largely due to the Green Revolution.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/04/02/fertilizer-use-responsible-for-increase-in-nitrous-oxide-in-atmosphere/feed/ 0