2026 Faculty Award for Excellence in Postdoctoral Mentoring Winner
In nominating Chemistry Professor Dean Toste for the 2026 Faculty Award for Excellence in Postdoctoral Mentoring, his postdoc highlighted Toste's transformative mentorship, which balances scientific rigor with genuine personal investment. Despite leading a diverse research group of over 70 members, Toste...
Aditi S. Krishnapriyan, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, has received the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award.
Dr. Krishnapriyan's award-winning research advances one of the College of Chemistry's core pillars: unlocking information for transformational discovery. Modern breakthroughs, whether they are designing clean energy materials or accelerating targeted drug...
The Agentic AI Summit 2026 will take place August 1–2 at UC Berkeley, bringing together leading voices from academia, industry, startups, and venture to explore the future of agentic AI.
The UK’s national academy of sciences, known as the Royal Society, today elected more than 90 new members from around the world, including three from UC Berkeley.
The state-of-the-art facility will be the new home of the UC Berkeley College of Computing, Data Science, and Society, promoting cross-collaboration and accelerating AI-driven discovery.
UC Berkeley freshman Daniel Li, a double major in Chemistry and Data Science, has been awarded the prestigious 2026 Blumenkranz Summer Research Stipend from the College of Chemistry. The award will support his upcoming work at...
Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and BIDMaP director, Christian Borgs, has been awarded an honorary doctorate from Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), recognizing his foundational contributions to network science, probability theory...
A team led by 2025 chemistry Nobel laureate Omar Yaghi has developed an artificial intelligence agent to speed the discovery of covalent organic frameworks (COFs). The AI agent acts as a lab assistant—automating the research process from...
Aditi Krishnapriyan, a faculty scientist in Berkeley Lab’s Applied Mathematics and Computational Research Division (AMCR) and assistant professor at UC Berkeley, has been awarded a prestigious 2025...
Civilisations name their ages after materials. In school, we learn about the Stone Age, the Bronze Age – and we are currently in a silicon age characterised by computers and phones. What might define the next age?
A new material developed by BIDMaP researchers captures CO₂ from outdoor air with unprecedented speed, marking a critical leap toward practical direct air capture technology...
Just three years after its launch, BIDMaP has translated an ambitious vision into reality. Teams have built autonomous laboratories that learn from experimentation, contributed to...
Omar Yaghi’s pioneering work on metal-organic frameworks opened up a new class of transformative materials. Researchers at Berkeley Lab and its DOE user facilities are designing MOFs for next...
A multi-institution research team has unveiled AIRES (Algorithmic Iterative Reticular Synthesis), a powerful AI-driven platform designed to dramatically speed up the discovery of new...
