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	<title>Catalyst &#187; Vol. 6 No. 2</title>
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		<title>On the cover: Vol 6 No 2</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The cover displays a portion of a collage depicting the life of Glenn Seaborg produced by Roy Kaltschmidt of LBNL. The full collage now hangs in the reception area of the dean’s office in Latimer Hall.]]></description>
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		<title>Dean&#8217;s Desk: New faculty, new endowed chairs, new labs, and a focus on sustainability</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:14:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This fall we welcomed Assistant Professors Felix Fischer and David Savage to the Chemistry Department and Wenjun Zhang to the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. I am also pleased that Professors Anne Baranger and John Hartwig have joined the chemistry department. Omar Yaghi, an international leader in nanotechnology research, has been named director of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chemistry News: Terrific department but infrastructure needs work</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:13:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Daniel M. Neumark Chair, Department of Chemistry Joel B. Hildebrand Distinguished Professor Eighteen months into my chairmanship, I am starting to realize that I may just get the hang of this job about the time that I step down. Several truths are becoming evident, the most important being that any time that I feel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering News:  Off to an energetic start</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:12:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Douglas S. Clark Chair, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Warren and Katharine Schlinger Distinguished Professor It is a pleasure to be writing my first column for Catalyst. I assumed the role of Chair on July 1, following in the footsteps of my friend and colleague, Jeff Reimer. That transition marked another first of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Science is in her RNA</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:11:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The College of Chemistry’s undergraduate curriculum must serve many masters. In addition to its own students, the college offers required courses that teach the fundamentals of chemistry to students in engineering, biology and other disciplines. The college’s curriculum must also serve society. That means adapting courses to reflect changes in industry practices, environmental standards, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nuclear chemistry in the age of climate change</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:10:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From any corner of UC Berkeley’s College of Chemistry campus, it’s a short walk to the third floor of Gilman Hall. There, outside of room 307, a large bronze plaque hangs on the wall. It was in this room in 1941 that Glenn Seaborg first isolated the element plutonium. In 1951 Seaborg and Berkeley physicist [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seaborg&#8217;s legacy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:09:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Our success in chemistry, and science in general, over the past century, and especially the last few decades, has brought us to a high level of material affluence, but this success also has fostered many new problems for the world. It has given many people the notion that science should move us toward a utopian, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Darleane Hoffman: Adventures in the nature of matter</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:08:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Darleane Hoffman was born in the small town of Terril, located in Dickinson County in northwest Iowa. Her parents, Carl and Elverna Christian, had moved there as newlyweds in 1925 when Carl was selected as superintendent of the consolidated public school there. It was his first position as a superintendent. Terril has a population of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heino Nitsche: Islands of Stability</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:07:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For Californians, it is easy to imagine that the life of the scholar in Germany must be something traditional and stately, like the Rhine River flowing quietly to the North Sea. That is not a good description of the career of Heino Nitsche, who was born in Munich in 1949. His life is more like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nuclear Power&#8217;s Future</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:06:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A conversation with Per Peterson, the chair of Berkeley’s Department of Nuclear Engineering. Some environmental organizations are proposing that the world’s future energy needs can be met without fossil fuels and without nuclear power. Per Peterson, the chair of UC Berkeley’s nuclear engineering department, ponders that for a moment and replies, “Do you really want [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Q &amp; A: The San Onofre nuclear generating station</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In California, two nuclear power plants supply about 20 percent of the state’s electricity. Pacific Gas and Electric runs the Diablo Canyon Power Plant near San Luis Obispo. Southern Consolidated Edison runs the San Onofre Nuclear Power Generating Station (SONGS) near the northern border of San Diego County. Each plant houses two working reactors. On [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New &amp; Notable Vol. 6 No. 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:04:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Research, Views, Discoveries, &#38; Awards JBEI/DOE: Bacteria engineered to make transportation fuels A milestone has been reached on the road to developing advanced biofuels that can replace gasoline, diesel and jet fuels with a domestically-produced clean, green renewable alternative. Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Joint BioEnergy Institute have engineered the first strains of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Class Notes Vol. 6 No. 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:03:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Compiled by Dorothy Read &#8217;58 Rupert C. Stechman (B.S. ChemE) retired as a chief engineer after 53 years in the aerospace industry, 52 of which were with the same company (with many name changes, including Marquardt, Primex Aerospace, General Dynamics, and Aerojet), designing and developing small rocket engines for Apollo, Space Shuttle, Orion, and satellites. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Memoriam</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:02:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former Advisory Board Member John G. Davies (J.D. ’62, Law) , a former member of the College of Chemistry’s Advisory Board, passed away on May 20, 2011. Deeply involved in politics, urban development, and other civic concerns since his days at Cal, he was a long-time resident of San Diego and led efforts to revitalize [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Donor Profile: Steve Sciamanna and Ron Silva on Giving Back</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Certain numbers evoke special memories. For you, maybe it is the address of a favorite house where you lived while growing up, or maybe it’s the old phone number of a high school sweetheart. For many College of Chemistry alums of the Free Radicals era (1964–79), that special number is 2-12-50. Back in the 1970s, [...]]]></description>
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