About Berkeley Lab

In the world of science, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) is synonymous with “excellence.”

Berkeley Lab was founded in 1931 by Ernest Orlando Lawrence, a UC Berkeley physicist who won the 1939 Nobel Prize in physics for his invention of the cyclotron. It was Lawrence’s belief that scientific research is best done through teams of individuals with different fields of expertise, working together. His teamwork concept is a Berkeley Lab legacy that continues today. Berkeley Lab performs unclassified research across a wide range of scientific disciplines, including Earth and environmental sciences, computational sciences, biosciences, physics, energy technologies and energy sciences. Thirteen Nobel prizes are associated with Berkeley Lab. Seventy Lab scientists are members of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), one of the highest honors for a scientist in the United States, and many others have been recipients of other prestigious awards. Berkeley Lab has also trained thousands of university science and engineering students who are advancing technological innovations across the nation and around the world. A key goal of Berkeley Lab is to develop a diverse future scientific workforce. As CSUEB’s student body is the most diverse in the state, this institution is a natural partner for Berkeley Lab, and this pilot project is intended to nucleate this partnership.