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Professor Helps Identify New Giant Galapagos Tortoise Species

October 22, 2015
Professor Danielle Edwards is part of a team of researchers that made a huge discovery recently about two groups of giant Galapagos tortoises — they are actually two different species. The team’s paper, entitled “Description of a new Galapagos Giant Tortoise Species (...

Professor’s Invention Helps Scientists Win Nobel Prize

October 16, 2015
Professor Roland Winston has been tracking the Sudbury Neutrino Experiment since it began in the 1980s, because he invented the light collectors the scientists built to detect solar neutrinos.   “I just wanted to make sure they worked,” he said....

ASM Undergraduate Research Fellowship Awarded to Natural Sciences Student

October 7, 2015
The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) has awarded Adam Fishburn the 2015 ASM Undergraduate Research Fellowship. This competitive fellowship provides the opportunity for Adam to conduct research during the summer with his ASM mentor, Dr. Clarissa Nobile, Assistant Professor. The...

Event Connects High School Girls with Female Scientists

October 6, 2015
While many young women her age are thinking about their favorite shoes or who they’ll go with to the winter formal, Callie Nance, 15, is thinking about her favorite science organizations and her future as a physicist. That’s why the Dinner with a Scientist event at UC Merced last...

New Nanomaterials Taking Research to Mexico, Possibly into Space

September 28, 2015
Professors Linda Hirst and Sayantani Ghosh are combining liquid crystals with nanoparticles such as gold and quantum dots to come up with a new platform that could have applications in fields such as optics and medicine. And the two new grants the School of Natural...

Dean Meza's new blog

September 26, 2015
I'm delighted to introduce our new web site. We have made a major overhaul to our site based largely on feedback we have been hearing from you.   Read Dean Meza's first post here.

Video | Discover UC Merced: Emily C. Wilson’s Creativity Meets Research

December 18, 2014
Ph.D. candidate Emily Wilson discovered her passion for research in the natural sciences as an undergraduate student, fueled by a collaboration with the engineering dean and her powerful creative spirit. Collaborating with a dean – especially an interdisciplinary collaboration – is...

Undergrads Get One-of-a-Kind Experience through NanoBIO Program

December 15, 2014
For the University of California, Merced, students in this year’s nanoBIO internships and research program, working with something extremely small could have huge implications. “I had no idea nanotechnology could have so many applications in biology,” said John Harvey...

Ph.D. Student Beats Odds to Put Science and Community First

December 1, 2014
The odds were stacked against Ruben Rodriguez. When the 27-year-old UC Merced student was still in high school, he was confronted with a sobering statistic that Hispanics receive only 5 percent of all doctorates awarded. “That’s always stayed with me,” said Rodriguez, who...

Faculty Hires Increase Scope of Research Expertise

October 7, 2014
The School of Natural Sciences has hired nine faculty members for the 2014-15 academic year, bringing the total number of tenure-track faculty to more than 70. Four of the nine new hires are women, which is one example of how UC Merced is ahead of the curve in academia. According to a 2011 report...

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