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Undergraduate Experience: Sean Nguyen

April 27, 2021
Name: Sean Nguyen Year: Graduating May 2021, School of Natural Sciences Commencement Student Speaker Major: Chemistry Hometown: San Jose What clubs or organizations were you part of at UC Merced? I was in the Vietnamese Student Association (VSA) and INTRO Movement Dance Team. What is a memorable...

Professor Berhe Nominated to Lead Federal Office of Science

April 22, 2021
President Joe Biden has nominated UC Merced Professor Asmeret Asefaw Berhe to be the new director of the Office of Science in the federal Department of Energy. In honor of Earth Day, the White House today announced nominations for a variety of federal posts in the departments of Energy,...

Shayna Bennett Wins Grad Slam at UC Merced

April 21, 2021
Applied Mathematics graduate student Shayna Bennett will represent UC Merced at the University of California Grad Slam finals on May 7. For the campus’s Grad Slam final round, Bennett presented her dissertation research, “A New Tool to Fight Invasive Species,” in just three minutes and earned first...

COVID Deaths Among Latino Immigrants Soared by 90%

April 14, 2021

#GirlPower: UC Merced Women's Volleyball Team

April 14, 2021

Collaboration Furthers Understanding of Immune Cell Development

April 12, 2021
Immunology Professor Jennifer Manilay and bioengineering Professor Joel Spencer are using a new grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to expand a project they’ve been working on for the past two years — delving into the immune systems of living mice to see how B-cells develop under...

Black Lives Matter Co-Founder to Receive Spendlove Prize

April 8, 2021

Why an Intense Fire Season May Be Shaping Up in 2021

April 8, 2021

Five Years in, CCBM Looking to Expand Research and Student Opportunities

April 7, 2021
From graduate student Jose Zamora’s perspective, the CREST Center for Cellular and Biomolecular Machines (CCBM) has been a spectacular success. “There is so much value to being part of the CCBM,” said Zamora, who began as an undergrad Scholar when the center opened and is now a graduate Fellow...

UC Merced Among Top 20 Economically Diverse National Universities

April 7, 2021

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