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Winston’s Innovative Project Highlights UC Solar Symposium

September 22, 2016
UC Merced Professor Roland Winston will deliver details on a groundbreaking hybrid solar collector he’s working on that simultaneously generates electricity and very-high-temperature heat at the annual 2016 UC Solar Research Symposium slated for Oct. 7 at UC Davis. The ...

Computational Training Expanding at UC Merced Through New Grants

September 21, 2016
Graduate students at the University of California, Merced, will benefit from extensive new research, funding and training opportunities, thanks to two National Science Foundation (NSF) grants totaling more than $3.25 million. Interdisciplinary groups of computational sciences researchers won...

Now a Dentist, Alum Embodied Campus’s Founding Spirit

August 29, 2016
Looking back on his years as one of the first students at UC Merced, Vinh Vo remembers how the brand-new university served him not only as a student, but also by preparing him for graduate school and his current career as a dentist. Vo, who graduated in 2009 with a bachelor’s degree in...

New Research Center to Leverage High-Performance Computing Hardware

August 8, 2016
Faculty members from the Electrical Engineering and Computer ScienceOpens a New Window., Chemistry and Chemical BiologyOpens a New Window. and Mechanical EngineeringOpens a New Window. groups are forming the newest research center at UC Merced, seeking the best ways to...

Professor’s Early Career Work Recognized With Award

August 1, 2016
Professor Jessica Blois is the newest recipient of the International Biogeography Society’s MacArthur & Wilson Award recognizing early career work and contributions to biogeography. Blois, a paleoecologist with the School of Natural Sciences, is the only...

Alumnus Expands Science Literacy Nonprofit to South America

July 25, 2016
A science literacy nonprofit created by UC Merced students is gaining an international foothold with planned expansion into classrooms in Ecuador. Growth is nothing new for BEAT — short for Biology, Engineering, Agriculture and Technology — but jumping the border is a...

Students Show Climate Impacts, Pitch Solutions in UC-wide Contest

June 27, 2016
Several students, faculty members and the provost represented UC Merced at the University of California’s recent Carbon Slam event, placing in the presentation competitions and increasing the campus’s visibility among peers and the public. Professors Michael Dawson, ...

Recognizing SNS Staff that Shine

June 24, 2016
On June 24th the School of Natural Sciences held its third Annual Staff Award event that recognized staff that demonstrate the highest levels of commitment and dedication to the School of Natural Sciences and the university. Two categories of awards were handed out, one to recognize individual...

Ruiz, Lenaburg Campus's First CalTeach Grads

May 13, 2016
Stephanie Ruiz and Carisza Lenaburg will be among the many UC Merced students earning bachelor’s degrees at this weekend’s commencement ceremonies. Unlike their fellow graduates, however, Ruiz and Lenaburg will also be graduating with single-subject teaching credentials from UC Berkeley...

Campus’s First Undocumented Doctoral Recipient Gets to the Heart of the Matter

May 11, 2016
A doctoral degree is something to be proud of. It is the culmination of years of study and hard work — a mark of determination, willpower and excellence in research and scholarship. For Quantitative and Systems Biology graduate student Yuriana Aguilar and the growing population of...

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