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Gaming Graphics Changing How Computational Science is Conducted

December 7, 2012
Professor Christine Isborn is doing quantum chemistry at the speed of graphics. Isborn is using the same graphics computer cards (graphical processing units, or  GPUs) that make your Playstation games so realistic and movie-like to turn her regular old computer into a superfast...

Internship Gives Undergrads Journal Experience

November 30, 2012
The undergraduate students in Professor Linda Hirst’s new internship course are getting an advanced education in science communications that could serve them well in their future careers. By condensing the latest scientific papers for Hirst’s Soft Matter World website, Science...

UC Merced Researcher, Graduate Student, Contribute to Inventory of All Marine Life

November 29, 2012
Counting the number of species that live in the Earth’s oceans sounds as impossible as counting the grains of sand on a beach. But a global collaboration involving a UC Merced researcher and a graduate student is doing just that, and found that about a third of all the oceans’...

Fluid Dynamics And Mathematics Used To Study Penguin Huddles

November 19, 2012
By Alan McStravick for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online If you fell in love with the movie “March of the Penguins”, you are in good company. Francois Blanchette, a mathematician at the University of California – Merced (UCM) found inspiration in this masterful and...

Graduate Studies: A lifetime of discovery [VIDEO]

November 15, 2012
UC Merced is where you will take the next steps into your future, whether your interests lie in the sciences, engineering, social sciences or humanities.    

Inaugural Managers to Lead New Vernal Pool Reserve

November 8, 2012
Chris Swarth (pictured here), experienced reserve manager, and Steve Shackelton, former national parks leader, hired to shepherd acreage into a UC reserve, develop educational and research programs The effort to create a natural reserve out of nearly 6,000 acres adjacent to UC Merced has...

Chemistry Professor Making the Most of his Waste

November 1, 2012
Chemistry Professor Jason Hein and his students make a lot of compounds in the lab. They also make a lot of chemical waste. But Hein found a way to clean up the waste and reuse it, saving money and helping the environment at the same time. “I’m very excited about this project,...

Big Change a Chance for Big Opportunities for Grad Student

October 29, 2012
Chicagoan Chelsea Carey (pictured on the right) faced quite a change in choosing UC Merced for her natural sciences graduate studies. But she knew she wanted to work with Professor Stephen Hart for her environmental systems research. “I did a lot of searching (for a mentor) based on my...

UC Merced Students Win Research Awards at SACNAS

October 22, 2012
We are proud to announce that three UC Merced undergraduate students won research awards at the recent conference of the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) in Seattle.   All three students are SNS majors and part of the UC LEADS program....

Impact: Understanding Addiction with Fruit Flies [VIDEO]

October 15, 2012
UC Merced Professor Fred Wolf uses fruit flies to better understand the neurological impacts of alcoholism.

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