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Young girls take part in special Science Camp at Mercy Medical Center

February 13, 2013
UC Merced lecturer Petia Gueorguieva asked a group of young girls why chemistry is important. "What do you think you can do with a degree in chemistry?" she asked the fourth- and fifth-graders. "Make medicines," one girl responded. The 13 girls and their...

Professor’s Design Could Win $50,000 Grant

February 6, 2013
A UC Merced professor is one of five finalists in an international challenge that could win him a $50,000 research grant and free access to a record-setting, ocean-going robot. Professor Michael Beman, with the School of Natural Sciences, entered the PacX Challenge, a competition designed to...

PHYS 137 Students Explain Quantum Mechanics [VIDEO]

January 30, 2013
Dr. Carrie Menke gave her students in PHYS 137 (Introduction to Quantum Mechanics) the assignment of creating a video that explained some aspect of quantum mechanics to novices in a compelling way.  Check out this video that explains Schrodinger's Cat thought experiment and this video...

CHEM 112 Students Create Videos on Quantum Chemistry & Spectroscopy [VIDEO]

January 30, 2013
Professor Christine Isborn asked her students in CHEM 112 (Quantum Chemistry and Spectroscopy) to create videos.  Check out their work here!

UC Merced Professor’s Lighting Device Earning Campus Its Fourth U.S. Patent

January 28, 2013
Professor Roland Winston knows a jellyfish that can help people see more clearly. But it’s not the kind found in the ocean. It’s one that’s about to earn Winston and UC Merced a U.S. patent, and is the solution to a problem that vexed many famous scientists. “Perfect...

Researchers Publish in Leading Science, Technology Journal

January 8, 2013
The small-scale, cutting-edge work of graduate student Eric Josephs and chemistry Professor Tao Ye is providing an up-close look at the behavior of biomolecules. The two UC Merced researchers hope to help engineer new and better biosensors for medical uses. Now, a paper documenting some of...

Professor Looks Inside Trees for Answers

December 12, 2012
Professor Carolin Frank is concerned with the inner lives of trees. She looks inside them to see whether microbes are part of – and perhaps even critical to – life functions such as growth. “It’s a pretty new field,” Frank said. “Most people think of...

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’...

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