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With Kleckner’s Award, Physics Department Nabs its Third CAREER Grant This Year

March 16, 2021

Physics Professor Dustin Kleckner has received a prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER award for his research — the third in his department this year. He studies how optical and acoustic binding controls interactions between/among particles and how it manipulates them into self-...

Graduate Student’s Immune-system Research Attracts NIH Award

March 12, 2021

Graduate student Betsabel Chicana ’s research into understanding how the immune system works when there’s a problem inside the bones has earned her a prestigious fellowship from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Chicana, a fifth-year Quantitative and Systems Biology Ph.D. candidate who...

Undergraduate Experience: Erika Estrada Rodriquez

March 11, 2021

Name: Erika Estrada Rodriguez Year: Third Year Major: Sociology Hometown: Panorama City What is a memorable project that you worked on during your time at UC Merced? During my time at UC Merced, I have been able to be part of the Undergraduate Research in the Humanities (UROC-H) program cohort of...

Mechanical Engineering Student Named the Campus’s First Rhodes Scholar

March 10, 2021

UC Merced master’s student Selina Brinkmann has been awarded a Rhodes Scholarship for study at Oxford University — a first for the campus. “A Rhodes Scholarship being awarded to one of our UC Merced engineering students is an amazing first,” School of Engineering Dean Mark Matsumoto said. “This...

Active Matter Organization Earns Beller a CAREER Award

March 9, 2021

Physics Professor Daniel Beller has received a CAREER award for his research into how complex organization arises from simple physical interactions for biological cells or polymers assembled in large numbers. He is the 26th researcher from UC Merced and the sixth from the Department of Physics —...

Mercury Control and Mitigation Research Earns Professor and Student Honors

March 8, 2021

Professor Marc Beutel and his graduate student Mark Seelos have been recognized for papers and a presentation on toxic mercury mitigation by the North American Lake Management Society. Beutel, an environmental engineer, co-wrote two of a group of three papers named Best Paper of the Year at the...

Female Faculty to Know on International Women’s Day

March 8, 2021

International Women’s Day is more than a day to celebrate the fantastic females around us. It is a day to reflect on the contributions women have made both socially and politically around the world. Women across the globe have used their gifts and talents to help others in myriad ways, and UC...

Undergrad Experience: Magali Torres Cervantes

March 3, 2021

Name: Magali Torres Cervantes Year: Third year Major: Management and Business Economics Hometown: Merced What is a memorable project that you worked on during your time at UC Merced? A memorable project I worked on during my time at UC Merced is being part of the 2020 Creating a Path to Success (...

Q&A: Latinx Community Impacted by Food Insecurity During COVID-19

March 3, 2021

COVID-19 has left the food insecure population especially vulnerable. The pandemic has upset food supply chains and in turn, access to healthy and nutritious food has become even more difficult. A cadre of public health professors are lending insight into how the food shortage has specifically...

Undergrad Experience: Amelia Wood

March 2, 2021

Name: Amelia Wood Year: Third year Major: Biological Sciences (Human Biology emphasis); Natural Sciences Education minor Hometown: Stockton What is a memorable project that you worked on during your time at UC Merced? A memorable project I remember working on at UC Merced was through my job as a...