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Physics Professor’s Work in Liquid Crystals Earns Prestigious Medal

May 13, 2019

Physics Professor Linda Hirst has been named this year’s recipient of the British Liquid Crystal Society’s C. Hilsum Medal for her contributions to liquid crystal science and technology. She journeyed to Leeds, England, to receive the prestigious medal, attend an awards dinner and deliver the...

Grad’s Passion for Research Leading Her to Dartmouth College

May 9, 2019

Asmaa Mohamed’s enthusiasm for research is contagious. Her passion not only radiates through her words, but it is also evident in the research career she has built in her undergraduate years at UC Merced. Mohamed was born in Egypt. In 2013, her father accepted a position as a senior medical...

Ennis Receives Prestigious NIH Fellowship for Research of Biofilms

May 9, 2019

The National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) awarded Quantitative and Systems Biology graduate student Craig Ennis the Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Individual National Service Research Award. The award provides multiyear support to...

National Labs Visit Campus

May 8, 2019

Representatives from six national labs, Lawrence Livermore National Labs, Sandia National Labs, Lawrence Berkeley National Labs, the Joint Genome Institute, Los Alamos National Labs, and Idaho National Labs, visited campus April 26 for a one-day conference to showcase research and...

UC Merced MESA Lab Wins Big Ideas Contest

May 7, 2019

Now ubiquitous, machine learning has made its way into farming, thanks to an affordable, unmanned ground vehicle that recognizes and spatially maps agricultural pest infestations, treating them with “surgical precision spraying.” New, award-winning robot-driven technology developed by a team of UC...

Anh Diep Wins Grad Slam at UC Merced, Heads to UC Finals

May 6, 2019

Quantitative and Systems Biology (QSB) graduate student Anh Diep will represent UC Merced at the University of California Grad Slam finals in San Francisco on May 10. At UC Merced’s Grad Slam final round in April, Diep presented her dissertation research “To Clear or Not Clear: A Valley Fever...

Scheduling Algorithms Earn Computer Science Researcher an NSF CAREER Award

May 6, 2019

Professor Sungjin Im, with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering in the School of Engineering, has received a National Science Foundation CAREER award, making him the 21st recipient from UC Merced. CAREER awards are among the NSF’s most prestigious awards. They are given through the...

Bioengineering Professor’s NSF Award Supports Synthetic Cell Research

May 3, 2019

Professor Anand Bala Subramaniam with the School of Engineering has been named UC Merced’s 23rd CAREER award recipient, and the first in the Department of Bioengineering . This is Subramaniam’s third grant as principal investigator from the National Science Foundation. He is also a founding co-...

Sociology Honors Society Hosts First Annual Research Symposium

May 3, 2019

Finals are a busy time for students, but that didn’t stop UC Merced’s sociology undergraduates from kicking off their first annual Alpha Kappa Delta Research Symposium on April 19. Alpha Kappa Delta is a nearly 100-year-old honor society for students with a focus in sociology. Graduating senior...

One Key to Climate Change Could Be Stuck in a Shark’s Tooth

May 2, 2019

Most people wouldn’t think sharks can teach researchers about the planet’s distant past and its more immediate future. UC Merced paleoecologist Professor Sora Kim isn’t most people. There’s a connection between data in fossilized shark teeth and climate change, and thanks to a grant from the...