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OMRON Endowed Scholarship to Help Engineering Students in the Robotics Field
11/04/2021
Many UC Merced students are first-generation college students, meaning they are the first in their families to pursue college degrees and the types of careers having a degree affords. UC Merced’s strong relationships with industry partners plays a key role in helping students navigate these career...
New Strategies Could Help California Meet Methane Goals
11/03/2021
NSF Grant to Help Grad Students Find Solutions to Environmental Challenges
11/01/2021
Graduate students and a convergence of physics, engineering and environmental science could result in not only the next generation of solutions to pressing environmental challenges, but a new group of diverse and globally competitive nano-engineers, as well. A nearly $2 million grant from the...
Getting a Solid Soil Response to Biosolids Application
11/01/2021
NSF Awards CCBM Center $5 Million to Continue STEM Research
10/27/2021
UC Merced’s NSF-CREST Center for Cellular and Biomolecular Machines (CCBM) has been awarded an additional $5 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to continue its mission. In total, the NSF has invested $10 million in the center, an indicator of the importance of the Center’s work and...
Professor’s Side-Blotched Lizards Become Latest Campus Inhabitants
10/26/2021
Every faculty member has to set up their lab when they join a new campus. But Professor Danielle Edwards literally built a key component of hers from the ground up. The outdoor component of El Huevo — the Edwards Lab of Herpetology Uta Evolution Vivarium and Ovipositorium — is set on 1.2 acres...
Governor Announces State Funding for UC Merced’s Medical Education Building
10/25/2021
Gov. Gavin Newsom, speaking at UC Merced on Monday, announced that the state will support the building of the university’s new medical education building. The Health, Behavioral Sciences and Medical Education Building will support a B.S.-to-M.D. joint degree program with UCSF-Fresno, starting in...
Hirst Selected for Prestigious Fellowship in the American Physical Society
10/25/2021
Physics Professor Linda Hirst has been elected a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) by the APS Council of Representatives at its most recent meeting. This is the second consecutive year the Department of Physics has had a faculty member elevated to an APS fellowship. The number of APS...
Research from UC Merced Focuses on Latina Teen Mothers
10/20/2021
HIV Preventative Developed in LiWang Lab Takes One Big Step Forward
10/20/2021
An HIV-inhibiting silk film designed to advance prevention and help end the AIDS epidemic in countries in Africa, developed by UC Merced Professor Patti LiWang, has met recent success at the California National Primate Research Center at UC Davis. “They show complete protection,” LiWang said. “The...

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