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Stargazing and Lecture Offer Unique Perspectives on Stars and Exoplanets

February 27, 2025
The night sky is filled with countless mysteries and worlds yet to be explored but that someday might be visited by spacecraft. In a free event titled “Celestial Tales: Stars, Exoplanets and the Myths That Connect Us,” on March 6, the campus community and the public will hear from Professor Yosuke...

Founding Faculty Roland Winston Remembered for Pioneering Solar Energy

February 18, 2025
Distinguished Professor Emeritus Roland Winston, a pioneer in solar energy, engineering and physics, died Feb. 8 at the age of 88 at his home in Merced. A founding faculty member in the schools of Natural Sciences and Engineering at UC Merced, Winston also founded and directed the intercampus...

UC Awards Support Tackling Big Questions in Health, Physics, Agriculture and Climate

February 5, 2025
Faculty members at UC Merced are taking the lead on four Multicampus Research Program Initiatives (MRPI), working with colleagues around the University of California system to address challenges around labor and agriculture, active matter, Indigenous health and fusion energy. “The MRPI program...

From Roots and Resilience: Md Mehdi Masud

January 13, 2025
Born in Bangladesh, Md Mehdi Masud's story is one of determination and intellectual curiosity. Despite the limited research resources in his home country, he transformed these challenges into steppingstones for success. "My upbringing instilled a deep sense of perseverance and...

Professor Brings Course-Based Research Experiences to Physics

October 25, 2024
Conducting research can be daunting. UC Merced, like its sister University of California campuses, prides itself on the opportunities it provides its students to conduct research as part of their educational experiences. But the idea of looking into a concept and producing new results can seem...

NSF Grant Opens Opportunities for Students in Materials Research

October 21, 2024
A group of faculty members at UC Merced has been awarded a $1 million seed grant from the National Science Foundation to form a research collaborative to expand participation and access to materials, research-focused facilities, education, training and careers. The Venture for Innovation in Self-...

Nierenberg and Sharping Recognized for Service

October 16, 2024
The annual School of Natural Sciences Faculty Awards recognize areas of faculty service that are central to the success of the school, including the efforts that have built the SNS’s research infrastructure, improved the pedagogies used in our classes, created compelling new academic programs...

2023-2024 Physics Graduate Student News and Achievements

September 24, 2024
Welcome to our first-year students! Hamad Afzal – UC Merced. Rotation advisor: Sharping Jonah Beurkens – Kalamazoo College, Michigan. Rotation advisor: Sharping Julian Davis – California State University, East Bay. Rotation advisor: Liu...

Physics Grad Student Receives Competitive UC Fellowship

September 5, 2024
Ph.D. student Micah Oeur has been awarded a 2024-2025 UC President’s Pre-Professoriate Fellowship to support her physics research and boost her goal to be a professor. PPPF’s goal is to enhance faculty pathways for historically underrepresented groups, particularly Chicanx/Latinx, African Americans...

Grad Student Receives Prestigious Defense Fellowship

August 19, 2024
Thomas “Teddy” Adams has been awarded the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) fellowship sponsored by the Office of Naval Research. The three-year fellowship covers tuition and university fees and provides a monthly stipend of $3,600, along with access to additional funding...

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