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Fellowship Expands Quantum, AI Training to Fill Industry Demand

February 26, 2024
UC Merced graduate students Anuvetha Govindarajan and Jocelyn Ornelas-Munoz have each received a $25,000 fellowship from SandboxAQ, which creates solutions at the nexus of artificial intelligence and quantum technology — or AQ — to address some of the world's greatest challenges. For the past six...

Active-matter Researcher will Further Modeling, Education with NSF CAREER Award

February 12, 2024
Department of Physics Professor Kinjal Dasbiswas has received a CAREER award for his work on the theory and modeling of shape-changing active solids. He is the 38th researcher from UC Merced to earn this award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). CAREER awards are among the NSF’s most...

New Partnership Offers Ph.D. Students a Path to Pedagogical Excellence

December 4, 2023
Graduate student Samuel Leventini comes from a long line of educators, and the tribology researcher thinks he might want to follow in those footsteps. Thanks to a new supplemental grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Leventini will get the opportunity to find out if teaching is really...

ARCS Scholars Work to Advance STEM Research

November 13, 2023
Four UC Merced graduate students can focus fully on their research and academic studies this year thanks to a generous gift from the Northern California Chapter of the Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Foundation. ARCS, a national organization established and operated entirely by...

Orionid Meteor Shower Viewing - Oct. 21

October 19, 2023
UC Merced's Astronomy Club invites the campus community to observe the Orionid Meteor Shower starting at 10 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 21. You might catch an Orionid meteor any time between about Sept. 26 to Nov. 22, but its peak will happen between Oct. 21 and 22 when you could...

Astronomy Club Hosts Solar Eclipse Event

October 18, 2023
UC Merced's Astronomy Club hosted an eclipse viewing event the morning of Oct. 14 in the Science and Engineering Building 2 solar breezeway. Club organizers estimate that up to 50 students attended and used telescopes, eclipse glasses and pinhole cameras...

2023 Physics Graduate Student Achievements

September 20, 2023
Congratulations to all the students below! Ph.D. degrees awarded in spring and summer 2023: Michael Leveille, “Stimuli-Responsive Polymers with Unique Shape Changing Molecular Design,” advisors Sayantani Ghosh and Jennifer Lu Bishal Parajuli, “Inhomogeneous...

Appreciation for Physics Postdocs

September 20, 2023
During National Postdoc Appreciation Week we'd like to recognize the important contributions of our physics postdoctoral scholars. Here are some recent highlights from each of them: Dr. Bhavya Mishra (advisor: Gopinathan) Published a paper on HIV viral assembly in Biophysical...

Most of the Universe Composed of Dark Energy, Researchers Show

September 12, 2023
A UC Merced researcher and her teammates around the world have succeeded in measuring the total amount of matter in the universe for the second time. A new paper in the Astrophysical Journal, titled “Constraining Cosmological Parameters using the Cluster Mass-Richness Relation,”...

Mega-Interstellar Structure Fuels Undergraduate’s Winning Research

August 28, 2023
Big-wave surfing is a thing these days, but hardly anyone is riding a wave as big as the one Biviana Oseguera is on. The physics major is studying the 9,000-light-year long Radcliffe Wave, a structure made of clouds of dust and young stars that form a wave-like structure through the Milky Way. So...

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