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Raindrops, Red Wine Inspire Solar Tech Advancements

February 6, 2017
In recent publications, Professor Vincent Tung proves that inspiration for advancements in materials science can come from anywhere — even the merging of raindrops on a windshield or the sheeting of red wine down the inside of a glass. Through those liquid movements, Tung discovered...

Winston Feted for Golden Anniversary of Landmark Discovery

October 10, 2016
Fifty years ago this year, while a freshman faculty member in the University of Chicago Physics Department, Roland Winston published a paper introducing a new field he called nonimaging optics. In it, he described the compound parabolic concentrator (CPC), a highly efficient device that...

Computational Training Expanding at UC Merced Through New Grants

September 21, 2016
Graduate students at the University of California, Merced, will benefit from extensive new research, funding and training opportunities, thanks to two National Science Foundation (NSF) grants totaling more than $3.25 million. Interdisciplinary groups of computational sciences researchers...

Society of Physics Students Recognized for Outreach

September 21, 2016
Several members of the UC Merced SPS (Julian Cuevas, Will Delmas, and Bieito de la Fuente) recently participated in STEM outreach events at local elementary schools.  More info on their outstanding efforts can be found in the links below. Video from Fresno Unified Article in the...

Xu wins NIH Biophysics Grant

August 26, 2016
  Professor Jing Xu recently received an award from the NIH National Instititute of General Sciences to study the biophysics of cargo transport inside the cell.  Molecular motor-based transport underlies all eukaryotic cell function and organismal health; defects in transport have...

UC Solar Graduate Student Lighting the Night in a Controlled Way

July 27, 2016
One of the most stunning sights in Yosemite National Park has nothing to do with granite. It’s the night sky, Milky Way and all. But light pollution within the park can diminish that experience for visitors as well as change the circadian rhythms of flora and fauna. UC Merced graduate student...

Brainstorm: Professors Take Holistic Approach to Study Thinking, Learning and Neuroscience

May 27, 2016
The following article is the main story in a six-piece package that appeared in the spring issue of UC Merced Magazine focusing on the research performed at UC Merced that relates to the brain. You can read the other stories, on consciousness, machine learning and artificial intelligence,...

New Supercomputing Cluster to Expand Campus Capabilities

May 2, 2016
A proposal to conduct high-performance computing across science and engineering disciplines has won UC Merced and Professor Christine Isborn a research computing cluster that will be used for a variety of projects across campus. UC Merced professor Christine Isborn. Each year,...

New NSF Center for Biomolecular and Cellular machines

April 28, 2016
An interdisciplinary research team led by Physics Professor Ajay Gopinathan and Bioengineering Professor Victor Munoz have received a $5 million grant from the NSF CREST program to establish a Center for Cellular and Biomolecular Machines (CCBM) . CCBM's goal is to study how biological...

UC Merced Receives $5 Million for Interdisciplinary Research Center

April 26, 2016
Researchers at the University of California, Merced, won a $5 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study how biological matter like proteins or cells come together to perform specific tasks, effectively behaving as machines. The research — funded over five years through the...

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