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Graduate Students Win Solar Fellowships

November 16, 2015
  Two Physics graduate students, Melissa Ricketts and Benaz Colabewala have been named Dan David Solar Fellows through the University of California Advanced Solar Technologies Institute (UC Solar), headquartered at UC Merced.    The fellowship began in 2007...

Event Connects High School Girls with Female Scientists

October 6, 2015
While many young women her age are thinking about their favorite shoes or who they’ll go with to the winter formal, Callie Nance, 15, is thinking about her favorite science organizations and her future as a physicist. That’s why the Dinner with a Scientist event at UC Merced...

Nanomaterials exploring new frontiers

September 28, 2015
Professors Linda Hirst and Sayantani Ghosh are combining liquid crystals with nanoparticles such as gold and quantum dots to come up with a new platform that could have applications in fields such as optics and medicine. And the two new grants the School of...

Sharping, Chiao and Tian win DARPA grant

August 31, 2015
    Professors Jay Sharping, Raymond Chiao and Lin Tian have recently received an award from DARPA’s Defense Sciences Office to study a quantum-mechanical effect called “squeezing”. Squeezing of Heisenberg’s uncertainty relationship occurs when...

Physics of Behavior

August 10, 2015
Professor Ajay Gopinathan talks about the physics of collective behavior including flocks and swarms at the Aspen Center for Physics public outreach events including a Kids Science Barbecue and an interview  for the Aspen Science Highlights program on Aspen Grassroots TV. Professor...

New NASA-Affiliated Materials Center

July 30, 2015
    New NASA-Affiliated Center Opening at UC Merced A $5 million grant will lead to innovative nanotechnology solutions for space exploration missions and increase the number of science, technology, engineering and math graduates   Quick Facts ...

Nano-Bio program provides unique research experience

December 17, 2014
For the University of California, Merced, students in this year’s nanoBIO internships and research program, working with something extremely small could have huge implications. “I had no idea nanotechnology could have so many applications in biology,” said John Harvey...

Campus highlights Physics group

December 3, 2014
From the news story on the UC Merced Main page From understanding how groups of atoms behave at ultra-low temperatures to modeling how flocks of birds organize, UC Merced's Physics group is helping solve many of the world's mysteries and using the knowledge to improve technology, ranging...

UC Solar 2014 symposium

December 3, 2014
 UC Solar symposium is designed to promote public knowledge regarding present and future UC Solar research initiatives, and to examine the current state of the solar energy industry in California and beyond. The 2014 symposium featured individuals, corporations, researchers and public...

Award Winning Physics Students

December 1, 2014
November: Graduate student Al Castelli's talk at the recent FWS meeting in Reno was selected as a 3rd place winner for the Margaret Burbidge Award for graduate experimental research. October: Physics students were awarded several prestigious prizes at this year's Natural...

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