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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...

Astrophysics Researchers Present their Work at Hawaiian Observatory

August 24, 2023
A delegation of dignitaries from the University of California Office of the President, UC Merced and UCLA were recently treated to a presentation that included the astrophysicists from UC Merced at the William M. Keck Observatory headquarters in Waimea, Hawaii. Professors Anna Nierenberg and...

Students Learn from Experts in Electronic Structure at Physics Conference Hosted on Campus

July 18, 2023
Faculty members from the departments of Physics and Chemistry and Biochemistry recently co-hosted a conference that drew about 100 faculty members, researchers and students from around the country and around the world. Physics Professor David Strubbe and chemistry Professor Aurora Pribram-...

UC Merced’s Graduate Programs Rank Among Best in the Nation

April 25, 2023
UC Merced continues to be recognized nationally, with some programs leaping forward, according to U.S. News & World Report’s 2023-2024 edition of Best Graduate Schools released on April 25. Designed for prospective students looking to further their education beyond college, the Best Graduate...

Graduate Students Help Further the Understanding of Diseases such as Alzheimer's

April 12, 2023
Student researchers in experimental physics Professor Jing Xu’s lab have played a critical role in a study that will help understand Alzheimer’s and other diseases that progressively destroy brain tissue. Three students, including a graduate student who has since completed his Ph.D....

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