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Two New Faculty Members Expand Physics Department and Bring the Cosmos to Campus

March 29, 2021
UC Merced occupies just one small corner of the world. But through the research, teaching, experience, and connections of two new Department of Physics faculty members, students can access and begin to understand the universe. Astrophysics professors Sarah Loebman and Anna Nierenberg joined last...

With Kleckner’s Award, Physics Department Nabs its Third CAREER Grant This Year

March 16, 2021
Physics Professor Dustin Kleckner has received a prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER award for his research — the third in his department this year. He studies how optical and acoustic binding controls interactions between/among particles and how it manipulates them into self-...

Active Matter Organization Earns Beller a CAREER Award

March 9, 2021
Physics Professor Daniel Beller has received a CAREER award for his research into how complex organization arises from simple physical interactions for biological cells or polymers assembled in large numbers. He is the 26th researcher from UC Merced and the sixth from the Department of Physics...

Physics faculty win UCOP grant for Coronavirus research

January 14, 2021
Two new projects designed and led by UC Merced researchers will address challenges facing many Californians — wildfire recovery and agricultural labor — but will also have global reach. Both are funded through the University of California’s prestigious Multicampus Research...

Physicist Liu Receives NSF CAREER Award to Create ‘Bacteria Treadmill’

December 10, 2020
Physics Professor Bin Liu has received a CAREER award for his research into a new micromanipulation technique to virtually hold freely moving microorganisms, essentially creating a “bacterial treadmill” to enable biological and medical studies of microorganisms in their natural state...

Physics Major is Fall Commencement Student Speaker

December 8, 2020
For Xiaolong “Harry” Chen, UC Merced is more than a university. “It is a friend and a companion,” he wrote in his application to be student speaker at Fall Commencement. Together, they experienced pre-dawn hours at Lantern Café, early evening discourses with friends,...

Lab finds chitin in surprising places

November 8, 2020
Molecular biology Professor Chris Amemiya and his former graduate student Molly Phillips have collaborated with Physics Professor Linda Hirst to make a discovery that upends traditional ideas about a structural polysaccharide called chitin that is found in some fish. Over the course of their...

Strubbe lab represent UC Merced with distinction at national conference

November 8, 2020
Physics Professor David Strubbe's lab participated in and distinguished themselves recently at the SACNAS (The National Diversity in STEM Virtual Conference)  held on October 19th-24th.  This is the largest multidisciplinary and multicultural STEM diversity event in the country,...

UC Merced Physics is now part of APS Bridge Program

October 17, 2020
This Bridge Program from the American Physical Society aims to develop institutional capacity to train more physics PhDs from underrepresented minority backgrounds, a goal which UC Merced Physics is uniquely poised and committed to serve.  

Gopinathan Named Fellow of Leading Physics Organization

September 28, 2020
Physics Professor Ajay Gopinathan has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). This prestigious recognition is for physicists who have made exceptional contributions in physics research, important applications of physics, leadership in or service to physics or significant...

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