Skip to content

News

Top 10 Finalists Advance in UC Merced’s Grad Slam

April 6, 2020
Although COVID-19 has changed everyone’s plans this spring, Graduate Division staff members rallied to make sure the campus’s annual Grad Slam competition — showcasing graduate student research — continued as planned. This year’s qualifying round was different than previous years. Each of the...

Professor Ajay Gopinathan interviewed about the challenges and joys of establishing a new university

April 3, 2020

Two Grad Students to Attend Nobel Laureate Meetings

March 19, 2020
UC Merced graduate students, Md. Mehdi Masud and Akshay Paropkari, will travel this summer to attend the prestigious 70th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings, an invitation-only gathering in Lindau, Germany. They will join about 600 young scientists from 101 countries and attend lectures and small...

Research Reveals Collective Dynamics of Active Matter Systems

March 10, 2020
Flocks of starlings producing dazzling patterns across the sky are natural examples of active matter — groups of individual agents coming together to create collective dynamics. In a study featured on last week’s cover of the journal Science, a team of researchers including a UC...

Strubbe Recognized for Research, Teaching and Service to Department

March 9, 2020
Strubbe Recognized for Research, Teaching and Service to Department Physics Professor David Strubbe has been named a Cottrell Scholar, winning one of only 25 of the prestigious $100,000 grants for his proposal to study the ultrafast properties of materials when they are exposed to light...

Gravitational Waves researcher is speaker at UC Merced event

March 6, 2020

‘Yes, You Can’: UC Merced Students Learning, Growing at Livermore Lab

February 24, 2020
Just 90 miles from the future of higher education — UC Merced — lies one of the epicenters of the future of technology, innovation and national security. Regardless of the route you take, the journey from UC Merced to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) will include twists and turns, ups...

National Academy of Engineering Elects Kurtz Into Its Ranks

February 13, 2020

Physics Dept. awarded a Women in Physics Group Grant

January 3, 2020
The UC Merced Physics Department has been awarded a Women in Physics Group Grant by the American Physical Society's Committee on the Status of Women in Physics. With support from the NSF, the APS offers a Communication and Negotiation Skills Seminars for Women led by trained women physicists...

Star Student and NASA Standout Preparing for a Stellar Future

November 12, 2019
Like many young women, Calista Lum absorbed the message that she was not as capable as her male peers when it came to science, technology, engineering and math. Teachers in her Fairfield high school engineering classes often asked if male classmates had done her work for her. “I just assumed the...

Pages