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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...

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...

Physicist Found His Path to the Future at UC Merced

November 4, 2019
When Denzal Martin started his undergraduate work at UC Merced, he wasn’t thinking about a career in physics, interning with NASA or attending graduate school. The Los Angeles native was studying computer science and engineering. One day, though, he decided to attend a materials science...

Lab Works to Understand Molecular Motors and Cholesterol’s Relation to Alzheimer’s

November 4, 2019
Physics Faculty Member Dr. Jing Xu wins competitive grant form NIH. Professor Jing Xu has won a competitive grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences at the NIH to determine how the properties of the lipid membrane enclosing a cargo impact motor protein-based...

Physicists Revealing Mysteries of Biological Fluids

September 26, 2019
A group of physics researchers from UC Merced have revealed that a fluid made from biological molecules found in human cells behaves much like ordinary fluids that are mixed externally, such as paint. Except in the case of the biological fluids, no external mixing is required — it’s...

UC Merced Reaches for Stars with Solar Cells

September 18, 2019
Two UC Merced physics groups are totally spacing out this year. Professors Sayantani Ghosh and David Strubbe and their students in the Department of Physics are working on a NASA initiative to fabricate solar cells in space and turn sunlight into electricity. “One of the big challenges...

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