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February 26, 2024
UC Merced graduate students Anuvetha Govindarajan and Jocelyn Ornelas-Munoz have each received a $25,000 fellowship from SandboxAQ, which creates solutions at the nexus of artificial intelligence and quantum technology — or AQ — to address some of the world's greatest challenges. For the past six...
February 20, 2024
Stanislaus County colleges behind in faculty diversity. What’s being done?
January 30, 2024
The Applied Mathematics graduate program invited Dr. John Loffeld(Lawrence Livermore National Lab) as our 2nd Distinguished Applied Mathematics Graduate Alumni Awardee. Congratulations!
November 20, 2023
UC Merced is part of several new initiatives aimed at increasing the accessibility and inclusivity of data science studies and opening new opportunities for historically underserved students after graduation. New grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Department of Energy (DOE) and...
November 13, 2023
Four UC Merced graduate students can focus fully on their research and academic studies this year thanks to a generous gift from the Northern California Chapter of the Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Foundation. ARCS, a national organization established and operated entirely by...
October 23, 2023
Building Collaborations in Teaching  This award recognizes a faculty member who reaches across disciplinary boundaries to build collaborations that support innovative research and educational opportunities. This year’s award...
October 13, 2023
Our Ph.D. student, Ali Heydari (adviser: Prof. Suzanne Sindi), has successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "Deep Learning and Numerical Methods for Modeling Complex Biological Systems". Congratulations, Dr. Heydari! Dr. Heydari will go on to a Reasearch Scientist...
September 7, 2023
Five faculty members from the School of Natural Sciences received grants recently from the Department of Energy (DOE) under its Funding for Accelerated, Inclusive Research (FAIR) initiative. To support research at minority-serving institutions and emerging research institutions, the DOE announced...
July 25, 2023
Our Ph.D. student, Eunji Yoo (adviser: Prof. François Blanchette and Prof. Shilpa Khatri), has successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled "Flows of settling marine aggregates and complex fluid rheology". Congratulations, Dr. Yoo! Dr. You will go on to a postdoctoral position at...

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