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Ready, Set, Slam: 10 UC Merced Scholars Battle for Champion Title

March 9, 2026
Ten UC Merced graduate researchers are gearing up to deliver the most intense three minutes of their academic careers. Each spring, master’s and Ph.D. students across the campus’s three schools are invited to participate in Grad Slam — a fast‑paced competition that challenges scholars to distill...

UC Merced Students Invited to Tackle Real-World AI Challenges in 2026 Data Science Program

February 23, 2026
Applications are open for the 2026 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Data Science Challenge, a two-week summer internship that gives students a firsthand look at national lab research through high‑impact, data‑driven problem solving. “I want our students to see themselves in these different...

Graduate Student Hardeep Bassi Defends PhD Dissertation

January 22, 2026
Graduate student Hardeep Bassi has successfully defended their PhD dissertation, titled “Data-Driven Simulation and Inference for Time-Evolving Systems with Applications to Quantum and Electron Dynamics,” on January 22, 2026. The dissertation committee included Prof. Changho Kim (chair...