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SIAM Student Chapter Conference Unites Valley Regional Applied Mathematics Community

May 23, 2019
Oscillatory traffic patterns, the dynamics of micro swimmers and the use of deep neural networks in image reconstruction were just a few of the topics at the fourth annual Central Valley Regional Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Student Chapter Conference held at UC Merced this...

Largest Graduating Class in Campus History Celebrated At Commencement

May 22, 2019
Clouds loomed over the Carol Tomlinson-Keasey Quad last weekend, but nothing was going to rain on the parade of the more than 1,300 Bobcats who walked the stage at UC Merced’s commencement. Baccalaureate, master’s and doctoral graduates from the schools of Natural Sciences, Engineering, and Social...

Class of 2019 Student Speakers Leave UC Merced with Messages of Gratitude

May 15, 2019
Undergraduates Victoria Arias and Cydney Caradonna entered UC Merced through different doors. Arias was a freshman impressed with the campus and community. Caradonna was a transfer student and athlete sold on UC Merced’s championship women’s basketball team. Now they’ve arrived at the same place —...

Jessica Taylor has successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis

April 18, 2019
Our Ph.D. student, Jessica Taylor (adviser: Prof. Boaz Ilan), has successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled "Schrodinger Equations: Computation & Theory". Congratulations, Dr. Taylor!

Grad Students Vie for Spot in UC Grad Slam Finals

April 16, 2019
2019 Grad Slam semi-finalists UC Merced’s Graduate Division will host its Grad Slam competition on April 18 with graduate scholars presenting on topics ranging from Valley Fever immune response and antibiotic resistance to computer vision and mathematical methods for thermal...

Professor Meza Among SIAM Distinguished Class of 2019 Fellows

April 3, 2019
The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) has named Professor Juan Meza, former dean of the School of Natural Sciences at UC Merced, one of its distinguished fellows for 2019. SIAM said each of the 28 recipients was recognized for his or her exemplary research and outstanding...

New Project Aims to Predict People Likely to use Firearms in Suicides

March 11, 2019
The majority of people who die by suicide do so with firearms, and there were more firearm suicides in America in 2017 than there were homicides committed by any method. Combined. Those shocking numbers from the FBI and American Foundation for Suicide Prevention are the impetus for two UC Merced...

Tucker Hartland featured in an ANL article for his summer research

October 29, 2018
Tucker Hartland, an applied mathematics graduate student at the University of California, Merced, spent the summer working on PETSc, the Portable, Extensible Toolkit for Scientific computing. PETSc is a suite of libraries developed at Argonne for solving scientific applications modeled by partial...

NSF Grant Unites Four Hispanic-Serving Institutions to Help Diversify STEM Faculty

October 24, 2018
UC Merced is partnering with UC Santa Barbara and two California State University campuses — Fresno and Channel Islands — on a project to create a more diverse STEM faculty at colleges and universities nationwide. The quartet has been awarded a total of $2 million from the National Science...

Children’s Museum Pop-Up Arrives Friday

May 23, 2018
A team of educators, policy makers and community members are working to bring a children’s museum to Merced. To celebrate the museum’s first pop-up exhibit, Merced For Kids, museum organizers are inviting members of the community to attend the exhibit’s family-friendly opening-night reception at 5:...

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