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New Program to Prepare Students for Academic, Career Success in STEM Fields

March 9, 2022

The new UC Merced Bobcat STEM Scholars Program, funded by a $1.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), will provide four years of scholarship support for up to 10 eligible incoming students per year who declare majors within the university’s School of Natural Sciences (SNS). “...

Grad Students Invited to UC Merced’s First ‘Nanoengineering Environmental Sensors’ Incubator Program

March 1, 2022

Graduate students who are passionate about their research, concerned about the environment and eager to reach across disciplinary boundaries are invited to apply for a three-week summer program in which they will team up with like-minded scientists and engineers to design solutions to environmental...

Postdoc Awarded Fellowship to Support Computation and Immunology Cross-training

February 15, 2022

Postdoctoral scholar Lihong Zhao was one of 10 researchers named a 2022 Intersect Fellow by the American Association of Immunologists (AAI) — a first for UC Merced. The AAI Intersect Fellowship Program for Computational Scientists and Immunologists is intended to improve communication and...

Our alumnus Dr. Mario Bañuelos wins the SIAM Science Policy Fellowship

February 11, 2022

Please check the SIAM News Blog: https://sinews.siam.org/Details-Page/new-siam-science-policy-fellowships-announced-6?s=09

Ph.D. Student Goes from Former Inmate to Teaching Prisoners

December 16, 2021

In his early 20s, Cory Mccullough battled addiction and stole to support his habits. The Dos Palos native spent several stints in prison as early as 2011 for commercial burglary. Education was the last thing on his mind. Now, the former inmate finds himself in the joint again, this time not behind...

Welcome New Cohort 2021!

August 29, 2021

Welcome New Cohort 2021! (top row) Hardeep Bassi, Irabiel Romero, Matthew Blomquist (bottom row) Morgan Lavenstein Bendall, Mohammed Aburidi, Yu Lu, Zihan Xu

New Collaboration Aims to Help Students Understand the Hows and Whys of Calculus

August 24, 2021

More than a few students have probably asked themselves why they have to take calculus — the course is notoriously difficult for some. “People haven’t been taught math the way it should be,” Department of Applied Mathematics Professor Mayya Tokman said. “Math is practical. It’s there to solve...

UC Merced Faculty Land Three UC-HBCU Grants, Most in System

August 10, 2021

The University of California Office of the President awarded three out of only seven UC-Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Initiative grants to UC Merced faculty members. The initiative has fostered faculty partnerships with HBCUs to support enhanced diversity and representation of...

Matea Santiago wins the AWM-SIAM Poster Prize at SIAM AN21

July 27, 2021

Matea Santiago won the AWM-SIAM Poster Prize at SIAM AN21. Congratulations! Please check out her award-winning poster here. Title: Pulsing and Photosynthesis: Numerical Simulations of Soft Corals Abstract: Corals in the family Xeniidae actively pulse their tentacles. It is hypothesized...

Matea Santiago has successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis

July 26, 2021

Our Ph.D. student, Matea Santiago (adviser: Prof. Shilpa Khatri), has successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled "Numerical Methods for Modeling the Fluid Flow of Pulsing Soft Corals and the Photosynthesis of their Symbiotic Algae". Congratulations, Dr. Santiago!

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