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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!

Postdoc Earns Prestigious NIH Fellowship to Expand Prion Disease Research

July 20, 2021
Postdoctoral Scholar Mikahl Banwarth-Kuhn was awarded a $205,140 National Institutes of Health Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Individual National Research Service Award (NIH-F32) to be distributed over three years. The purpose of the fellowship is to enhance the research training of postdoctoral...

Fabian Santiago has successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis

July 12, 2021
Our Ph.D. student, Fabian Santiago (adviser: Prof. Suzanne Sindi), has successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "Mathematical Investigations of Heritable Microbial Phenotypes". Congratulations, Dr. Santiago!

Alex Quijano has successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis

May 10, 2021
Our Ph.D. student, Alex Quijano (adviser: Prof. Suzanne Sindi), has successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "Mathematical Models of Natural Language Evolution". Congratulations, Dr. Quijano!

UC Merced Ph.D. Student Wins UC Grad Slam Competition

May 7, 2021
Applied Mathematics graduate student Shayna Bennett won first place at the University of California’s Grad Slam finals today (May 7). Bennett presented her dissertation research, “A New Tool to Fight Invasive Species,” in just three minutes and won $7,000 and the systemwide trophy — known as the...

$2.2M NIH Grant Designed to Produce Highly Trained, Diverse Ph.D. Workforce

April 28, 2021
A five-year, $2.2 million training grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will assist UC Merced with the development of diverse cohorts of doctoral students in interdisciplinary biomedical disciplines. Twelve trainees each academic year will benefit from NIH’s longstanding Graduate...

Professor Berhe Nominated to Lead Federal Office of Science

April 22, 2021
President Joe Biden has nominated UC Merced Professor Asmeret Asefaw Berhe to be the new director of the Office of Science in the federal Department of Energy. In honor of Earth Day, the White House today announced nominations for a variety of federal posts in the departments of Energy,...

Shayna Bennett Wins Grad Slam at UC Merced

April 21, 2021
Applied Mathematics graduate student Shayna Bennett will represent UC Merced at the University of California Grad Slam finals on May 7. For the campus’s Grad Slam final round, Bennett presented her dissertation research, “A New Tool to Fight Invasive Species,” in just three minutes and earned first...

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