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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...

Graduate Student Association Provides Collective Voice for Grad Students

March 31, 2021
Graduate school is tough, but graduate students have a place to turn to for advocacy and support on campus. Since it was established in 2005, UC Merced’s Graduate Student Association (GSA) has promoted graduate students’ rights and worked with the Graduate Division and other campus leadership to...

Ali Heydari wins a Best Poster Award at SIAM CSE21

March 12, 2021
Ali Heydari wins a Best Poster Award at SIAM CSE21. Congratulations! Please check out Ali's award-winning poster. Title: Modeling Multi-Scale Dynamics of Protein Aggregation in Dividing Yeast Cells with 3D Level-Set Method Abstract. Advances in microscopy allow cell biologists to...

UC Merced Applied Math showcases strong presence at SIAM CSE21

February 22, 2021
* Times listed are CST Oral Presentations Tanya Tafolla, Matar: A Performance Portability and Productivity Implementation of Data-Oriented Design using Kokkos MS30 (MON, March 1, 9:45 AM - 11:25 AM) https://meetings.siam.org/sess/dsp_programsess.cfm?SESSIONCODE=70085 Erica...

UC Merced’s Gallo Management Program Pays Off for Graduates

February 9, 2021
Ruben Lemus was celebrating his graduation from UC Merced’s Gallo Management Program with a family dinner at nearby Yosemite Lake when his father reminded Ruben of a visit to the lake years earlier. “My dad said at the time, ‘If you want to do something with your life, get an education. They are...

Fall Commencement: UC Merced a ‘Companion’ for Student Speaker

December 8, 2020
For Xiaolong “Harry” Chen, UC Merced is more than a university. “It is a friend and a companion,” he wrote in his application to be student speaker at Fall Commencement. Together, they experienced pre-dawn hours at Lantern Café, early evening discourses with friends, and 11 p.m. sprints to complete...

Meza Named First AMS Fellow from UC Merced

November 6, 2020
Professor Juan Meza, former dean of the School of Natural Sciences, has become the first Fellow of the American Mathematical Society from UC Merced. He is one of 46 Fellows inducted as part of the Class of 2021. The Fellows of the AMS designation recognizes members who have made outstanding...

Shayna was chosen one of the first Big Cat Heroes

October 7, 2020
Under Chancellor Munoz’ new program, one ‘hero’ each was selected from nominated staff, faculty, graduate and undergraduate students. https://doyourpart.ucmerced.edu/big-cat-heroes

Alumni News: Mario Banuelos featured as a Lathisms honoree

September 27, 2020
Our Alum Mario Banuelos was featured by Lathisms (Latinx and Hispanics in the Mathematical Sciences) as a prominent Latinx/Hispanic mathematician honoree for National Hispanic Heritage Month 2020. https://www.lathisms.org/calendar-2020/mario-banuelos

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