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CalTeach Program Helps Fill Teacher Shortage Gap

March 24, 2020
When you add UC Merced students majoring in math and science with a mentor teacher it equals real-life experience teaching in local schools. That’s one of the many goals of UC Merced’s CalTeach program, which aims to address the shortage of math and science teachers throughout the Central Valley...

Six Graduate Programs Recognized by U.S. News Rankings

March 17, 2020
U.S. News & World Report has ranked six of UC Merced’s engineering graduate programs in its 2021 Best Graduate Schools rankings released today, a sign that the university’s reputation is continuing to build. “We’re particularly proud of this accomplishment given our campus is only 15 years old...

‘Yes, You Can’: UC Merced Students Learning, Growing at Livermore Lab

February 24, 2020
Just 90 miles from the future of higher education — UC Merced — lies one of the epicenters of the future of technology, innovation and national security. Regardless of the route you take, the journey from UC Merced to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) will include twists and turns, ups...

Congratulations to Cosmin and Omar: 1st place in DOE ARPA-E’s Grid Optimization (GO) Competition

February 12, 2020
Cosmin’s “gollnlp” team came in first place in the Dept. of Energy’s ARPA-E’s Grid Optimization (GO) Competition. This team includes Omar DeGuchy, who spent last summer at LLNL working with Cosmin. Here are the results: https://gocompetition.energy.gov Here is a...

UC Merced Welcomes Visit by Junior Leadership Merced Students

November 27, 2019
Fifteen students from Merced County high schools experienced a bit of college life this week as part of the Junior Leadership Merced program. The students visited UC Merced on Monday, Nov. 25, spending time with staff members from The Margo F. Souza Student Leadership Center, which hosted the...

Researchers Aim to Solve the Unsolvable to Predict the Unseeable

November 18, 2019
A pair of UC Merced researchers are combining computational chemistry and machine learning principles to solve what seems to be an intractable problem at the heart of quantum mechanics: predicting the movement of electrons, also known as electron dynamics. Over the next three years with a $1.2...

Eric Roberts has successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis

October 4, 2019
Our Ph.D. student, Eric Roberts (adviser: Prof. Suzanne Sindi and Prof. Kevin Mitchell (Physics)), has successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "A Computational Geometry Approach for an Ensemble-based Topological Entropy Calculation in Two and Three Dimensions". Congratulations...

Applied Math — an ‘Oddity’ in its Field — Continues to Evolve at UC Merced

September 23, 2019
Math at UC Merced isn’t exactly like math at most other universities. Sure, there are parabolas and equations, orders of operations and cosines, but at this campus, those lead into topics such as Mad Cow Disease, coral photosynthesis and a crab’s sense of smell. The Department of Applied...

Our first class alumnus Paul Tranquilli presents his research at the department seminar

August 31, 2019
Welcome back, Dr. Tranquilli!

Welcome New Cohort 2019!

August 20, 2019
Welcome New Cohort 2019! (1st row) Amandeep Kaur, Adam Binswanger, De Zhen Zhou (physics), Andrew Lazar, Matteo Polimeno (2nd row) Cayce Fylling, Alex Ho, Benjamin Latham, Cory Mccullough

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