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Latest News and Research Highlights
- October 2014 - Both Patti LiWang and Andy LiWang's research groups have recently received R01 grants from the NIH! The grant in Patti's group will be used to study the stability of proteins for preventing HIV in developing countries, where HIV inhibitors must be stored without refrigeration. The grant in Andy's group will be used to determine how the oscillator component of a biological circadian clock transmits timing signals. Congratulations!
- September 2014 - Hrant Hratchian and a team of UCM computational faculty receive a Major Research Infrastructure grant from the National Science Foundation to fund a new campus high performance computing system.
- August 2014 - Research groups are starting to move into the brand new lab space in the new Science and Engineering 2 building.
- August 2014 - Tao Ye's group receives at $510,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to investigate the self-assembly of DNA nanostructures using new single molecule techniques.
- July 2014 - Welcome two new faculty specializing in organic synthesis and organometallic chemistry: Ryan Baxter and Ben Stokes. Ryan is setting up his lab now and Ben will be starting in January.
- December 2013 - NSF research experience for undergraduates for "Applications in Modern Materials" is approved and will be starting this summer. Interested students should email Carrie Menke (cmenke@ucmerced.edu) or Jess Vickery (jvickery@ucmerced.edu) for more info.
- October 2013 - Computational chemist Christine Isborn wins ACS PRF award for "Quantum Mechanical Calculations of Large-Scale Explicit Solvation."
- September 2013 - Cancer researcher Fabian Filipp joins the Chemistry and Chemical Biology graduate group.
- August 2013 - UC Merced's 10th birthday is discussed in C&EN.
- August 2013 - The ACS SEED program here at UC Merced is profiled in the local news.
- July 2013 - Computational chemist Hrant Hratchian joins Chemistry and Chemical Biology.
- June 2013 - Jason Hein's lab is the focus of an article in Merced's Downtown Life magazine.
- June 2013 - Alex Noy is quoted in Science article "The Cyborg Era Begins."
- June 2013 - Recent graduate Eric Josephs is featured on UC Newsroom for his nanotechnology research and advocacy activities.
- May 2013 - Graduate student Gary Abel wins the Outstanding TA award for Natural Sciences!
- December 2012 - Andy LiWang's research on circadian clocks is featured in C&EN, PNAS, and Nature Reviews Microbiology.
- December 2012 - Christine Isborn's research using GPUs is highlighted in University News.
- November 2012 - Specialist in bionanoelectronics Alex Noy joins the Chemistry and Chemical Biology graduate group.
- August 2012 - Computational chemist Christine Isborn joins Chemistry and Chemical Biology.
- June 2012 - Anne Myers Kelley's textbook "Condensed Phase Molecular Spectroscopy and Photophysics" is published by Wiley.
- May 2012 - Congratulations to Justin Hujdic and Marina Stavytska-Barba for earning their Ph.D.'s this semester!
- April 23, 2012 - Marina Stavytska-Barba, a graduate student in Anne Kelley's lab, was recently recognized as an outstanding chemistry teacher by Merced College. Congratulations!
