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Professor Jennifer Lee Receives NSF DMREF Award to Study the Dynamic Behavior of Well-Controlled Catalysts

November 25, 2025
Professor Jennifer Lee is the co-PI on a four-year project selected by the National Science Foundation Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future (DMREF) program. This project is led by Siddarth Krishna at University of Wisconsin-Madison, other members of the team...

UC Merced Chemist Wins DOE Award to Simulate Electron Motion at Quantum Speeds

November 5, 2025
Chemistry Professor Henrik Larsson has received a prestigious Early Career Award from the U.S. Department of Energy, becoming the first faculty member from UC Merced’s School of Natural Sciences to earn the honor. The award includes more than $878,000 in funding over five years to support Larsson’s...

UC Merced Leads National Effort to Unlock Quantum Secrets of Twisty Molecules

October 27, 2025
A team of scientists led by UC Merced is embarking on a project to understand how the twisted shapes of specific molecules can influence the spin of electrons — a phenomenon that could revolutionize solar energy, electronics and quantum computing. The research, funded by the U.S. Department of...

Abigail Gyamfi Honored for Excellence in Mentorship and Community Impact

October 6, 2025
Chemistry and Biochemistry Ph.D. student Abigail Gyamfi was recognized by the California Section of the American Chemical Society Summer Experiences for the Economically Disadvantaged (SEED) Program and the Women Chemists Committee (WCC). “This is the first time a graduate student has been...

A New Adventure for Two Founding Faculty Chemists: Retirement

August 18, 2025
Starting a university from scratch isn’t for the faint of heart — or the slow of foot. Lucky for UC Merced, Anne Myers Kelley and David Kelley are neither. Anne, a former Olympic marathon trials qualifier, and David, a competitive cyclist, were no strangers to long, grueling efforts when they...

Vaping Produces a Chemical that Destroys Human Tissue, Research Shows

August 7, 2025
In addition to being used recreationally, marijuana and cannabidiol, or CBD, one of the cannabinoids produced by the marijuana plant, are thought to have medical benefits such as helping with chemotherapy-induced nausea, treating epilepsy, relieving pain and helping with a variety of mental health...

LiWang’s Research into Biological Clocks Earns Protein Society Honors

July 21, 2025
Professor Andy LiWang knows what makes us tick, at least at a cellular level. His research into the mechanisms of the oldest biological clock known to humankind has led him to understand how proteins — and hence cells — can tell time. It has also led the UC Merced biochemist to become this year's...

Alumna Laura Showalter, Foundation Diplomat Jane Binger Create Chemical Sciences Scholarship

June 10, 2025
UC Merced students pursuing degrees in chemical sciences now have access to a new source of financial support, thanks to a gift from two of the university’s most dedicated advocates. Alumna Laura Showalter ’16, ’18 and UC Merced Foundation Diplomat Dr. Jane Binger have established the Showalter...

Students Awarded Prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

June 4, 2025
Two UC Merced graduate students and an alum from the School of Natural Sciences were recently awarded fellowships from the highly competitive National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program. This year, NSF awarded 1,000 GRFP fellowships compared to about 2,000 in previous years....

Join the Chemistry Society for an Elephant Toothpaste Experiment

March 12, 2025
The Chemistry Society will host an elephant toothpaste experiment on Thrusday, March 13th at 6:30pm in the ACS 2nd floor lounge.   

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