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Prof. Anne Kelley highlighted in Marie Curie issue of JPC

November 6, 2017
The Journal of Physical Chemistry highlights the research of 66 distinguished women scientists in their Marie Curie Virtual Issue. Professor Anne Myers Kelley's work on Raman spectroscopy is included as one of the highlights: Anne B. Myers: Absorption, fluorescence and resonance Raman...

Graduate student Zach Petrek interns at NASA

October 1, 2017
Zach Petrek, a graduate student in Tao Ye's group, interned at NASA over the summer. Read more about it here.    

‘Genius’ Award Winner and TED Lecturer to Speak at UC Merced

September 20, 2017
On Sept. 22, MacArthur "Genius" Award winner and Stanford University bioengineering Professor Manu Prakash will deliver the keynote lecture at the first annual open house for UC Merced’s Center for Cellular and Biomolecular Machines (CCBM), a National Science Foundation Center of Research...

Researcher Continues Progress Toward Effective HIV Inhibitor

June 19, 2017
Patricia LiWang was at an impasse. It was 2011 and the UC Merced professor’s research group had figured out how to make some of the most potent HIV inhibitors even more powerful. LiWang was thrilled by these findings; funding agencies like the National Institutes of Health (NIH) weren’t. “Our...

Professor Anne Kelley serving as Chair-Elect / Chair of the APS’s Division of Laser Science

June 16, 2017
Anne Kelley is currently serving as Chair-Elect of the American Physical Society’s Division of Laser Science.  She will move up to Chair for a one-year term starting in October, 2017.

Chemistry faculty awarded CETL Fellowship to develop computational teaching tools

June 1, 2017
Chemistry professors Erik Menke and Hrant Hratchian have been awarded a Faculty Fellowship by the UC Merced Center for Engaged Teaching and Learning. This CETL award supports work by Profs. Menke and Hratchian developing, implementing, and assessing new computational chemistry based learning...

Stokes group publishes new intramolecular hydroarylation reactions

May 5, 2017
The Stokes group publishes their work on new catalytic intramolecular hydroarylations of β-(α,α-dimethylbenzyl)styrenes in Organic Letters.

Hratchian group funded to explore the chemistry of metal oxides

April 30, 2017
Professor Hratchian is awarded a Hellman Family Fellowship Professor Hrant Hratchian has been named a Hellman Family Faculty Fellow. During the fellowship period (2017-2018 Academic Year), the Hratchian Group will pursue the development of efficient electronic structure theory models and will...

New instrumentation arrives on campus thanks to DoD grant.

April 15, 2017
A group of eight faculty received a DoD HBCU/MI instrumentation grant for $495,850 to acquire three new instruments for shared research use:   ·         A Bruker Vertex 70 research grade FTIR with far-IR and ATR capabilities.  ...

New UC Grant Enables Deeper, Broader Valley Fever Research

February 1, 2017
Researchers at UC Merced are playing key roles in the new UC Valley Fever Research Initiative, studying how the Valley fever fungus, Coccidioides immitis, causes disease in its mammalian hosts, and identifying the genes involved in this process. School of Natural Sciences professors Clarissa Nobile...

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