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Professor Christine Isborn is PI on a grant for an HPC cluster

April 6, 2016
UC Merced will get a new high-performance computing cluster from Silicon Mechanics.  Each year, the company has a competition for the award of a high-performance computing cluster, including lots of memory, fast disk, and the latest GPUs. This year, Prof. Isborn's proposal with other UC...

Professor Christine Isborn wins ACS Junior Faculty in Computational Chemistry Award

March 15, 2016
At the ACS meeting in San Diego, Christine was presented with the ACS Open Eye Outstanding Junior Faculty Award in Computational Chemistry.

Professor Elected to Leadership Role With American Physical Society

February 23, 2016
Professor Anne Myers Kelley, with the School of Natural Sciences, has been elected vice-chair of the Division of Laser Science (DLS) of the American Physical Society (APS), the world's largest organization of physicists. Kelley, one of the first faculty members to join the campus in...

Professor Elected to Leadership Role With American Physical Society

February 23, 2016
Professor Anne Myers Kelley, with the School of Natural Sciences, has been elected vice-chair of the Division of Laser Science (DLS) of the American Physical Society (APS), the world's largest organization of physicists. Kelley, one of the first faculty members to join the campus in 2003, is with...

Campus Research Taking a Healthy Approach

November 8, 2015
By Jeremy Olson for UC Merced Magazine Editor’s note: This story originally appeared in the fall 2015 issue of UC Merced Magazine. The University of California, Merced, was plotted at the juncture of mountains, fields and urban sprawl with the mission of serving the diverse needs of the San...

Two projects are funded in Ryan Baxter's group!

October 30, 2015
The Hellman Faculty Fellowship will fund new chemical tools for biomedical imaging and the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund will support applications of N-centered radicals generated from electrochemical initiation of stable organic precursors.

New Grants Aid Chemist’s Research, Support Student Learning

October 29, 2015
Almost $2 million in grants will go a long way toward helping Professor Christine Isborn and colleagues at other universities learn more about the molecular processes involved in capturing solar energy, energy storage and telecommunications for the Department of Energy and the Department of Defense...

Event Connects High School Girls with Female Scientists

October 6, 2015
While many young women her age are thinking about their favorite shoes or who they’ll go with to the winter formal, Callie Nance, 15, is thinking about her favorite science organizations and her future as a physicist. That’s why the Dinner with a Scientist event at UC Merced last week was so...

Christine Isborn receives DOE and Air Force grants for computational research

September 15, 2015
The Isborn group is funded for two projects. The Department of Energy is supporting development of approaches to model excited state charge and energy transfer in solution (co-PIs are at Stanford and Washington University) and AFOSR is supporting improved predition of the optical properties of...

Chemistry Student Embraces Change at UC Merced

August 12, 2015
Shuhuai Xiang has seen a lot of changes during his seven years at UC Merced — only some of which are the result of the chemical reactions he studies in his graduate research work with the chemistry and chemical biology group. In 2008, Xiang arrived from his home country of China to begin his...

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