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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...

Local Students Gain Lab Experience in Summer Program

July 30, 2015
As a high school student in Merced, Ana Arteaga didn’t know which academic path she would choose in college. But her route became clear after she spent two summers in a chemistry lab at UC Merced. In May, Arteaga graduated with a chemistry degree from UC Merced and now is headed to...

Anne and David Kelley receive a 3-year, $510,000 grant from the NSF for studying electron-phonon coupling in semiconductor nanocrystals

July 15, 2015
Anne and David Kelley received a 3-year, $510,000 grant from the NSF starting in July to measure and synthetically manipulate electron-phonon coupling in semiconductor nanocrystals.

Gary Abel receives Dean's Dissertation Fellowship

June 26, 2015

Professor Andy LiWang's research published in Science

June 26, 2015
LiWang's research on circadian clocks is in Science magazine. Here is a news write-up.

New Nanomaterials Center for Energy and Sensing

June 16, 2015
An interdisciplinary group of UC Merced faculty, including CCB's Tao Ye, plan to create new materials solutions enabling high-performance, reliable, compact and lightweight energy conversion, storage and sensing devices for NASA missions. This $5 million grant will lead to innovative...

Chemistry postdoc receives Chancellor's Fellowship

May 20, 2015
Makenzie Provorse wins the Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowship!

Congratulations to all our graduates!

May 16, 2015

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