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LiWangs receive big NIH grants

October 19, 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...

NSF funds new high-performance computing cluster

September 19, 2014
Hrant Hratchian and a team of UC Merced computational faculty received a Major Research Infrastructure grant from the National Science Foundation to fund a new campus high-performance computing system.

New Science and Engineering Building Opens

August 19, 2014
Chemistry research groups and a brand-new NMR are starting to move into the lab space in the new Science and Engineering 2 building.

NSF grant awarded to Tao Ye

August 1, 2014
Tao Ye's group received a $510,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to investigate the self-assembly of DNA nanostructures using new single-molecule techniques.

New Organic Chemistry Faculty Baxter and Stokes join the Chemistry group

July 1, 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.

Jason Hein and Tao Ye publish a paper on trouble-shooting organic reactions and studying the surface chemistry by AFM

June 19, 2014
Jason Hein and Tao Ye recently published a paper on trouble-shooting organic reactions and studying the surface chemistry by AFM.

REU program in Application in Modern Materials is funded by NSF

December 1, 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.

Isborn wins ACS-PRF award

October 1, 2013
Computational chemist Christine Isborn wins the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund award for "Quantum Mechanical Calculations of Large-Scale Explicit Solvation."

Filipp joins the Chemistry graduate group

September 1, 2013
Cancer researcher Fabian Filipp joins the Chemistry and Chemical Biology graduate group.

C&EN highlights UC Merced

August 1, 2013
UC Merced's 10th birthday is discussed in Chemical & Engineering News.

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