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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

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.

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