Chemical Sciences

Grad Programs Make U.S. News Rankings Debut

For the first time, UC Merced’s doctoral programs in the sciences have been ranked among the best in the nation, according to U.S. News & World Report’s 2019 edition of Best Graduate Schools.

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

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 Excellence in Science and Technology (NSF-CREST).

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Researcher Continues Progress Toward Effective HIV Inhibitor

Plate containing silk fibroin disks used to deliver HIV inhibitors. Patricia LiWang was at an impasse.

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New UC Grant Enables Deeper, Broader Valley Fever Research

Professors Hernday, Hoyer and Nobile (from left to right) play integral roles in a new Valley fever research project. Researchers at UC Merced are playing key roles in the new UC Valley Fever Research Initiative, studying

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NIH Supports Professor’s Work in Inhibiting HIV Infection

Biochemistry Professor Patricia LiWang calls it a stroke of luck that she has become enmeshed in HIV research, but her developments are no accident.

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Nobel Laureate Offers Chemistry Seminar

Professor K. Barry Sharpless of Scripps Research Institute and the 2001 winner of the Nobel Prize in chemistry, will offer a chemistry seminar at UC Merced at 3 p.m. Friday in COB 120.