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Research Reveals Collective Dynamics of Active Matter Systems
March 10, 2020
Flocks of starlings producing dazzling patterns across the sky are natural examples of active matter — groups of individual agents coming together to create collective dynamics. In a study featured on last week’s cover of the journal... Read More
New Tech Will Change How People Use Mobile Devices
March 9, 2020
Two projects from a UC Merced engineering lab are making interactions with mobile devices easier and quicker, especially for blind people. Computer science Professor Ahmed Arif and his students have developed a new way for blind people... Read More
Researchers Forge a New Weapon to Fight Parasites and Other Infections
February 27, 2020
Breakthrough collaborative science by an interdisciplinary team of researchers brought together by computational biology Professor David Ardell promises a new approach for treating all types of infections. Infections have become more... Read More
‘Yes, You Can’: UC Merced Students Learning, Growing at Livermore Lab
February 24, 2020
Just 90 miles from the future of higher education — UC Merced — lies one of the epicenters of the future of technology, innovation and national security. Regardless of the route you take, the journey from UC Merced to Lawrence Livermore... Read More
Researchers Discover Mechanism Proteins Use To Find And Control Genes
February 19, 2020
Bioengineering Professor Victor Muñoz has answered a long-standing genetic mystery, and his research suggests that someday, bioengineers could devise ways to control gene activity — manually switching off the genes that contribute to... Read More
‘E-Week’ Shines Spotlight on Engineering Field, Students
February 18, 2020
Competitions, showcases, career success stories and more highlight the work of the School of Engineering and its students at UC Merced’s annual celebration of National Engineers Week, Feb. 18 to 21. E-Week is an opportunity for engineering... Read More
National Academy of Engineers Elects Kurtz Into Its Ranks
February 13, 2020
Professor Sarah Kurtz has become the first UC Merced faculty member to be elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in recognition of her contributions to the development of gallium indium phosphide/gallium arsenide... Read More
National Academy of Engineering Elects Kurtz Into Its Ranks
February 13, 2020
Professor Sarah Kurtz has become the first UC Merced faculty member to be elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in recognition of her contributions to the development of gallium indium phosphide/gallium arsenide... Read More
Breakthrough in Stem Cell Research: First Image of Niche Environment
February 13, 2020
Professor Joel Spencer was a rising star in college soccer and now he is an emerging scientist in the world of biomedical engineering, capturing — for the first time — an image of a hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) within the bone marrow of... Read More
UC Merced Alumna Represents Valley at State of the Union
February 12, 2020
One of UC Merced’s original students, Enid Picart — soon to graduate from the UCSF San Joaquin Valley Program in Medical Education (SJV PRIME) — represented the San Joaquin Valley in a big way last week by attending the State of the Union... Read More