For the first time, UC Merced’s Political Science and History graduate groups made national rankings.
US News & World Report’s annual rankings, released today, also highlighted the campus’s growing School of Engineering, as most of its programs climbed the charts.
“UC Merced continues to...
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March 30, 2021
March 30, 2021
For the first time, UC Merced’s Political Science and Interdisciplinary Humanities (history discipline) graduate groups made national rankings.
US News & World Report’s annual rankings, released today, also highlighted the campus’s growing School of Engineering, as most of its programs climbed...
March 22, 2021
Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Marie-Odile Fortier’s plan to make more accurate assessments of renewable energy systems’ carbon footprints has made her the fifth UC Merced recipient of the prestigious CAREER award this year.
The award comes from the National Science Foundation (NSF...
March 12, 2021
3 out of 10 graduate students from UC Merced campus made it to the next round for the 2021 Grad Slam Competition! This is an extremely high percentage since this competition is open to all the departments and groups on campus. The three ME students are:
Karen Mohammadtabar
Farhana...
March 10, 2021
UC Merced master’s student Selina Brinkmann has been awarded a Rhodes Scholarship for study at Oxford University — a first for the campus.
“A Rhodes Scholarship being awarded to one of our UC Merced engineering students is an amazing first,” School of Engineering Dean Mark Matsumoto said. “This...
March 9, 2021
Jacques-Ezechiel Nguessan, a graduate student in Mechanical Engineering under the guidance of Professor Sachin Goyal, received a Summer 2021 Research Training Program (NRT) fellowship in Intelligent Adaptive Systems program by National Science Foundation (NSF). Congratulations!
The NSF...
December 15, 2020
UC Merced’s premier experiential learning expo, Innovate to Grow (I2G), is providing students, faculty and staff with a new set of experiences to learn from this year, as the event continues in a virtual format to comply with pandemic safety guidelines.
“Our students, faculty and staff have adapted...
November 5, 2020
Mechanical Engineering Professor Mehmet Baykara’s latest discovery in two-dimensional (2D) materials will have implications for future space missions, as well as nanotechnology on Earth.
Since the Nobel prize-winning discovery of 2D materials in 2004, scientists have believed the crystalline...
August 31, 2020
UC Merced is rapidly gaining a strong reputation for research and scientific computing across many disciplines and a major expansion of its computing infrastructure is about to cement the campus’ status as a research computing hub.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is supplying $700,000 and the...