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MACES Hosts Big Bash to Highlight Tiny Technology

April 27, 2017
MACES, the Merced nAnomaterials Center for Energy and Sensing, held its second annual open house on April 19, showcasing student research and highlighting the center’s connection to NASA. The daylong event kicked off with remarks from MACES Director and Professor Jennifer Lu, who shared her vision...

Renewable Power Project Could Help Cut Food Processing Costs, Feed People and Animals

March 21, 2017
Researchers at UC Solar have developed and tested an innovative solar thermal-powered process for turning the pomace, or byproduct, of vegetable and fruit processing into reusable products, potentially lowering food-processing plant costs and reducing their carbon footprints. With collaborators at...

Startups Poised to Make Strides for Local Economy

March 17, 2017
Two startup companies run by UC Merced alumni have taken big steps toward the kind of success many entrepreneurs can only hope for. St. Vincent’s Solutions, which makes a humidifying respirator for premature babies, and Sweep Energy, which makes energy-monitoring devices for production facilities...

Graduate Programs on the Rise, U.S. News Rankings Show

March 14, 2017
At just 12 years old, the graduate programs at the University of California, Merced, are already among the best in the nation, according to the U.S. News & World Report’s 2018 Best Graduate Schools rankings. UC Merced’s School of Engineering made its second appearance in the graduate school...

New Initiative Advances Agriculture Technology Education

March 13, 2017
As agriculture and food production achieve greater high-tech heights and resources such as water become more scarce, the country will increasingly depend on innovative solutions from its brightest minds. A new initiative at UC Merced aims to poise today’s students at the leading edge of the nexus...

New UC Solar Project Produces Both Heat and Power

March 7, 2017
One of California’s greatest energy challenges is finding innovative ways to lower natural gas consumption to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change. To help meet that challenge, a new solar energy system that produces both heat and electricity might not be far away...

Raindrops, Red Wine Inspire Solar Tech Advancements

February 6, 2017
In recent publications, Professor Vincent Tung proves that inspiration for advancements in materials science can come from anywhere — even the merging of raindrops on a windshield or the sheeting of red wine down the inside of a glass. Through those liquid movements, Tung discovered and optimized a...

‘Diverse’ Magazine Names Groundbreaking Professor an Emerging Scholar

January 26, 2017
The magazine Diverse: Issues in Higher Education has named UC Merced Professor Ala Qattawi an Emerging Scholar of the Year in its first issue of 2017. Qattawi, with the School of Engineering, is the first woman in the United States to earn a Ph.D. in automotive engineering, and the only automotive...

An ME Grad Student Awarded with Yara N. America Almond Fellowship

December 22, 2016
  Tiebiao Zhao, a graduate student in Mechanical Engineering was recently awarded with 2016-17 Yara North America Almond Fellowship equivalent to a total of $15,000.   The prestigious Yara North America Almond Fellowship is intended to support UC Merced Ph.D. students. Ideally the...

Robots and People Working Together to Save Water and Enhance Agriculture

December 14, 2016
A nearly $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is helping University of California researchers refine collaborative robotic technology that could change the way crops are maintained worldwide, saving millions of gallons of water each year and taking precision agriculture...

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