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Tribology Students Win Honors

June 1, 2014
Mechanical engineering students Xiaoli Hu and Hongyu Gao have both won awards this spring. Hu took first place in the student poster competition at the annual meeting of the Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers in May. In April, Gao received the Chinese Government Award for Outstanding...

MESA Lab Showcased in UC Merced Magazine

November 4, 2013
YangQuan Chen's Mechtronics, Embedded Systems and Automation Laboratory (MESA Lab) is the featured cover story in the inaugural issue of UC Merced Magazine, a glossy publication produced by University Communications in the fall and spring. The feature story, written by professional journalist...

Professor and Students Study Deformations to Increase Health

March 30, 2013
People don’t often think of deformation as a good thing. But when it comes to biofilaments – such as strands of DNA – it’s not only good, it’s necessary for the biofilament to complete its functions. When biofilaments twist, twine, bend or loop in the ways that...

National Science Foundation Grant Supports Biodiversity Research

September 25, 2012
A $1.9 million grant from the National Science Foundation will support a five-year investigation by University of California, Merced, researchers into environmental changes in marine lakes, including why some species adapt while others go extinct. The grant also is helping spread...

Engineering Professor Looks to Make an Impact

February 7, 2012
Professor Ashlie Martini was looking for the chance to make a difference when she took a post at UC Merced. Martini, now a professor in the UC Merced School of Engineering, was most recently a faculty member at Purdue University, home to about 40,000 students. But she wanted to work at a...

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