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Northwestern Magazine Highlights Professor Ashlie Martini's Work to Get Humans to Mars

September 30, 2021
... (excerpt from article) Preventing Wear and Tear on Mars Rovers Before humans even set foot on Mars, they will already have a cache of Martian rocks and soil to study back on Earth, thanks to the Mars Perseverance rover, which landed on the planet in February. The rover’s caching...

West Coast Researchers Turn to Biochar in Fight Against Climate Change

September 30, 2021
Mechanical Engineering Professor Gerardo Diaz, Ph.D.,and his team, and Professor Rebecca Ryals, Ph.D., are turning agricultural by-products into a versatile substance known as biochar and studying the effects on climate change. Read more: https://abc7news.com/biochar-wildfires-...

USDA-funded Internship Program Introduced New Bobcats to Agriculture Research

September 20, 2021
Shortly before the fall semester kicked off in person, 11 students were wrapping up their first summer on campus as part of the FACTS summer bridge program. FACTS stands for San Joaquin Valley Food and Agriculture Cyberinformatics Tools and Science. The six-week summer course, funded by the United...

New AI Institute Expands UC Merced’s Smart, Sustainable Agriculture Effort

July 29, 2021
With a new $20 million federal grant, UC Merced becomes part of a multi-institutional research collaborative to develop artificial intelligence — or AI — solutions to tackle some of agriculture’s biggest challenges related to water management, climate change and integration of new technology into...

ME faculty nominated for the secretary of ASME Technical Committee

June 30, 2021
Prof. Sachin Goyal was recently nominated for the secretary position of ASME Technical Committee on MSNDC. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He has research interests in the areas of nonlinear dynamics of structures, controls and continuum mechanics with...

Strauss Foundation Winner, Recent Grad Works to Improve Wheelchair Accessibility

June 29, 2021
In July, Joseph Bello will present his findings for the prestigious Donald A. Strauss Foundation scholarship to United Spinal, the longstanding nonprofit dedicated to overcoming the stigma of disability and increasing inclusivity for wheelchair users. It has taken months of work to prepare, but...

A recent ME alum wins the NASA University Student Design Challenge

June 21, 2021
A recent ME alum, Skye Rummer (Class of 2021), won the University Student Design Challenge by NASA!   NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland recently announced the winners of its University Student Design Challenge. “This year’s design challenge...

University Friends Circle Recognizes Six Students and Two Service Organizations with Awards

May 14, 2021
Since 2008, University Friends Circle (UFC) has shown its support to UC Merced students through programs that promote community interaction. One way UFC has been a critical advocate of the campus is by raising funds each year for UC Merced students and organizations through an endowed scholarship...

Engineering Ag Tech Solutions Just One Element of Annual Innovate to Grow Expo

May 12, 2021
You can’t avoid seeing grazing cattle in California’s Central Valley, where UC Merced has its own pastured cows on campus. Now imagine if those cows were kept secluded without the use of a fence, or at least not one visible to the eye. This is just one of the experimental projects teams of...

Shayna Bennett Wins Grad Slam at UC Merced

April 21, 2021
Applied Mathematics graduate student Shayna Bennett will represent UC Merced at the University of California Grad Slam finals on May 7. For the campus’s Grad Slam final round, Bennett presented her dissertation research, “A New Tool to Fight Invasive Species,” in just three minutes and earned first...

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