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Grad Students Win Poster Awards at NCCAVS

February 22, 2022
Mechanical engineering graduate students Saima A. Sumaiya and Wai H. Oo in the Baykara Lab won first and second place at the student poster competition held during the 2022 Technical Symposium of the Northern California Chapter of the American Vacuum Society (NCCAVS).

Prof. Goyal Receives Prestigious CAREER Award

January 20, 2022
Mechanical engineering Professor Sachin Goyal has received a CAREER award for his research into how the arrangements of atoms and interatomic bonds affect the deformability of biological filaments such as those that control gene expression, and whether it’s possible to design them for desired...

Workshops Train Researchers in the Art of Getting Grants

January 11, 2022
It’s one thing to push the frontiers of discovery through research into complex subjects. It’s quite another to align your work with the funding priorities of numerous federal programs, especially when seeking center-level funding to continue that research. Enter UC Merced’s Office of Research and...

Cobian and Davila Win CITRIS Seed Award

December 15, 2021
Professor Jeanette Cobian wins a CITRIS Seed Award alongside collaborators, Professor Lilian Davila (UC Merced) and Professor Scott Moura (UC Berkeley). The seed grant will provide the team $60,000 to study resilient eco-friendly materials and novel sensors. Cobian's team will conduct fire...

Pinto de Castro and Ehsani Awarded CITRIS Seed Funding

December 10, 2021
Profesors Ricardo Pinto de Castro and Reza Ehsani received the 2021 CITRIS Seed Award to investigate practical pathways to electrify tractors in farming operations.

Engineering Students Translate Math Curriculum, Build App to Help Early Learners

November 17, 2021
It’s a scene familiar to many students: sitting at the kitchen table, utterly hopeless because they can’t solve that tricky math problem. Many people can identify with that feeling and if it’s not conquered, it can turn into what Chris Wright calls “math phobia” — something students at UC Merced...

M2FCT Consortium Awards Chuang Lab Hydrogen Funding

November 15, 2021
In its first-ever round of discretionary funding awards, the Million Mile Fuel Cell Truck (M2FCT) Consortium has granted nearly $1 million to five universities to move forward with innovative hydrogen research projects that can respond to the nation’s need to address the...

OMRON Endowed Scholarship to Help Engineering Students in the Robotics Field

November 4, 2021
Many UC Merced students are first-generation college students, meaning they are the first in their families to pursue college degrees and the types of careers having a degree affords. UC Merced’s strong relationships with industry partners plays a key role in helping students navigate these career...

Researchers Win First Place in 2021 IEEE VTS Motor Vehicles Challenge

November 2, 2021
An international team of UC Merced and University of Porto, Portugal, researchers won the first prize of the 2021 IEEE VTS Motor Vehicles Challenge.

NSF Grant to Help Grad Students Find Solutions to Environmental Challenges

November 1, 2021
Graduate students and a convergence of physics, engineering and environmental science could result in not only the next generation of solutions to pressing environmental challenges, but a new group of diverse and globally competitive nano-engineers, as well. A nearly $2 million grant from the...

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