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Plan to Attend Innovate to Grow or Volunteer as a Judge

April 13, 2022
Now is the time to register to attend this year's Innovate to Grow (I2G) competition and see some of the 66 student engineering teams present their solutions to real-world engineering challenges. And if you would like to be a judge, organizers want to hear from you as soon as possible. You do not...

Finalists Compete for Grad Slam Champion Title April 8

March 31, 2022
UC Merced’s Graduate Division will host its annual Grad Slam competition on April 8, with graduate scholars presenting their research on topics ranging from the effects of cannabidiol (CBD) on high blood pressure, obesity and diabetes to hydrogen storage for energy collection. The systemwide...

UC Merced Grad Programs See Uptick in U.S. News Rankings

March 29, 2022
Twelve of UC Merced’s graduate programs and one of its schools are among the best in the country in the U.S. News & World Report 2023 Best Graduate Schools rankings, according to results released March 29. “It is exciting to see that our graduate programs continue to gain national recognition;...

Celebrate National Engineers Week with the Nine UC Engineering Schools and Programs

February 22, 2022
Founded by the National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE) in 1951, National Engineers Week is dedicated to ensuring a diverse and well-educated future engineering workforce by increasing understanding of and interest in engineering and technology careers. This year, Engineers Week runs from...

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...

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