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U.S. News & World Report Rankings Showcase Growing Engineering Program, Debuts History and Political Science

March 30, 2021
For the first time, UC Merced’s Political Science and History graduate groups made national rankings. US News & World Report’s annual rankings, released today, also highlighted the campus’s growing School of Engineering, as most of its programs climbed the charts. “UC Merced continues to...

U.S. News & World Report Rankings Showcase Growing Engineering Program, Debuts Interdisciplinary Humanities and Political Science

March 30, 2021
For the first time, UC Merced’s Political Science and Interdisciplinary Humanities (history discipline) graduate groups made national rankings. US News & World Report’s annual rankings, released today, also highlighted the campus’s growing School of Engineering, as most of its programs climbed...

CAREER Award will Support Enhanced Renewable Energy Assessments

March 22, 2021
Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Marie-Odile Fortier’s plan to make more accurate assessments of renewable energy systems’ carbon footprints has made her the fifth UC Merced recipient of the prestigious CAREER award this year. The award comes from the National Science Foundation (NSF...

Grad Slam Competition: ME Graduate Students Excel

March 12, 2021
3 out of 10 graduate students from UC Merced campus made it to the next round for the 2021 Grad Slam Competition! This is an extremely high percentage since this competition is open to all the departments and groups on campus. The three ME students are:   Karen Mohammadtabar Farhana...

Mechanical Engineering Student Named the Campus’s First Rhodes Scholar

March 10, 2021
UC Merced master’s student Selina Brinkmann has been awarded a Rhodes Scholarship for study at Oxford University — a first for the campus. “A Rhodes Scholarship being awarded to one of our UC Merced engineering students is an amazing first,” School of Engineering Dean Mark Matsumoto said. “This...

An ME graduate student wins an NSF NRT Summer fellowship

March 9, 2021
Jacques-Ezechiel Nguessan, a graduate student in Mechanical Engineering under the guidance of Professor Sachin Goyal, received a Summer 2021 Research Training Program (NRT) fellowship in Intelligent Adaptive Systems program by National Science Foundation (NSF). Congratulations!   The NSF...

UC Merced Engineers Help Test Perseverance Rover

February 18, 2021

Saima A. Sumaiya Wins STLE Research Scholarship

February 1, 2021
Baykara Lab graduate student Saima A. Sumaiya won a Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers (STLE) Northern California Section Research Scholarship. 

Innovate to Grow Coming to a Zoom Room Near You

December 15, 2020
UC Merced’s premier experiential learning expo, Innovate to Grow (I2G), is providing students, faculty and staff with a new set of experiences to learn from this year, as the event continues in a virtual format to comply with pandemic safety guidelines. “Our students, faculty and staff have adapted...

Sliding on Waves of Atoms: Lab Is First to Observe Ripples and Friction on 2D Materials

November 5, 2020
Mechanical Engineering Professor Mehmet Baykara’s latest discovery in two-dimensional (2D) materials will have implications for future space missions, as well as nanotechnology on Earth. Since the Nobel prize-winning discovery of 2D materials in 2004, scientists have believed the crystalline...

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