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UC Merced Water Research Earns Share of $50 Million Grant

October 20, 2015
By Lorena Anderson, University Communications   The University of California, Merced, just became part of a massive, five-year, multi-million-dollar international research consortium that tackles water-related aspects of energy production and use. The campus will...

Engineering Student Making an Impact on Agriculture

October 16, 2015
By Mark Lore, For University Communications   Rebecca Quinte is a mechanical engineer who is learning to apply her skills and knowledge in unexpected ways, and that could end up benefitting farmers in the Central Valley and beyond.   The UC...

New Dean Brings Experience

September 14, 2015
New School of Engineering Dean Mark Matsumoto is not new to UC Merced. In fact, he’s not even new as the engineering dean, having served in the interim between founding Dean Jeff Wright and Dean Daniel Hirleman. Matsumoto has a “long-standing interest in UC Merced,” starting...

Sun and Salt: How Solar Tech Can Help California’s Drought

September 11, 2015
In the midst of California’s ongoing drought, researchers at the University of California Advanced Solar Technologies Institute (UC Solar) at UC Merced are turning to an unlikely ally to help solve the problem of water availability for California’s farmlands: the sun....

New Supercomputer Can Advance Diverse Array of Research

September 2, 2015
A new supercomputer assembled on campus this summer is the first step toward making UC Merced a computational training ground for researchers throughout the Central Valley. “We can do extraordinarily diverse research with this computer, from quantum mechanics to the topology of...

Students Recognized for Important MESA Lab Projects

August 28, 2015
Professor YangQuan Chen has many reasons to be proud of his Mechatronics, Embedded Systems and Automation (MESA) Lab. Besides being extremely popular — so popular the lab has to turn away applicants — the lab now has nine Federal Aviation Administration certificates to fly...

Matsumoto Appointed Dean of School of Engineering

July 20, 2015
Mark Matsumoto has been named dean of the School of Engineeringat the University of California, Merced, the university announced today. His appointment is effective Sept. 1, 2015. Matsumoto is currently associate dean for research and graduate education in the Bourns College of...

Science and Engineering Researchers Stay Busy in Summer

July 13, 2015
The summer might mean an extended break for some in the campus community, but UC Merced researchers are busier than ever. Whether here or abroad, many professors and students are taking advantage of the time off to pursue important research projects.  Here are a few examples from the...

Researchers Align Atomic Friction Experiments

June 22, 2015
Working together to study friction on the atomic scale, researchers at UC Merced and the University of Pennsylvania have conducted the first atomic-scale experiments and simulations of friction at overlapping speeds. In “Dynamics of Atomic Stick-Slip Friction Examined with Atomic...

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