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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...

New NASA-Affiliated Center Opening at UC Merced

June 15, 2015
MERCED, Calif. — NASA has awarded a group of researchers at the University of California, Merced, $5 million to establish the campus’s largest extramurally funded research and education center to date, designed to benefit current and future students and contribute to NASA’s...

Researcher Wins Fulbright Award to Study Himalayan Hydropower

June 3, 2015
UC Merced researcher David Rheinheimer has seen the Himalayas from many angles — from his home on the Yangtze River, from the foothills as a student in India and from the Nu River in Yunnan’s Three Parallel Rivers area. But as a 2015-16 Fulbright scholar, Rheinheimer will spend the...

Most Americans Could Eat Locally, Research Shows

June 1, 2015
MERCED, Calif. — New farmland-mapping research published today shows that up to 90 percent of Americans could be fed entirely by food grown or raised within 100 miles of their homes. Professor Elliott Campbell, with the University of California, Merced, School of Engineering, discusses the...

Professor Joins Major New Robotics Initiative

May 29, 2015
UC Merced Professor Stefano Carpin will serve on the executive board of a new multidisciplinary research enterprise called the People and Robots Initiative, by the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS). The initiative will support efforts by faculty members...

Innovate to Grow Promises Exciting Developments

May 11, 2015
Innovate to Grow, the annual showcase of UC Merced student creativity, features some amazing teamwork this year, from medical and agricultural devices to mobile applications for saving energy and water. May 15 is the date for the fourth annual Innovate to Grow competition, the culmination of the...

Researcher Develops New Cloud Security Method for Mobile Users

May 4, 2015
A UC Merced researcher has come up with a new, super-efficient encryption system for smart phones that lets users secure data being sent to and retrieved from the cloud. Encrypting data on your phone or tablet — including pictures, documents and videos — protects against the kinds of...

Environmental Systems Student Wins Inaugural GradSLAM! Event

April 9, 2015
This week marked the end of the first-ever UC Merced GradSLAM! competition, in which graduate students were given just three minutes to present their research to a panel of non-specialist judges with the goal of increasing the students’ communication skills and ability to effectively present...

Floodplain Management Can Increase Groundwater Supply

April 9, 2015
California’s groundwater is being rapidly depleted because cities and farms extract more than is replenished naturally, compacting local aquifers and decreasing supply in some places in the Central Valley. And, it turns out, levees placed along rivers in the late 1800s and early 1900s to...

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