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Premier Gravitational Waves Researcher is Guest Speaker at UC Merced Event

March 5, 2020
Physics Professor Gabriela González is one of the world’s leading researchers in gravitational wave research and the global spokesperson for the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) Scientific Collaboration which proved one of Albert Einstein’s predictions about the universe....
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‘Philanthropy Day’ Celebrates UC Merced’s Growing Culture of Giving

March 4, 2020
The Bobcat culture of giving will be celebrated with cookies and fun on Thursday, as the campus marks UC Merced Philanthropy Day hosted by the Student Alumni Association. “The annual celebration highlights and supports the spirit of philanthropy across the campus community,” said...

New York Times: Super Tuesday Coverage

March 3, 2020

NVIDIA Awards Fellowship to EECS Student for Computing Research

March 2, 2020
The NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship Program awarded up to $50,000 to UC Merced graduate student Xueting Li for her research in self-supervised learning and relation learning between different visual elements. Li, a third-year Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Ph.D. student in Professor Ming-...

Science Mag: Tracking Communication Networks and Diffusion of Information

February 28, 2020
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Researchers Forge a New Weapon to Fight Parasites and Other Infections

February 27, 2020
Breakthrough collaborative science by an interdisciplinary team of researchers brought together by computational biology Professor David Ardell promises a new approach for treating all types of infections. Infections have become more dangerous in recent years because bacteria and parasites...
Psychological Sciences Ph.D. student Maria Ramirez Loyola is working to understand why some people are better equipped than others to handle stressful experiences.

Grad Student's Research Seeks Key Characteristics to Resiliency

February 26, 2020
From a young age, Maria Ramirez Loyola has been fascinated by the trait of resiliency. Her mother escaped an abusive marriage and fled from Mexico to the U.S. with two small children in tow. Ramirez Loyola witnessed first-hand the stress and sleepless nights her mother endured to make ends meet and...
Psychological Sciences Ph.D. student Maria Ramirez Loyola is working to understand why some people are better equipped than others to handle stressful experiences.

Grad Student Seeks Key Characteristics to Resiliency

February 26, 2020
From a young age, Maria Ramirez Loyola has been fascinated by the trait of resiliency. Her mother escaped an abusive marriage and fled from Mexico to the U.S. with two small children in tow. Ramirez Loyola witnessed first-hand the stress and sleepless nights her mother endured to make ends meet and...

Inside Higher Ed: Academics Air Concerns Over Student Loans

February 25, 2020

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