Quantitative and Systems Biology faculty member Xuecai Ge Xuecai Ge is interviewed for the NIGMS Biomedical Beat Blog. Read to learn about Dr. Ge and the research performed by her lab! biobeat.nigms.nih.gov/2024/03/invest…

Congratulations to QSB graduate student John Espinosa for his NSF GRFP U.S. National Science Foundation award! We are looking forward to what you accomplish with your advisor Dr. Marcos Garcia-Ojeda on Biology Education Research. Graduate Division UC Merced UC Merced Nat Sci

Congratulations to QSB graduate student Luca Kuziel for his NSF GRFP U.S. National Science Foundation award! We are looking forward to what you accomplish with your advisor Matthew Hutchinson Matthew Hutchinson in community ecology. Graduate Division UC Merced UC Merced Nat Sci

Congratulations to UC Merced Nat Sci Chemistry Professor, Dr. Michael Findlater, for being named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
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Congratulations to another Academic Senate Distinguished Faculty and Non-Senate Faculty award winner from SNS, Dr. Roummel Marcia, given the Contributions to Diversity award in recognition of extraordinary contribution to diversity in research, teaching, and/or service.

Congratulations to this year's Academic Senate Distinguished Faculty and Non-Senate Faculty award winner from SNS, Dr. Michael Scheibner, awarded the Dr. Fred Spiess Distinguished Service to the Academic Senate award in recognition of outstanding service to the Academic Senate.

UC Merced Nat Sci Life and Environmental Sciences Professor, Dr. Rebecca Ryals, has been named UC Merced’s first Presidential Chair in Climate Change for her dedicated work in climate change research.
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UC Merced Nat Sci Professor, Dr. Stephanie Woo has been named a U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER Award recipient for her research on congenital birth defects at a cellular level using zebrafish embryos. Stephanie Woo #WomenInSTEM #UCMerced

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UC Merced Nat Sci faculty, David Strubbe, has been awarded a $1.3 million grant from the University of California Multicampus Research Programs and Initiatives (MRPI) to help further the understanding of controlled fusion to improve sustainable energies. news.ucmerced.edu/news/2023/uc-a…

UC Merced Nat Sci Professors, Rudy Ortiz and Michele Nishiguchi are starting a new NIH funded bioinformatics training program for rising third year students. Student will gain skills in computational biology, systems biology and big data analytics. ucm.edu/B8QLwp

UC Merced Nat Sci instructors, Laura Beaster-Jones, Marcos Garcia Ojeda and Jennifer Manilay have been featured on episode 8 of The Excellence Experiment discussing the HHMI Inclusive Excellence Project at UC Merced. Dr. Marcos Garcia-Ojeda Dr. Jennifer O. Manilay UC Merced
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UC Merced Nat Sci Professor, Michele Nishiguchi, has been named the President Elect of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) for 2023

UC Merced Nat Sci Professor Anna Nierenberg (@annanierenberg) is featured in a new NPR story about NASA's James Webb telescope and her idea to use the telescope to further understand dark matter. npr.org/2022/07/11/111…

Hannah Palmer, Ph.D. has been named the 2022-2023 Congressional Science Fellow by the geosociety and the USGS. She is UC Merced's first Congressional Science Fellow and will spend a year in D.C. providing knowledge and support to members of Congress. ucm.edu/wUODrY

Click this link for more information on the Central Valley Region Interdisciplinary Symposium on Education Research on July 22–24, 2022. Register here! teach.ucmerced.edu/education-rese…

Tune into Dr. Asmeret Asefaw Berhe's (Dr. Asmeret Asefaw Berhe (she/her)👩🏽‍🔬🌍) TED Radio Hour feature highlighting her TED Talk on how the earth's soil can help us in fighting the climate crisis. npr.org/2022/03/11/108…

The next session of the #MedEd Grand Rounds Series will be hosted by Dr. Michael Peterson, UCSF Fresno Assoc. Dean and Chair in Medicine. Register here (bit.ly/3HKYjiJ) for “Impact of a Multidisciplinary Lung Nodule Clinic on Lung Cancer Outcomes in the Central Valley”.

Anh Diep, MCB graduate student, has put together a news story highlighting the new research aiming towards creating anti-parasitic vaccines being done in the Kirk Jensen lab. bit.ly/3rimoZm

UC Merced Nat Sci & UCM Engineering professors have been granted a $2 million grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation to train graduate students in nanotech through the Convergence of Nano-engineered Devices for Environmental and Sustainability Applications (CONDESA) program. ucm.edu/6wpOGJ

UC Merced Nat Sci Professor Dr. Patti LiWang and her lab have met successful trials at the California National Primate Research Center at UC Davis for their silk-films designed to carry HIV-inhibiting cytokines.
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