Graduate Division

Friday 21 September 2018

Postdoc Earns Grant to Study Health Disparities

Jaapna Dhillon is the campus’s first postdoctoral researcher to receive NIH Pathway to Independence Award.Jaapna Dhillon is the campus’s first postdoctoral researcher to receive NIH...

Environmental Systems Graduate Student Vicky Espinoza

Environmental Systems Student's Research Helps to Address Climate Change

Graduate student Vicky Espinoza and UC Merced professors helped write the San Joaquin Valley section of the Fourth California Climate Change Assessment.

Preparing for Success

The Competitive Edge Summer Bridge program provides selected incoming grad students the tools to be succeessful at UC Merced. Find tips and resources available to ease your...

QSB’s Portia Mira Places Third at GradSlam Finals

Graduate student Portia Mira earned third place in the University of California’s 2018 Grad Slam competition, marking UC Merced’s first appearance as a top-three finalist during the...

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Featured News

Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow Colleen Cheverko's research focuses on the interactions between growth disruptions due to experiences during childhood and subsequent mortality risk as adults.

Campus Awards Chancellor’s Postdoc Fellowships

September 19, 2018

Two of UC Merced’s newest postdoctoral researchers, Colleen Cheverko and Maria-Elena Young, received the Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship (CPFP) for 2018-2019. The fellowships, which are for one...

Professor’s Novel Mercury-Mapping Project Wins State Grant

September 19, 2018

Civil and environmental engineering Professor Erin Hestir’s proposal for a unique system of mapping mercury in the waters of the San Francisco Delta has won her and her team of collaborators a $1.7...

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Graduate Division Videos

Applied Mathematics

Biological Engineering & Small-Scale Technologies (BEST)

Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Cognitive and Information Sciences

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Environmental Systems

Interdisciplinary Humanities

Mechanical Engineering

Quantitative and Systems Biology

Physics

Political Science

Psychological Sciences

“There’s so much academic freedom here; it’s a tremendously unique opportunity.”

David Ando

Physics

“The fact that this is a smaller school was very attractive to me. You can get to know everyone in your graduate cohort, and it’s a great environment for research.”

Edwin Shen

Biological Engineering and Small-Scale Technologies

“Many other options for graduate school seem to come prepackaged with a defined future, or to create only a specific type of graduate. UC Merced has encouraged me to forge my own path and has provided an opportunity to expand and contrast my interests at my own pace.”

David Vinson

Cognitive & Informations Sciences

“I chose UC Merced because I liked the idea of being part of a smaller group where the faculty knew who I was and were excited to work with me.”

Neama Alamri

Interdisciplinary Humanities

“Our sociology graduate program is so diverse - it makes such a difference in the overall experience of being a student here.”

Wendy Puquirre

Sociology

“Research is founded on being able to figure out problems - our groups are so close that we all talk and know about each other’s projects, which really helps to inject interesting ideas and methods into our work.”

Bridget Martinez

Quantitative & Systems Biology

Faculty Profile

Kara McCloskey

Associate Professor

Dr. McCloskey is the founder and first chair of the Biological Engineering and Small-scale Technologies (BEST) graduate program and serves as the university liaison for the UC Systemwide Bioengineering Multicampus Research Unit.

kmccloskey@ucmerced.edu

Dave Ardell

Assistant Professor

Dr. Ardell is the chair of the Quantitative & Systems Biology graduate program. His research focuses on computational biology and evolution of gene expression mechanisms.

dardell@ucmerced.edu

Arturo Arias

Professor and John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Chair

aarias26@ucmerced.edu

Ramesh Balasubramaniam

Professor

ramesh@ucmerced.edu

Marc Beutel

Associate Professor and Graduate Chair of Environmental Systems

mbeutel@ucmerced.edu

Harish Bhat

Associate Professor and chair of the Applied Mathematics Graduate Group

hbhat@ucmerced.edu

Paul Brown

Professor

Dr. Brown is the Chair of Public Health and the Director of the Health Sciences Research Institute at UC Merced. His research interests include Public Health Systems and Services Research (PHSSR), cancer prevention and control, discrete choice experiments, and behavioral economics.

pbrown3@ucmerced.edu

Thomas G. Hansford

Associate Professor and chair of the Political Science Graduate Group

thansford@ucmerced.edu

Linda S. Hirst

Professor and chair of the Physics Graduate Group

lhirst@ucmerced.edu

Ashlie Martini

Associate Professor

Dr. Martini is the chair of the Mechanical Engineering graduate group. Her research focus is application of atomic-scale models and micro-scale friction measurements to understand fundamental mechanisms underlying tribological phenomena.

amartini@ucmerced.edu

Peggy O'Day

Professor

Dr. O'Day is the chair of the Environmental Systems graduate group. She studies the chemistry, reaction, and transport of inorganic contaminants and species, primarily metal and metalloid elements, in surface and subsurface systems.

poday@ucmerced.edu