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New Tech Will Change How People Use Mobile Devices

March 9, 2020

Two projects from a UC Merced engineering lab are making interactions with mobile devices easier and quicker, especially for blind people. Computer science Professor Ahmed Arif and his students have developed a new way for blind people to be faster and more accurate when entering text, and a new...

Pellissier Lecture Canceled

March 5, 2020

Because of concerns around the COVID-19 virus, UC Merced leadership has decided to cancel this year's Pellessier lecture, which had been scheduled for Wednesday, March 11. The health and safety of the campus community — including supporters and visitors from the community — is UC Merced's utmost...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

‘Yes, You Can’: UC Merced Students Learning, Growing at Livermore Lab

February 24, 2020

Just 90 miles from the future of higher education — UC Merced — lies one of the epicenters of the future of technology, innovation and national security. Regardless of the route you take, the journey from UC Merced to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) will include twists and turns, ups...

New "Babies" Series on Netflix Features UC Merced Professor's Research on Development

February 21, 2020

Psychology Professor Eric Walle found something interesting when he studied babies who were walking compared to those who were crawling: Babies who walk are not only more mobile, they have vocabularies that are significantly larger than those of the crawlers. It’s a finding that applies to babies...

Researchers Discover Mechanism Proteins Use To Find And Control Genes

February 19, 2020

Bioengineering Professor Victor Muñoz has answered a long-standing genetic mystery, and his research suggests that someday, bioengineers could devise ways to control gene activity — manually switching off the genes that contribute to cancer, for instance. “If this mechanism turns out to be as...