The CREST Center for Cellular and Biomolecular Machines offers extensive training opportunities for graduate and undergraduate students, supporting research that studies how biological matter effectively behave as machines.
The NASA-funded Merced Nanomaterials Center for Energy and Sensing (MaCES) promotes innovative and collaborative research in functional nano materials for energy and sensing for NASA missions, while also addressing terrestrial needs for early disease diagnosis and for clean and renewable energy.
The Sierra Nevada Research Institute (SNRI) brings together more than 30 UC Merced faculty members who conduct basic and applied research in the "outdoor laboratory" of the Sierra Nevada region and the San Joaquin Valley.
The Intelligent Adaptive Systems group at UC Merced, funded by NSF's National Research Traineeship (NRT) program, brings significant resources to campus to make interdisciplinary breakthroughs in theories and application of intelligent adaptive systems. The program will fund 50 doctoral students and provide training opportunities for 100 graduate students over the next few years.
