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Lip-reading Software Helps Users of All Abilities to Send Secure Messages

March 18, 2021

A computer science lab focused on making human-computer interaction easier for people of all abilities has developed a digital lip-reader complete with its own repair system so the software can continue learning from its user. LipType, a new invention from Professor Ahmed Sabbir Arif and his lab...

Undergrad Experience: Austin John Escobar

March 18, 2021

Name: Austin John Escobar Year: Third year Major: Biological Sciences with Human Emphasis; minor in Education Hometowns: Dublin, Calif., and Manila, Philippines What is a memorable project that you worked on during your time at UC Merced? I have two I want to share. The first was a being student in...

With Kleckner’s Award, Physics Department Nabs its Third CAREER Grant This Year

March 16, 2021

Physics Professor Dustin Kleckner has received a prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER award for his research — the third in his department this year. He studies how optical and acoustic binding controls interactions between/among particles and how it manipulates them into self-...

UC Merced, MUHSD Announce Merced Automatic Admission Program

March 15, 2021

UC Merced Chancellor Juan Sánchez Muñoz, Ph.D., and Merced Union High School District Superintendent Alan Peterson formally signed the first Merced Automatic Admission Program (MAAP) for students at MUHSD who complete specific requirements at the time of graduation. “We were established not just in...

Graduate Student’s Immune-system Research Attracts NIH Award

March 12, 2021

Graduate student Betsabel Chicana ’s research into understanding how the immune system works when there’s a problem inside the bones has earned her a prestigious fellowship from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Chicana, a fifth-year Quantitative and Systems Biology Ph.D. candidate who...

Undergraduate Experience: Erika Estrada Rodriquez

March 11, 2021

Name: Erika Estrada Rodriguez Year: Third Year Major: Sociology Hometown: Panorama City What is a memorable project that you worked on during your time at UC Merced? During my time at UC Merced, I have been able to be part of the Undergraduate Research in the Humanities (UROC-H) program cohort of...

Mechanical Engineering Student Named the Campus’s First Rhodes Scholar

March 10, 2021

UC Merced master’s student Selina Brinkmann has been awarded a Rhodes Scholarship for study at Oxford University — a first for the campus. “A Rhodes Scholarship being awarded to one of our UC Merced engineering students is an amazing first,” School of Engineering Dean Mark Matsumoto said. “This...

Female Faculty to Know on International Women’s Day

March 8, 2021

International Women’s Day is more than a day to celebrate the fantastic females around us. It is a day to reflect on the contributions women have made both socially and politically around the world. Women across the globe have used their gifts and talents to help others in myriad ways, and UC...

Q&A: Latinx Community Impacted by Food Insecurity During COVID-19

March 3, 2021

COVID-19 has left the food insecure population especially vulnerable. The pandemic has upset food supply chains and in turn, access to healthy and nutritious food has become even more difficult. A cadre of public health professors are lending insight into how the food shortage has specifically...

Undergrad Experience: Amelia Wood

March 2, 2021

Name: Amelia Wood Year: Third year Major: Biological Sciences (Human Biology emphasis); Natural Sciences Education minor Hometown: Stockton What is a memorable project that you worked on during your time at UC Merced? A memorable project I remember working on at UC Merced was through my job as a...