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Research into Hidden Chemistry Shaping Future Air Quality Earns Zhang an NSF Award

September 8, 2025

Professor Xuan Zhang
As nations cut emissions that once fueled urban smog, scientists are discovering unexpected chemistry taking place in the atmosphere. UC Merced Professor Xuan Zhang is leading a project to uncover how these chemical shifts could affect the air we breathe and the climate. The project is supported...

UC Merced and Fresno Unified Leverage Resources to Increase Rate of Valley Grads Going to College

The Center for Educational Partnerships (CEP) at the University of California, Merced, has teamed up with the Fresno Unified School District to support an important mission — helping more high school...

UC Merced Scientist Awarded Fulbright Fellowship

Andrea Joyce, an assistant research scientist with the Sierra Nevada Research Institute (SNRI) at the University of California, Merced, was recently awarded a Fulbright fellowship to study beneficial...

Former State Supreme Court Justice to Receive SpendlovePrize

Cruz Reynoso, who has spent his life fighting for immigrants' rights, will be the 2011 recipient of UC Merced's Alice and Clifford Spendlove Prize in Social Justice, Diplomacy and Tolerance Quick...

Physicist Wins Prestigious National Science FoundationAward

UC Merced physicist Sayantani Ghosh has been given a CAREER Award to further her research into the dynamics of 'exotic' magnets Quick Facts Physics Professor Sayantani Ghosh has been awarded the...

Cognitive Scientist Earns Sigma Xi's Young Investigator Award

University of California, Merced, cognitive science Professor Teenie Matlock has been given Sigma Xi’s 2011 Young Investigator Award for excellence in research. Sigma Xi is an international research...

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