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Patty Guerra

State Delivers $3 Million for Ag Technology Center at UC Merced

UC Merced’s smart farm is getting a smart barn.

The university will receive $3 million from the state of California, part of $80 million in funding to support 11 projects across California announced Friday by Gov. Gavin Newsom and the California Jobs First Council.

The money will go to construct an agricultural technology barn at the site of UC Merced’s Agriculture Experimentation Station, known as the Smart Farm. The barn facility will be used for research and development, according to the governor’s office.

Black Engineering Society Earns Regional Chapter of the Year

The National Society of Black Engineers, established at UC Merced in 2007, is one of the campus’s oldest and most active student organizations. It provides support, guidance and advocacy for its members through their college journeys and beyond.

All that hard work has been recognized by the national NSBE organization, which recently awarded UC Merced its Region VI Chapter of the Year award during its convention in Chicago.

Researchers Apply Materials Science Equation to Broader Real-World Issues

At first glance, a mathematical model that describes how quickly materials transform from one phase to another might seem to have few other practical applications.

But what if this kind of model could be adapted to predict the spread of the next pandemic?

Two UC Merced researchers have been studying the Johnson-Mehl-Avrami-Kolmogorov (JMAK) equation, which helps scientists describe and predict how materials change over time, such as when crystals grow from a liquid, or when a new solid phase with a different composition emerges in an existing solid.

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