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NSF CAREER Awards for CCBM Faculty, Profs. Baxter and Subramaniam

February 19, 2019
Two CCBM faculty have been given NSF CAREER Awards. Congratulations to Profs. Ryan Baxter and Anand Bala Subramaniam! To learn more about NSF CAREER awards, please visit the National Science Foundation website:  "CAREER: The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is...

John Joseph Solo Offered Position as Verizon Software Engineer Intern!

February 12, 2019
Los Banos native, John Solo, participated in the 2018 CCBM Summer Internship Program (C-SIP) with co-mentors CCBM Co-director, Ajay Gopinathan, and CCBM Project Scientist, Dr. David Quint. John's research project focused on "Computational Tool Bridging Image Network Extraction...

CCBM Leads Hands-on Laboratory Activities for the AAUW Mother and Daughter Science Camp

January 19, 2019
On Saturday, January 19, 2019, CCBM Executive Director Carrie Kouadio, CREST Intern Asmaa Mohamed and Mercy Medical Center Pharmacist Dr. Lisa Tarbell led presentations and hands-on laboratory activities for the AAUW Mother and Daughter Science Camp held at UC Merced. Around 25 fourth and fifth...

CCBM Scholar, Dimitrius Khaladj, Headed to Langley Research Center for Summer Internship

January 16, 2019
CCBM Scholar from the Hirst Lab, Dimitrius Khaladj, will be joining NASA’s Langley Research Center this summer! Congratulations on your internship, Dimitrius! 

EBICS Livestream - Dr. Nigel Goldenfeld

December 5, 2018
Dr. Nigel Goldenfeld holds a Center for Advanced Study Professorship and a Swanlund Endowed Chair at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with appointments in the Department of Physics and the Institute for Genomic Biology. Emergence On November 26, 2018, Dr. Nigel Goldenfeld...

CREST Scholar, Brenda Yu, Receives ABRCMS Award

December 3, 2018
CREST Scholar and undergraduate student researcher, Brenda Yu, received the Best Oral Presentation Award in the Engineering, Physics, and Math category at the 2018 ABRCMS (Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students). Ms. Yu presented "Biophysical Modeling of Nanoparticles for...

CCBM Fellow, Lian Wong, successfully defends her thesis!

November 20, 2018
Congratulations to CCBM Fellow, Lian Wong, for successfully defending her thesis, "Mechanical Signaling and Patterning Stem Cell-derived Vascular Cells" at UC Merced on Tuesday, November 20, 2018! We are so proud of you!  

UC Merced Welcomes Stanford Biosciences for Grad School Edge with Samar Fahmy

November 9, 2018
Stanford Biosciences is comprised of seventeen PhD programs, fourteen of which have a shared application and funding model. Students pursuing their PhDs in the Biosciences at Stanford are typically fully funded, which includes tuition, medical and dental insurance, and a competitive stipend....

Open House Provides Inside Look into Campus’s Center for Cellular and Biomolecular Machines

November 5, 2018
Cutting-edge biomedical engineering research and science communication through artistic collaboration were among the highlights at UC Merced’s Center for Cellular and Biomolecular Machines (CCBM) open house last week. Tal Danino, a TED Fellow and Columbia University assistant professor of...

High School Students Share Research Experience with Community

October 31, 2018
The Science and Technology Enrichment Program at UC Merced provides high school students or recently graduated high school students with hands-on research experience and mentoring by CCBM-affiliated faculty and graduate student research assistants over the summer. These high school researchers were...

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