Month: March 2022

Professor Nishiguchi was recently awarded a 5 year NIH U-RISE grant with Professor Rudy Ortiz to support undergraduate research training at UC Merced. Read More: https://www.nigms.nih.gov/training/RISE/Pages/U-RISE-T34.aspx

Doctoral student Daravuth Cheam was awarded the JGI/UC Merced Genomics Distinguished Graduate Internship for summer 2022.  He will be studying Virus Diversity and Host Interactions in Biofilms Through Global Metagenomics under the guidance of Clement Coclet and Simon Roux.   Read More: https://jgi.doe.gov/jgi-merced-genomics-distinguished-graduate-internship-program/

The UC Merced women’s basketball team beat Westcliff University 64-46 on Tuesday night to win their fourth California Pacific Conference Tournament Championship in the last eight years. The Bobcats (18-7), who entered this year’s tournament as the No. 1 seed and most recently won the title in 2017, now own the most postseason hardware out of any active team … Read more