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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

Daravuth Cheam Wins the SSE membership award  from the Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE). The goal of these awards is to support researchers from historically excluded groups in their membership and participation in SSE through a free two-year membership. Read more- http://www.evolutionsociety.org/society-awards-and-prizes/sse-membership-award.html

Congrats to Daravuth Cheam for being selected for a Broadening Participation award to attend the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology meetings in Phoenix, AZ”.