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UC Merced will Launch a Neuroscience Major in Fall 2025

June 3, 2024
The UC Merced senate, Provost and Chancellor have approved a Neuroscience Major, to be launched in the Fall of 2025. Students enrolled in the Neuroscience Major will have the option of choosing between a bachelor of Arts or a Bachelor of Science. The Bachelor of Arts will have less emphasis on...

Dr. Rachel Ryskin wins Career Award from NSF

April 11, 2024
Dr Rachel Ryskin in Cognitive Science wins a career award from the National Science Foundation for her proposal entitled "Tracking correlation or inferring causation: How human language processing adapts to the environment" See link to award announcement at https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch...

Dr. Xuecai (Susan) Ge is interviewed by Biomedical Beat - An NIH Blog Investigating the Primary Cilium: Q&A With Xuecai

March 28, 2024
In this interview, "Dr. Ge shared how her childhood experience inspired her to study science and what makes the primary cilium fascinating."

Backer-Shahin Lab article distinction

September 1, 2023
The American Physiological Society has selected a recently published article from the Backer-Shahin Lab as the article demonstrating distinction in scholarship in the Journal of Neurophysiology for the month of September (https://journals.physiology.org/apsselect). The article's title is "...
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Dr. Xuecai (Susan) Ge wins NSF career award

June 20, 2023
Dr. Xuecai (Susan) Ge wins NSF career award (Title: Mechanistic studies of cilium proteins in cell signaling) and an NIH R01 (Title: Regulation of the Hedgehog Pathway by new cilium proteins in development and disease).
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Dr. Ahmed Arif receives CAREER award from the National Science Foundation

June 12, 2023
Professor Ahmed Sabbir Arif has received a CAREER award for his research into non-acoustic, image-based speech input on mobile devices. He is the 35th researcher from UC Merced to earn a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Read full article
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Dr Rachel Ryskin wins the Distinguished Early Career Research Award

June 7, 2023
  The Senate Award for Distinguished Early Career Research (for non-tenured faculty) is intended to encourage and recognize individuals for research and/or other creative activities that have had a major impact on the field, either through a sustained record of contributions or through a...

Dr Wolf is awarded an NIH grant

June 6, 2023
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Dr Smaldino organizes workshop at Santa Fe Institute

June 2, 2023
  The workshop explores information architectures as sociotechnical competitions Article on santafe.edu Image credit: Piotr Siedlecki/publicdomainpictures.net)
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Dr Paul Smaldino publishes book: Modeling Social Behavior

May 22, 2023
  Dr Paul Smaldino publishes book Modeling Social Behavior: Mathematical and Agent-Based Models of Social Dynamics and Cultural Evolution Available at Princeton University Press