Undergraduates Victoria Arias and Cydney Caradonna entered UC Merced through different doors.
Arias was a freshman impressed with the campus and community. Caradonna was a transfer student and athlete sold on UC Merced’s championship women’s basketball team.
Asmaa Mohamed’s enthusiasm for research is contagious. Her passion not only radiates through her words, but it is also evident in the research career she has built in her undergraduate years at UC Merced.
Mohamed was born in Egypt. In 2013, her father accepted a position as a senior medical physicist in the Merced Cancer Center, prompting her family to move to Merced. About four months before immigrating, she began to learn common words to prepare for full English immersion.
The Center for Cellular and Biomolecular Machines (CCBM) was recently highlighted in a video at the Biophysical Society (BPS) Annual Meeting in Baltimore. The conference brings together more than 6,000 attendees from all over the world.
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 biomedical engineering, delivered the keynote lecture titled "Synthetic Biology: From Programming Bacteria Behaviors to Cancer Therapies" for 100 attendees, including UC Merced students, faculty, staff and students from Patterson High School.
