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Tawanda is a Zimbabwean-born dancer, artist-scholar who’s work revolves around scholarly research and writing alongside practice-based research through interdisciplinary creative collaboration. Current research and creative practice investigates transnational African identities, comparative African...

Developing self-assembly methods to arrange individual molecules and atoms precisely in space and time represents a powerful approach for creating new materials that can unlock future technology. This emerging concept of "growing materials" from the bottom-up provides the intellectual underpinning...

My work focuses on the interface between geometric measure theory and other areas of analysis. This includes connections to quasiconformal maps and complex dynamics, potential theory and fractal sets, and computational linear algebra. Detailed summaries of my past and ongoing work are in my research...

Former Graduate Students Abigail Bolter earned her PhD in Psychology from UC Merced in 2023. She graduated from UC Santa Cruz with a B.A. in Psychology, where she worked in Dr. Audun Dahl’s lab studying academic dishonesty. After that, she pursued an M.A. in psychological sciences from UC Merced...

Understanding Parental Involvement Study In collaboration with Dr. Mary Lewis at Oakland University and Dr. Wendy Rote at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg, we are examining how parenting shapes adolescents' and young adults' social and emotional development using online and in-person...

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=e5NyT6IAAAAJ&hl=en §: Corresponding Author; G: Graduate student advisee; U: Undergraduate student advisee [60] Moo, Z. G, Hao, P. G, DeMarsh, K. G, and Zhang, X. §, Efficient HO x radical production from isoprene nighttime chemistry, ACS...

Preprints J. Hu, S. Q. Van Fleet, A. T. S. Wan, Fully discrete entropy-dissipative and conservative particle methods for the aggregation-diffusion and Landau equations, 22 pages, arXiv:2407.00533 G. McGregor and A. T. S. Wan, Conservative Hamiltonian Monte Carlo, 24 pages, arXiv:2206.06901 Journal...

My current research broadly focuses on immigration policy and its consequences. I am particularly interested on how state and local level immigration policy is affecting the employment, education, fertility and human rights of undocumented immigrants, as well as on the effect of immigration policy...

Merced City News/Upcoming Events: Cultiva Central Valley's Annual Zombie Bike Ride: October 26, 2024 Fresno City News/ Upcoming Events: HOPe Lab News: We got published in the Journal of Participatory Research Methods! We are so excited to share that our work has been published in the Journal of...