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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...

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...

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...

BIO 101 - Biochemistry I This course covers the fundamentals of biochemistry that include structures and functions of proteins, nucleic acids, membranes and carbohydrates; metabolism. Semester: SS2021, SS2022 BIO 182 - Bioinformatics This course covers bioinformatics, structural modeling and...

University of California Merced 2024 17- Amith, W. D., Chen, V. T., Dutagaci, B., Clustering of RNA Polymerase II C-Terminal Domain Models upon Phosphorylation, J. Phys. Chem. B , 2024. 16- Gallardo A., Dutagaci B., Binding of Small Molecule Inhibitors to RNA Polymerase-Spt5 Complex Impacts RNA and...

My teaching philosophy uses evidence-based pedagogy techniques to cultivate students’ sociological imagination. Evidence-based pedagogy techniques focus on creating an environment that optimizes students learning by providing routine and progressive build-up of knowledge. I use the following...