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States across the US possess a mix of policies that criminalize immigrants by regulating the “legality” or permissibility of their lives, putting day-to-day activities like working and driving under the surveillance and control of immigration enforcement, and those that are inclusive by expanding...

The Merg lab recognizes that research is a global endeavor that strives to improve the quality of life for all people. We welcome researchers from all backgrounds, with the understanding that each individual affords unique perspectives that (when collected together) can support a lab that is...

PI PhD Candidates Undergraduate Students Collaborators Dr. John Orlando, Atmospheric Chemistry Observation & Modeling, National Center for Atmospheric Research. Dr. Geoff Tyndall, Atmospheric Chemistry Observation & Modeling, National Center for Atmospheric Research. Dr. Qing Ye, Atmospheric...

Sarah Loebman is an assistant professor of physics at UC Merced and co-Chair of our CUWiP Local Organizing Committee. She's an astrophysicist whose primary research interests are in galaxy evolution, clustered star formation, and chemo-dynamics in the Local Universe. She uses high resolution galaxy...

I am a theoretical physicist working on biological and soft matter physics at the University of California, Merced since September, 2018. I am working on a variety of problems on biological active matter and mechanobiology, with a focus on how active mechanical forces lead to self-organization of...

Professor ShiPu Wang /wong/ joined UC Merced in 2006 and was the founding faculty of the Global Arts Studies Program (GASP), as well as the founding director and curator of the UCM Art Gallery. He became the first Coats Family Chair in the Arts at UC Merced in 2018, the same year he began a four...

Stefano Carpin is a Professor in the department of Computer Science and Engineering and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Programs in the School of Engineering. He received his “Laurea” (MSc) and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of Padova (Italy...

Faculty at UC Merced Sayantani Ghosh PI, Physics A condensed-matter physicist with a focus on hybrid “smart” devices for sensing and energy. She is part of the leadership of two research and educational centers at UC Merced: NASA-funded Merced nAnomaterials Center for Energy and Sensing (MACES) and...