UC Merced

Gift Boosts Solar Research Effort

UC Merced has received a $2 million gift from the California Community Foundation to support the University’s Nonimaging Optics Lab, a facility developing new technologies that are improving the potential for solar resources to help meet increasing energy needs.

"Our Nonimaging Optics Lab has already gained worldwide recognition as a leader in this field, and this funding will enable even more rapid innovation," said Dean Jeff Wright of the School of Engineering.

Nonimaging optics is concerned with collecting, concentrating, transporting and distributing light energy in applications such as solar energy, signal detection, illumination optics, and measurement and testing.

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