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More Than 1,300 Bobcats Will Cross the Stage During UC Merced Commencement Weekend

May 7, 2024
More than 1,300 students plan to participate in UC Merced's Spring 2024 Commencement, celebrated with three distinct ceremonies on the campus's Recreation Field. The first ceremony honors Graduate Division students and will begin at 6 p.m. Friday, May 10. There will be 27 master's candidates...

USDA UC Merced FARMERS Program Teams Up with Local FFA

May 6, 2024
In an exciting initiative to foster community collaboration and academic mentorship, the USDA UC Merced's FARMERS Facilitating Agriculture-Related Mentoring for Emerging Research Scholars Program partnered with El Capitan High School's Future Farmers of America chapter. This academic year, FARMERS...

Campus Grad Slam Winner Examines ‘Gut Viruses: Friends or Foes?’

April 29, 2024
Earlier this month, Ambarish Varadan competed in UC Merced’s Grad Slam finals and seized the title of Campus Champion. This was the second time the Quantitative and Systems Biology (QSB) Ph.D. candidate from Fremont vied for the top prize. Last year, he placed second among the top 10 contenders. UC...

Researchers Find Unexpected Cellular Residence for Protein Vital in Neurodevelopment

April 25, 2024
In Professor Xuecai Ge ’s lab, where UC Merced researchers study how cells talk to each other to develop and differentiate, a recent surprise discovery is lending insight as to how erroneous cell signals lead to disease and birth defects. Ge and her colleagues zeroed in on a slice of the...

New Summer Research Opportunities for Undergraduates from Across U.S.

April 23, 2024
The National Science Foundation awarded a team, led by principal investigators Professor Ajay Gopinathan and Carrie Kouadio, funding to establish a summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program at UC Merced. This new program seeks to increase the diversity of the science,...

LA TIMES: Climate change supercharged a heat dome, intensifying 2021 fire season, study finds

April 22, 2024

Thousands Enjoy a Big ‘Welcome’ at Bobcat Day

April 22, 2024
Fernando Malagon and his mom stood at the head of a line for guided tours of the university he plans to attend this fall. The informational stroll around UC Merced would be more for her than for him; he visited the campus five years ago on a seventh-grade field trip from Modesto. Of course, the...

NATURE: What toilets can reveal about COVID, cancer and other health threats

April 19, 2024

NEWSWEEK: The West Has a New Way To Save Water

April 16, 2024

Students, Alums Awarded Prestigious NSF Graduate Fellowship

April 12, 2024
Three UC Merced graduate students and two undergraduate alumni were recently offered fellowships from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP). UC Merced’s 2024 NSF GRFP recipients are: Anthony Alfaro, who graduated with a bachelor’s degree in chemistry...

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