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New AI Institute Expands UC Merced’s Smart, Sustainable Agriculture Effort

July 29, 2021
With a new $20 million federal grant, UC Merced becomes part of a multi-institutional research collaborative to develop artificial intelligence — or AI — solutions to tackle some of agriculture’s biggest challenges related to water management, climate change and integration of new technology into...

Postdoc Earns Prestigious NIH Fellowship to Expand Prion Disease Research

July 20, 2021
Postdoctoral Scholar Mikahl Banwarth-Kuhn was awarded a $205,140 National Institutes of Health Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Individual National Research Service Award (NIH-F32) to be distributed over three years. The purpose of the fellowship is to enhance the research training of postdoctoral...

UC System Admits Its Largest, Most Diverse Class

July 19, 2021

How One Worker Protected Himself from COVID-19

July 19, 2021

Numbers Explain How and Why West Bakes, Burns and Dries Out

July 15, 2021

We're Creating the Conditions for a New Dust Bowl

July 15, 2021

Professor’s Drive to Help the Community Gets Underway for 13th Year

July 15, 2021
Merced is a community with a lot of poverty, made worse with the Great Recession in 2009 and the COVID-19 pandemic. To help people in need, Professor Patti LiWang has been leading a diaper and toilet paper drive for the past 12 years. “When we moved here, the recession hit. It was hard for us, a...

Those Not Vaccinated: No time or 'enormously selfish'?

July 14, 2021

Campus Wastewater Testing Offers COVID-19 Early Warning System, Establishes Protocols for the Future

July 8, 2021
COVID-19 upended life as we know it, especially among the science community. While some scientists rushed to develop a vaccine, others sought a better understanding of the virus, hoping to predict where the next outbreak might be in order to better contain it. At UC Merced, this included testing...

Opinion: Normal May Be a Long Way Off for Immunocompromised

July 6, 2021

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