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Introducing the SNS Fall 2022 Outstanding Student Award Winners

December 15, 2022
Each semester the School of Natural Sciences recognizes exceptional graduating students by presenting them with an ‘Outstanding Student Award’. Students are nominated and selected by the faculty who oversee their major. Awardees are selected based on criteria including...

Michael Findlater Receives Grants to Study Ionic Liquids as ‘Green’ Additives

December 15, 2022
Professor Michael Findlater is co-PI on two grants from both the National Lubricant and Grease Institute (NLGI) and Taiho Kogyo Tribology Research Foundation (TTRF) to study new classes of ionic liquids as ‘green’ additives in next-generation lubricants and greases. Click here to...

Fall 2022 Commencement to Include First Graduate Division Ceremony

December 14, 2022
Downtown Merced will be covered in a sea of blue and gold over two days as hundreds of UC Merced Bobcats take part in fall commencement. Also, for the first time, graduate students will have their own ceremony to celebrate their achievements. The pomp and circumstance kick off with the inaugural...

Michael Findlater Awarded to Help with the Conversion of Greenhouse Gases into Valuable Resources

December 14, 2022
Professor Michael Findlater is a co-PI on two new multi-institutional center awards. The first is a $3.5M award from the University of California Lab Fees Program that will fund a multi-UC effort in concert with national labs aimed at capture and conversion of the greenhouse gas, carbon...

Researchers Look at Tree Reproduction and Effects of Climate Change Across North America

December 12, 2022
Life and Environmental Sciences Professor Emily Moran and collaborators at several other universities are set to conduct a continental-scale analysis of climate change effects on tree reproduction. In addition to monitoring seed production, thanks to a new grant from the National Science Foundation...

Odds for Early Death Rise After Severe Injury Linked to Alcohol

December 12, 2022

UC Merced Designated as Agricultural Experiment Station

November 29, 2022

Research Reveals an Easy Way Dairy Farmers Can Dramatically Reduce their Climate Impact

November 28, 2022
Adding even a small amount of biochar — a charcoal-like material produced by burning organic matter — to a dairy’s manure-composting process reduces methane emissions by 84%, a recent study by UC Merced researchers shows. The dairy industry is one of the main sources of methane in California,...

California's Ag Industry Loses $1.2 Billion in 2022

November 28, 2022

How Student-Loan Debt, or Not Having It, Shapes Lives

November 28, 2022

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