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Adjunct Professor Among Department of Energy Award Winners

June 23, 2022
Jennifer Pett-Ridge, an adjunct professor with the Department of Life and Environmental Sciences and a researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, has been honored by the Department of Energy for her “pioneering work in quantitative microbial ecology and leadership in developing and...

Academic Senate Recognizes Outstanding Faculty

June 22, 2022
Each year, faculty members recognize their colleagues in the Academic Senate for outstanding teaching, research and mentorship, impacts on their fields, and their dedication to diversity and scholarly public service. For the 2021-22 academic year, 18 faculty members are being honored. In...

Academic Senate Recgnizes Outstanding Faculty

June 22, 2022
Each year, faculty members recognize their colleagues in the Academic Senate for outstanding teaching, research and mentorship, impacts on their fields, and their dedication to diversity and scholarly public service. For the 2021-22 academic year, 18 faculty members are being honored. In...

Grad Student Awarded Prestigious Department of Energy Fellowship

June 17, 2022
Environmental Systems Ph.D. student Leila Wahab is one of 80 graduate students to receive the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) highly competitive Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) fellowship. The goal of SCGSR is to prepare graduate students for science, technology, engineering,...

Ryan’s story: A hard-charging California firefighter loses his last battle to suicide

June 13, 2022

In Retiring, Winston Looks Forward to His Busy, Bright Future

June 13, 2022
Distinguished Professor Roland Winston was among the first eight faculty members at UC Merced in 2003, two years before the campus opened. When he retires July 1, at age 86, he will be the first of those eight to leave — but his work on solar energy applications will continue. It's not hyperbolic...

Air quality worsens as drought forces California growers to burn abandoned crops

June 11, 2022

Air quality worsens as drought forces California growers to burn abandoned crops

June 11, 2022

Local Athlete, Student Leader Chooses UC Merced

June 10, 2022
UC Merced is highlighting incoming first-year students for fall 2022 — a dynamic, diverse and accomplished cohort of new Bobcats. Ariana Valera was born and raised in Merced. The fact that the incoming biological sciences major lives within two miles of UC Merced is just one reason she cited for...

DOD Fellowship Helps Grad Student Advance Machine Learning Research

June 9, 2022
Ph.D. student Sarah Downs was awarded the prestigious Department of Defense (DOD) Science, Mathematics and Research for Transformation (SMART) scholarship. The Department of Defense is committed to developing a highly skilled STEM workforce and is the largest employer of federal scientists and...

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