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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...

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...

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

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

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,...

UC Merced Gains Prestigious UC Agricultural Experiment Station Designation

November 16, 2022
UCs Merced and Santa Cruz became the newest campuses in the system to be named an agricultural experiment stations (AES), UC President Michael Drake announced at today’s Regents’ meeting. They are the first campuses in more than 50 years to earn the designation. “With the AES designation, Santa...

Nishiguchi Joins California Academy of Sciences, Recognized for Contributions to Microbiology

November 9, 2022
Molecular and Cellular Biology Professor Michele “Nish” Nishiguchi has been inducted as a Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences and was recently named president-elect for the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB). She is one of 11 distinguished scientists inducted at the...

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