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UC Merced Leads Innovative Effort to Secure Water for Agriculture and Ecosystems

October 6, 2021
UC Merced’s largest research grant in its 16-year history aims to improve agricultural and environmental water resilience. The new $10 million collaborative focuses on water banking, trading and improvements in data-driven management practices to arrive at a climate-resilient future in water-scarce...

Researchers Turn to Biochar in Fight Against Climate Change

September 30, 2021

Researchers Unraveling Mysteries of Electrosensory Gel in Sharks, Skates

September 28, 2021
Cartilaginous fishes such as sharks and skates have a sixth sense, but it’s not ESP — it’s electrosense. Such fishes use hundreds or thousands of specialized organs to sense prey and mates and to navigate the oceans. A cross-disciplinary group of researchers at UC Merced is making new discoveries...

Advocates Still Push to Make Company COVID Outbreaks Public

September 28, 2021

Kids Discovery Station in Merced Officially Open

September 26, 2021

Scholar Excels at Math and Engineering Despite Hardships

September 24, 2021

California Bill Could Alter Amazon Labor Practices

September 22, 2021

USDA-funded Internship Program Introduced New Bobcats to Agriculture Research

September 20, 2021
Shortly before the fall semester kicked off in person, 11 students were wrapping up their first summer on campus as part of the FACTS summer bridge program. FACTS stands for San Joaquin Valley Food and Agriculture Cyberinformatics Tools and Science. The six-week summer course, funded by the United...

UC Merced Ranked High on Nation's List of Best Universities

September 13, 2021

Chemistry Lab Receives NSF Funding to Study How Proteins Protect from Dehydration

August 26, 2021
Like many people this summer, Professor Shahar Sukenik has dehydration on his mind. But it’s not the soaring outside temperatures prompting this focus. Dehydration has been a theme of his lab’s work for the past year, from understanding how seeds know when to germinate to a new grant to further...

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