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Donald Trump and California: A battle of wildfires and wills

July 30, 2020

RadioBio Receives UC President’s Award for Outstanding Student Leadership

July 30, 2020
University of California President Janet Napolitano has selected UC Merced student organization RadioBio as one of two recipients for the 2020 President’s Award for Outstanding Student Leadership. RadioBio, a science podcast that discusses topics ranging from molecules to ecosystems, was created in...

Summer Research Program Continues to Serve Students Remotely

July 29, 2020
While the COVID-19 pandemic has kept most students and faculty mentors off campus, UC Merced’s commitment to providing research experiences to undergraduate students has not wavered. Over the past 14 years, the Summer Undergraduate Research Institute (SURI) has become an integral part of the...

SNRI Sees a Leadership Transition

July 29, 2020
Change is everywhere at UC Merced this year, from hiring a new chancellor to the completion of a major campus expansion. The Sierra Nevada Research Institute (SNRI), an early hallmark of research excellence at UC Merced, is also making a change: After a 13-year tenure, Faculty Director Professor...

Helping California's Hard-Hit Central Valley

July 28, 2020

$3.5 Million Hellman Endowment Expands Future of Research at UC Merced

July 26, 2020
Since 2011, the Hellman Fellows Fund has provided close to 60 UC Merced assistant professors with much-needed research support in the form of seed funding. The prestigious Hellman Fellowship has launched countless careers at UC Merced and across the UC system. Now, thanks to a generous new $3.5...

How Financial Shock Takes a Toll on the U.S Census | KQED

July 24, 2020

Cross-Training for Scholarly Writers

July 24, 2020

New Review Shows Lack of Equal Access for COVID Testing

July 22, 2020

New Project Aims to Advance Understanding of Immune Cells as they Develop

July 20, 2020
Maybe now more than ever, scientists need to understand the immune system. A new National Institutes of Health grant is funding a cross-disciplinary collaboration between bioengineering Professor Joel Spencer and immunology Professor Jennifer Manilay that will allow them to watch as immune-...

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