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UC Merced’s Shines In Annual Sustainability Report

January 20, 2023
In the 2022 Sustainable Campus Index, UC Merced placed Top 10 in several categories including a tie for the No.1 spot in research. The annual report published by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) recognizes top-performing colleges and universities...

A Central Valley Community Lost Its Only Hospital

January 20, 2023

Strubbe Awarded $1.3 Million Grant to Help Further the Pursuit of Sustainable Energies

January 9, 2023
School of Natural Sciences faculty member, David Strubbe, has been awarded a $1.3 million grant from the University of California Multicampus Research Programs and Initiatives (MRPI) to increase understanding of the beginning stages of controlled fusion that will further benefit the pursuit of...

UC Awards $16.4 Million in Grants to Address Climate, Energy and Health

January 9, 2023
For the first time, UC Merced faculty members from each of the campus’s three schools have been chosen as principal investigators on some of the 21 exciting new projects that are being funded through UC’s Multicampus Research Programs and Initiatives (MRPI). In addition, UC Merced researchers are...

Week of Storms Tests California’s Approach to Taming Nature

January 5, 2023

Three Generations of Women Say Working at UC Merced is Undoubtedly 'a Family Affair'

December 27, 2022

Graduate Summer Bridge Program Recognized as a ‘Program to Watch’

December 22, 2022
Graduate Division’s Competitive Edge Summer Bridge program for incoming Ph.D. students was identified as a Program to Watch by Excelencia in Education, a national effort to identify evidence-based programs that improve Latino student success in higher education. “We are thrilled to receive this...

UC Merced Provides Unique Opportunities for Undergrad Research

December 21, 2022
Christina Georges didn't choose UC Merced because of the opportunities she would have to conduct research as an undergraduate. "When doing my own research on UC Merced in high school, I learned that UC Merced was a younger university," said the fourth-year biological sciences major from La Mirada...

'Courage' and 'Idealism' Take Center Stage at Fall 2022 Commencement

December 21, 2022
Neither chilly temperatures nor a thick blanket of dense fog could dampen the smiles and spirits of hundreds of Bobcats as they participated in UC Merced's Fall 2022 Commencement. Nearly 450 graduates took part in three separate ceremonies at the Art Kamangar Center at the Merced Theatre. "The...

UC Merced-led Research Predicts How Air Cleans Itself

December 19, 2022
Although climate change is still a very real challenge, the past decades of efforts to reduce the effects of human activities on the atmosphere have been potent enough to have thrown off the models scientists use to understand and forecast the atmosphere’s chemical composition and cleansing...

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