Environmental Research

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Greening the Campus Earns Gold in Sustainability Ratings

The UC Merced campus is getting greener and earning gold as it does — gold ratings, that is.

UC Merced Student a Winner at Clinton Event

Student Haithi Dang and former President Bill Clinton at the CGI U event.Besides attending Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U) with 1,200 other college students from arou

Eat, Hydrate and Learn at This Year’s Earth Day Event

Most people probably don’t think about food when considering how to celebrate Earth Day.

Study Shows How Plants Could Adapt to Changing Climate

Professor Jason SextonIf you want to understand how plant populations will respond as the climate changes, just examine the plants in different locations.

Wells Fargo Gift Increases Focus on Critical Regional Projects

An increased gift from longtime campus partner Wells Fargo is allowing more engineering students at the University of California, Merced, to focus on solutions to problems related to water, energy and food.

Wells Fargo awarded its Clean Technology and Innovation Grant to the UC Merced School of Engineering’s senior Innovation Design Clinic (IDC). The $125,000 gift — $25,000 more than last year — supports IDC’s efforts to develop, design and create engineering solutions addressing the critical water, energy, food (WEF) nexus.

Students Part of ‘Symbiotic’ Effort to Meld Art With Science

Sabah Ul-Hasan (center) works with Manny Collazo IV (right) on the first episode of BIOTA.Graduate student Sabah Ul-Hasan translated her love of science into four separate college degrees.

Study: Fishing Industry a Bigger Polluter than Previously Known

Graduate student Brandi McKuin's latest work indicates fish isn't the sustainable food source once believed.Many studies have shown that raising cattle and pigs for food is hard on the environment, and fish ha

New Study Shows Early Human Impacts on Biodiversity

Professor Marilyn Fogel works with a student in her recently opened stable isotope lab.Even without all the industrial and technological growth that has accelerated c

Three Students Chosen for Clinton Global Initiative University

Adriana GomezThree of UC Merced’s student sustainability stars will share ideas about the future and network with international students and dignitaries at the upcoming session of Clinton Global Initiat