Energy and Environment
November 25, 2013
The 5-year-old project, which has already provided unprecedented information for water managers, will continue into 2018 and help rural and urban economies. Research in the Sierra Nevada central to addressing...
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November 20, 2013
UC Merced is doubling down on its solar commitment.
The campus is looking at installing rooftop solar systems on up to 11 main campus buildings and the chancellor’s residence, moving the campus closer to meeting its...
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November 12, 2013
Graduate student Ryan Lucas is living a mountain-lover’s dream through his research.
As part of engineering Professor Martha Conklin’s meadows-hydrology lab, he gets to spend a lot of time in the Sierra Nevada in...
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October 7, 2013
UC Merced’s first Ph.D. graduate is back on campus. But this time, Ricardo Cisneros isn’t enrolled as a student; he’s a professor instead.
Cisneros, who earned his doctorate in Environmental Systems from the School of...
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September 11, 2013
Professor Roland Winston is a leader in solar research.Professor Roland Winston’s work has helped take UC Merced and UC Solar global – this time it’s to Singapore.
The small city-nation is experiencing a building boom...
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September 3, 2013
Professor Gerardo Diaz and student Azucena Robles hold a model of the minichannel solar collector they've developed.Adapting technology that has become the standard in the automotive, aerospace and air-conditioning...
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August 30, 2013
As the Rim Fire continues to burn in and around Yosemite National Park, a former UC Merced student’s work related to the fire burned up the Internet this week.
Paul Doherty, the first Yosemite park ranger to complete a...
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August 28, 2013
Columbian mammoths grew to be up to 13 feet tall and weigh 10 tons, according to the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. They roamed North America between 100,000 and 13,000 years ago.The youngest University of...
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August 26, 2013
Half Dome is home to 530 students and offers new features like a 24-hour refreshment vending station, passenger drop off/loading zone and enclosed bike storage. Although the UC Merced campus is entering its ninth...
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August 22, 2013
Mike Oliveira, who earned his bachelor’s degree in bioengineering at UC Merced, is attending graduate school in UC Riverside's bioengineering program.It has been four years since Mike Oliveira earned his bachelor’s...
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August 21, 2013
UC Merced's Social Sciences and Management Building was certified LEED platinum by the U.S. Green Building Council. UC Merced announces the U.S. Green Building Council has awarded platinum LEED certification...
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August 12, 2013
41 UC Merced undergraduates participate in sponsored research programs.
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August 1, 2013
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July 17, 2013
Just because it’s summertime doesn’t mean research at UC Merced comes to a halt.
Just the opposite.
This summer, professors and students at all levels are conducting a variety of research projects on campus, off campus...
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July 15, 2013
In a move that will save the campus money, improve campus safety and help save the environment, Professor Jason Hein set up a new solvent purification system.
This project is similar to his previous efforts to reduce...
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July 11, 2013
The Office of Admissions and Outreach has launched a virtual tour for prospective students and others who want to experience UC Merced's dynamic campus remotely.The best way to explore what UC Merced has to offer is to...
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June 19, 2013
Professor Alberto Cerpa was awarded a five-year CAREER award to support his research.A five-year CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation is helping Professor Alberto Cerpa develop the next big breakthrough in...
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June 17, 2013
Andrew Zumkehr has mapped every square foot of abandoned farmland in the United States.Working to map every square inch, UC Merced master’s student Andrew Zumkehr found there are 111 million acres of abandoned farmland...
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June 5, 2013
Using some of the tiniest fossils in the world to help clarify how climate change is modeled has earned Professor Jessica Blois a big honor – publication in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
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April 29, 2013
From the microbes in the guts of living things to the idea of life elsewhere in the universe, Professor Marilyn Fogel is pondering some of life’s deepest questions.
When and how did life originate on Earth? What does...
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