Energy and Environment
April 13, 2012
As the new director of UC Merced’s Yosemite Field Station, Becca Fenwick will combine her love of the outdoors and of the educational opportunities such settings can offer.
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April 10, 2012
Research Week at UC Merced highlighted by student research poster competition, plus enlightening lectures and symposia featuring a number of distinguished researchers. From the campus’ own undergraduate and...
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April 6, 2012
Graduate student Andrea Rodarte describes some of the tools she uses in her physics research. When Andrea Rodarte began studying physics, she first wanted to look to the stars for answers. Instead, she's finding them...
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April 4, 2012
Fulbright's Franco-American Commission will fund UC Merced Professor Monica Medina’s research in France on the codependency of marine algae and tropical coral reefs. Mónica Medina, a professor in the...
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April 3, 2012
Executive Leadership Seminar aims to educate the world’s park and protected area leaders, with stops in the Bay Area, at UC Merced and at Yosemite National Park. More than two dozen executives from around the...
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February 28, 2012
Professor Lara Kueppers is studying how trees in the mountains of Colorado will adapt to climate change.
Climate change is leading to higher...
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February 22, 2012
Professor Boaz IlanUC Merced applied math Professor Boaz Ilan is a major contributor to a national research team exploring a novel way to use fractal geometry to improve the production of electricity in solar...
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February 3, 2012
Four projects will increase campus' physical space by 25 percent, adding nearly 270,000 gross square feet. Planned Science and Engineering Building 2 (rendering)UC Merced is entering a significant new phase...
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January 19, 2012
A team of UC Merced professors and students discovered that changing the shape of a solar concentrator significantly increases its efficiency, bringing its use closer to reality. A team of researchers at the...
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January 6, 2012
Graduate student Peter Kirchner conducts mountain hydrology research with Professor Roger Bales in the Sierra Nevada Research Institute.Peter Kirchner may have been born in California’s San Fernando Valley, but...
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December 15, 2011
UC Merced researchers show burning of sugarcane fields prior to harvest can create more pollution than previously thought, detracting from benefits of the alternative fuel source. The burning of sugarcane fields...
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December 14, 2011
From improving the performance and efficiency of solar cells to using solar technology to speed up fruit drying, a wide array of topics were covered by distinguished scientists at the UC Solar Research Symposium at UC...
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November 30, 2011
Less water used by trees would result in more runoff, which could benefit farmers and water managers statewide; Project will examine impacts on forest health and other ecosystem services. Runoff from the Sierra...
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October 6, 2011
A group of students working with Professor Benoit Dayrat learned first-hand this summer about the field research opportunities available to...
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October 3, 2011
National Science Foundation to fund wireless sensor networks in the American River Basin, allowing real-time measurement of snowpack and prediction of critical water cycles. Researchers with the Sierra Nevada...
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September 30, 2011
UC Merced students in the nine Valley Terrace residence halls battle over who can conserve the most amount of water during the monthlong Water Battle 2011.Hundreds of UC Merced students are about to learn just how far...
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September 29, 2011
UC Merced research team demonstrates non-tracking solar concentrator technology that uses heat from the sun to power air conditioning unit. Using solar thermal energy to power an air conditioning unit can be...
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September 6, 2011
UC Merced graduate student Brandi McKuin recently returned from a trip to India, where she spent time studying the energy needs of rural villages...
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August 26, 2011
UC Merced received its first visit by a U.S. senator Wednesday, as Sen. Barbara Boxer met with Chancellor Dorothy Leland, learned about the work of...
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August 10, 2011
UC Merced Professor Roger Bales is developing a system of wireless sensors to measure various factors related to the Sierra Nevada snowpack.In a remarkable outdoor laboratory in the Sierra, a team of researchers led by...
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