UC Merced’s branch of the Blum Center for Developing Economies rebooted this spring with a faculty-led effort to spend two years working on becoming the hub for all food-security-related research and outreach on and off campus.
Part of that effort includes seed grants for UC Merced researchers. The Blum Center just announced this year’s winners:
More than 120,000 young people ages 10 to 18 attempt suicide each year, and about 4,500 of those attempts are fatal. Suicide is the third leading cause of death among children ages 10-14 and the second among people 15 to 34 years old.
UC Merced Professor Jeffrey Gilger is an integral part of a new intercampus effort to understand and reduce education-related risks in California’s young English-language learners.
Often, when people talk about or study refugees, the focus is on policy, rescue operations or terrorism.
UC Merced added a powerful new tool to the campus’s 
Chris Fradkin, professor e ex-aluno da Universidade da Califórnia em Merced, está indo para o Brasil em busca de "ciência perdida."
Chris Fradkin, a UC Merced lecturer and alumnus, is heading to Brazil in search of “lost science.”
More than 120,000 young people ages 10 to 18 attempt suicide each year, and about 4,500 of those attempts are fatal. Suicide is the third leading cause of death among children ages 10-14 and the second among people 15 to 34 years old.
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One of California’s greatest energy challenges is finding innovative ways to lower natural gas consumption to help reduce 
Researchers at UC Merced are playing key roles in the new UC Valley Fever Research Initiative, studying