Now in its second year, UC Merced's student-run Earth Week celebration is growing and evolving.
Organized by junior Diana Franklin — the Associated Students of UC Merced's Commissioner of Sustainability — the five-day fete will begin with a kickoff event on April 18 and culminate on Earth Day, April 22.
The University of California, Merced, will receive $600,000 in technical assistance from the U.S. Department of Energy as part of the Commercial Building Partnerships program, which is designed to accelerate the deployment of cost-effective, energy-saving measures in commercial buildings across the country.
UC Merced is entering a significant new phase of construction, the likes of which the campus has not seen since before it opened in 2005.
Hundreds of UC Merced students are about to learn just how far they can stretch a drop of water.
