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Female Researchers Receive Awards for Their Exemplary Research, Achievements
March 14, 2023
During Women’s History Month, we celebrate and reflect upon the achievements of women at UC Merced and beyond. 2023 is already shaping up to be a stellar year for female faculty members on campus. In just the first couple of months, Public... Read More
Research Paper Explores how the Type of Renewable Energy Affects the Needs for Energy Storage
March 13, 2023
As more renewable energy projects take hold in California, there is more need for effective ways to store that energy. A paper published by a UC Merced research team examines how the need for storage can vary for different combinations of... Read More
Student Researchers Working with National Lab on Mercury Remediation
March 8, 2023
At UC Merced, mercury is a regional challenge that student and faculty researchers have been tackling for several years. Mercury was used to extract gold during the Gold Rush in California, and the element was also mined at the New Almaden... Read More
Women Make History at UC Merced
March 8, 2023
Innumerable changes have come to UC Merced since ground was broken for the campus in 2002. Some of the women who helped found the campus and remain employed by UC Merced, reflected recently on the changes in the university and themselves... Read More
Ryals’ Teaching, Research and Service Earns Her Presidential Chair in Climate Change
March 6, 2023
Professor Rebecca Ryals has made campus history by being named UC Merced’s inaugural Presidential Chair in Climate Change. The appointment was recommended by her peers and Dean Betsy Dumont from the School of Natural Sciences in... Read More
Research Week Highlights Solutions to Urgent Environmental Issues
March 2, 2023
It's time for the campus and the community to celebrate UC Merced’s high-level research during Research Week, March 6 through 10. The annual research showcase, hosted by the Office of Research and Economic Development, kicks off with a... Read More
Award-winning Films Connecting ‘Unseen’ Communities Around the World
March 1, 2023
Global Arts Studies Professor Yehuda Sharim ’s film “El Ojo Comienza en la Mano,” a documentary about a Central Valley farm worker who never gave up his love of painting, has been garnering awards and nominations around the world since... Read More
Record Number of Students Apply to UC Merced
February 27, 2023
UC Merced once again broke a record for the number of first-year applications the university received, continuing to show impressive growth even as the national trend shows a decline in the number of students enrolling in higher education... Read More
Engaging the Black Community Inside, Outside UC Merced
February 21, 2023
Professor Maria Martin has a lot going on. On Feb. 18, she was the grand marshal and a speaker at a program and march honoring the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in downtown Merced. This weekend, she and the university will host a two-day... Read More
Alumnus Shares His UC Merced Experiences to Guide Youth to College
February 16, 2023
While growing up in the Sacramento area, Donald Carter ('21) said he didn't see many people who looked like him pursuing higher education. As the oldest of four boys in a single-parent household, he spent most of his time setting examples... Read More
CIS Ph.D. Student Gains Confidence at NIH Internship
February 14, 2023
Cognitive and Information Sciences (CIS) Ph.D. student Ben Nguyen spent last summer working as a data analyst at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Nguyen was selected for the competitive fellowship through the nonprofit organization... Read More
Alumna Credits UC Merced for Inspiring Her Interest in Cancer Research
February 13, 2023
After transferring from a Sacramento community college to UC Merced in 2007, Maxine Umeh-Garcia was unsure of her future career. She admits she hadn’t looked at the majors the newest UC offered before applying and imagined she’d teach high... Read More
Berhe Chosen for National Academy Membership in Recognition of Her Soil Research
February 9, 2023
Soil biogeochemistry Professor Asmeret Asefaw Berhe — who is on leave from UC Merced while she serves as federal director of the Office of Science for the Department of Energy — has been elected a member of the National Academy of... Read More
Wilson Selected as a 2023 American Astronomical Society Fellow
February 8, 2023
Vice Chancellor for Research, Innovation and Economic Development Gillian Wilson has been named a 2023 American Astronomical Society (AAS) Fellow — the preeminent organization of professional astronomers in North America. “It is an honor... Read More
Grant Will Fund Development of New, Technically Advanced Agriculture Workforce
February 8, 2023
  As agriculture, California's most important industry, becomes increasingly technical, the workforce needed to sustain it will have to have different skills than those of a generation ago. A UC Merced researcher has been awarded a grant... Read More
Alumni Success Celebrated at Inaugural Math Event
February 7, 2023
The Department of Applied Mathematics, the Applied Mathematics Graduate Program and the student chapter of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) celebrated their many successful alumni recently by holding their... Read More
Matlock Receives International Cognitive Science Prize
February 6, 2023
Teenie Matlock, Cognitive and Information Sciences professor and the McClatchy Chair in Communications, has been awarded the fourth Jeffrey L. Elman Prize for Scientific Achievement and Community Building — one of the highest honors in the... Read More
Community and Labor Center's New Study Highlights Farmworkers' Health Challenges
February 3, 2023
A new landmark study by the UC Merced Community and Labor Center shows farmworkers across California are facing serious health challenges on a daily basis. The goal of the Farmworker Health Study was to examine agricultural worker health... Read More
Zatz Named 2022 AAAS Fellow
February 2, 2023
Special Assistant to the Chancellor and sociology Professor Marjorie Zatz has been elected to the 2022 class of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), adding to the list of previous UC Merced recipients. She is the... Read More
Award Supports Study of Fish Embryos to Understand Process that Affects Birth Defects
February 1, 2023
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has given Professor Stephanie Woo the CAREER award to help her delve into congenital birth defects by looking at the embryonic cells of zebrafish. Woo is the 32nd researcher from UC Merced to earn a... Read More