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Students Awarded Prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
June 4, 2025
Two UC Merced graduate students and an alum from the School of Natural Sciences were recently awarded fellowships from the highly competitive National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program. This year, NSF awarded 1,000... Read More
Creative Solutions Win at Innovation Event
June 3, 2025
Imagine you're a farmer who uses a drip irrigation system on your crops. On watering day, you open the valve from the canal, then go to your orchard, maybe a few acres away, and wait. Once enough water arrives, you walk back and shut the... Read More
Study Indicates Human-caused Dust Events are Linked to Fallow Farmland
June 2, 2025
An average of more than 1 million acres of idled farmland a year is a significant contributor to a growing dust problem in California that has implications for millions of residents’ health and the state’s climate. A new study published in... Read More
UC Merced Brings Climate Justice Course to Title I High School Students Across the Nation
May 28, 2025
Recently, more than 150 students at 10 high schools in Los Angeles, New York City and Washington, D.C. completed Climate Justice, a UC Merced course , through a unique partnership between the University of California and the National... Read More
Gift Creates UC Merced’s First Endowed Chair in Agricultural Technology
May 21, 2025
A new endowed chair will significantly enhance UC Merced’s work to advance research and innovation in the agricultural technology sector. Housed in the School of Engineering, the Christine Nemec Long Endowed Chair in Agricultural... Read More