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Register Ahead for Fall Innovate to Grow; Event Highlights Experiential Learning

December 6, 2021
More than 40 student teams from the School of Engineering will show off the projects they’ve been designing and assembling for community partners — from data analysis and food processing to autonomous mobile robots and water-treatment monitoring. The Fall 2021 Innovate to Grow (I2G) showcase takes...

Microorganisms Consume Last Bits of Oxygen from Low-oxygen Ocean Zones, Study Shows

December 6, 2021
Even the tiniest organisms have a surprisingly huge effect on life in the oceans, eating up the last bits of oxygen in certain areas, preventing larger marine life from surviving there, a new study shows. Department of Life and Environmental Sciences Professor Michael Beman published “...

Shakespeare in Yosemite Film "Imogen in the Wild" Addresses Environmental Justice

December 2, 2021
After a monthslong collaboration between dozens of UC Merced students, professional artists, National Park Service staff and Merced community members, Shakespeare in Yosemite's first feature-length film, "Imogen in the Wild," celebrated its premiere in November on YouTube. The 90-minute film is an...

With Fellowship, Grad Students Pay It Forward at Community College Level

December 1, 2021
Their community college experiences occurred hundreds of miles apart, but Kim Arellano Carmona and John Wilson each found the support and inspiration that would propel them to Ph.D. candidate studies at UC Merced. Now they both have a golden opportunity to give back as awardees of a fellowship...

Maddie Door Named CoSIDA Academic All-District

November 30, 2021
University of California, Merced women's soccer defender Maddie Door has been named to the CoSIDA Academic All-District Women's Soccer First Team for her stellar performances athletically and in the classroom. This is the second consecutive honor for Door, who has maintained a 4.0 grade-point...

Pay it Forward During “Give to UC Merced” Monthlong Virtual Fundraiser

November 29, 2021
As a way to help students reach their academic goals, UC Merced is inviting campus supporters to virtually come together and take part in the “Give to UC Merced” initiative. For a second year, the traditional 24-hour period of giving held the Tuesday after Thanksgiving will be expanded through the...

From Shakespeare to Music Awards Shows: UC Merced Undergrad Hits the Right Notes

November 24, 2021
This time around, what happened in Las Vegas will not stay there — at least for Cathryn Flores. The fourth-year undergraduate, who's working on a major in English and minor in writing, reached yet another milestone in her music career as she attended a major Latin music awards show recently to be...

Winston Cone Optics' Innovative Technology Garners State, National Attention

November 22, 2021
When people hear the word “solar,” many think of solar panels on a house, which generate electricity. But there is another way to use energy harnessed by the sun: heat. Founding faculty member and Director of the University of California Advanced Solar Technologies Institute (UC Solar)...

Engineering Students Translate Math Curriculum, Build App to Help Early Learners

November 17, 2021
It’s a scene familiar to many students: sitting at the kitchen table, utterly hopeless because they can’t solve that tricky math problem. Many people can identify with that feeling and if it’s not conquered, it can turn into what Chris Wright calls “math phobia” — something students at UC Merced...

Study Shows Climate-Driven Forest Fires on the Rise

November 17, 2021
An upside of the increase in forest fires in the West is that they reduce the amount of fuel available for other burns. That might provide a buffering effect on western fires for the next few decades, but the threat of climate-driven forest fires is not diminishing, a new study shows. Without...

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