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Staff Puts Students First to Promote Success and Learning

January 19, 2016
Whether staffing the front counter, answering phone calls and emails or chatting online, staff members at UC Merced’s Students First Center (SFC) pride themselves on providing excellent customer service to all undergraduate and graduate students. “We’re called the Students First Center because we...

Researcher’s Work Shows History Doesn’t Indicate the Future of Climate Change

January 13, 2016
Shakespeare might have been right when he wrote “what’s past is prologue,” but not when it comes to modeling climate change. A new study shows that rising air temperatures could have a crippling effect on the likelihood of precipitation falling as snow. That’s a huge problem for California, because...

A Record 22,632 Students Seek Admission to UC Merced

January 11, 2016
Demand for an education from the University of California, Merced, remains high, with 22,632 applicants competing for admission for 2,100 undergraduate seats in Fall 2016, an increase of 13.5 percent over last year’s total. The rate of growth is the highest among all campuses in the University of...

Student Team Makes the Cut in Global ‘Hyperloop’ Competition

January 5, 2016
A small team of undergraduate students from UC Merced is gaining major exposure in a global competition to design portions of what could be the next big innovation in transportation. Elon Musk, the billionaire inventor and co-founder of PayPal and Tesla Motors, has envisioned a “hyperloop” in...

Day of Giving Nets More Than $310K for Scholarships

December 23, 2015
UC Merced employees and alumni were loud and proud supporters of the #GiveTueUCM campaign, part of the international day of charity known as Giving Tuesday on Dec. 1. Including matching funds, the university raised more than $310,000 for undergraduate scholarships and $316,000 total. Last year’s...

Psychologist: Show Troubled Kids Peter Parker, Not Spider-Man

December 21, 2015
Before Spider-Man became Spider-Man, he was Peter Parker, an orphan living with relatives of modest means, and a bullying victim forced to cope with the murder of his uncle. Not many kids in those circumstances will develop superpowers from a bite by a radioactive spider, but a UC Merced...

Humans Have Disrupted Ecosystems for 6,000 Years, Research Shows

December 16, 2015
The basic structure of Earth’s ecosystems lasted for 300 million years but changed about 6,000 years ago, and humans are the most likely reason. A team of about 25 researchers from around the globe, including UC Merced Professor Jessica Blois, outline that discovery in a paper published today in...

UC Merced, County Unite to Conserve Land, Enhance Recreation

December 15, 2015
The University of California, Merced, is working with the County of Merced on plans for a new recreation area between campus and Lake Yosemite and protection for wetlands adjacent to campus. The Merced County Board of Supervisors at its meeting today agreed to a memorandum of understanding (MOU)...

UC Merced Shares in Three of Four UC Catalyst Grants

December 11, 2015
University of California President Janet Napolitano announced this week the 2016 recipients of the President’s Research Catalyst Awards, and professors from UC Merced are contributors to three of the four projects. Professors Asmeret Asefaw Berhe, Michael Dawson, Teamrat Ghezzehei and Jason Sexton...

Researchers Model Near Future of Coastal Redwoods’ Habitat

December 9, 2015
Many species of trees and plants have begun migrating as the climate changes, but some, like California’s giant coastal redwoods, can’t just pick up and move. The proximity of the ocean, which has unique effects on temperature and climate, makes it challenging to predict what the redwoods’ habitat...

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