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Ancient Textile Discovery Suggests More Southern Route for Silk Road

April 7, 2016
Cloth remains found in the Samdzong tomb complex in Nepal by UC Merced Professor Mark Aldenderfer suggest the village might have been part of the long-distance trade network of the Silk Road. Textile and dye analyses of the cloth — the results of which were published recently in the journal STAR:...

Study: In-Home Parent Training Levels Field for Low-Income Kids

April 5, 2016
Home-based interventions that teach parents to engage children in playful interactive learning activities can close the cognitive development gap between disadvantaged children and higher-resource peers, according to a new study led by UC Merced Professor Jan Wallander. The study, published this...

Study Shows How Plants Could Adapt to Changing Climate

April 4, 2016
If you want to understand how plant populations will respond as the climate changes, just examine the plants in different locations. That’s one of the conclusions drawn by UC Merced School of Natural Sciences Professor Jason Sexton in a new paper that’s part of a special issue of the American...

New Lecture Series Articulates Campus’s Core Values

March 31, 2016
Carlos Castillo-Chavez has had, by all accounts, an extraordinarily successful academic career. He began as an immigrant from Mexico City and wound up researching and teaching at Cornell University for 18 years before moving to Arizona State University in 2004 — with multiple awards and honors in ...

Pine Bacteria Getting a Closer Look From Scientists

March 30, 2016
Professor Carolin Frank’s research into the nitrogen-fixing properties of bacteria inside the needles of some high-elevation pine trees is the topic of a new paper in the journal New Phytologist. Frank, with the School of Natural Sciences, won a $1.6 million, four-year grant from the National...

Message From the Provost and EVC on Professor William Shadish

March 29, 2016
To the campus community: I am sad to report that William Shadish, professor of quantitative psychology and a founding faculty member at UC Merced, died at his home on Sunday, March 27. Professor Shadish joined UC Merced in 2003, before there were any students or buildings, to help build a new...

Wells Fargo Gift Increases Focus on Critical Regional Projects

March 29, 2016
An increased gift from longtime campus partner Wells Fargo is allowing more engineering students at the University of California, Merced, to focus on solutions to problems related to water, energy and food. Wells Fargo awarded its Clean Technology and Innovation Grant to the UC Merced School of...

Students Part of ‘Symbiotic’ Effort to Meld Art With Science

March 28, 2016
Graduate student Sabah Ul-Hasan translated her love of science into four separate college degrees. She holds bachelor’s degrees in biology, chemistry, and environmental and sustainability studies, and a master’s in biochemistry (marine science) from universities in Utah and New Hampshire. Ul-Hasan...

Campus Celebrates LGBT+ Culture During Pride Week

March 23, 2016
UC Merced’s Pride Week kicks off March 28. The weeklong celebration is hosted by Lambda Alliance and LGBTQ+ Initiatives in the Office of Student Life. It’s a collaborative effort to affirm the LGBT+ community by providing recreational, social and support services, and learning opportunities to...

Student-Athlete Takes Leadership to the National Level

March 21, 2016
Junior Sammantha Fajardo wasn’t satisfied with merely representing UC Merced on the cross country course, so she stepped up to represent the university’s student-athletes at the national level. In April, Fajardo will attend the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletes (NAIA) Conference as...

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