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Fall 2022 Commencement to Include First Graduate Division Ceremony

December 14, 2022
Downtown Merced will be covered in a sea of blue and gold over two days as hundreds of UC Merced Bobcats take part in fall commencement. Also, for the first time, graduate students will have their own ceremony to celebrate their achievements. The pomp and circumstance kick off with the inaugural...

UC Merced Students Earn Wins, Job Offers at National Engineering Conference

December 13, 2022
  UC Merced students came away from a national engineering conference with some big wins — including a first-place finish in a famous design competition and job offers from some of the most prestigious companies in the United States. UC Merced sent 34 students to the Society of Hispanic...

Packard Foundation Awards $1 Million to Support Climate Research at UC Merced

December 9, 2022
Longtime UC Merced supporter and institutional partner the David and Lucile Packard Foundation has made a significant gift to the campus that will catalyze research efforts and scientific investigations focused on climate change and developing sustainable solutions that ensure the planet’s health....

New Website Offers Farmers Vital Information at Their Fingertips

December 7, 2022
  When planting crops, farmers confront numerous questions. Among them: Will it get too hot? Is it likely frost will stunt growing? When is the best time to plant? What kind of pests could impact the harvest? UC Cooperative Extension climate adaptation specialist at UC Merced Tapan Pathak has...

Experts Recommend a New, More Innovative Approach to Wildfire Research

December 5, 2022
Fire scientists typically respond to agency opportunities and conduct research in response to past wildfires. But it is time they take more proactive, integrative, predictive approaches toward mitigating and adapting to this potentially devastating consequence of climate change, a group of...

UC Merced Students, Faculty, Staff Help the Needy at the Holidays

December 1, 2022
Throughout the year, the UC Merced Community Engagement Center (CEC) offers a variety of opportunities for students to work for the betterment of the area. But at the holidays, faculty and staff are invited to take part as well. Over Thanksgiving, the center raised money to purchase traditional...

Month-long Give to UC Merced 2022 Launches on Giving Tuesday

November 29, 2022
     On Tuesday, Nov. 29, UC Merced will kick off the season of giving by launching Give to UC Merced 2022. The campus’s annual fundraising initiative officially begins on Giving Tuesday — the traditional day of philanthropic support held the Tuesday after the Thanksgiving holiday — and lasts until...

Research Reveals an Easy Way Dairy Farmers Can Dramatically Reduce their Climate Impact

November 28, 2022
Adding even a small amount of biochar — a charcoal-like material produced by burning organic matter — to a dairy’s manure-composting process reduces methane emissions by 84%, a recent study by UC Merced researchers shows. The dairy industry is one of the main sources of methane in California,...

Ground Tilled, Crops to be Planted at UC Merced’s Smart Farm

November 28, 2022
Land has been tilled at UC Merced’s smart farm, the first physical step in developing the state-of-the-art project. “Even though it’s just a blank field, we have overcome some pretty big obstacles to be where we are today,” said Danny Royer, Experimental Smart Farm coordinator for the university....

Conference Brings Scores of Prospective Transfer Students to UC Merced

November 23, 2022
Almost 1,000 community college students representing 39 different campuses in California came to UC Merced to explore the opportunities for transfer to a University of California school. The all-day Puente Motivational Conference introduced the students and more than 100 faculty members to...

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