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New Review Shows Lack of Equal Access for COVID Testing

July 22, 2020

Low-Wage Work Is Linked to Spread of COVID-19, Study Finds

July 21, 2020
California counties with high numbers of low-wage workers are seeing higher incidence of COVID-19, suggesting a link between so-called “worker distress” and spread of the virus, according to a new study by UC Merced’s Community and Labor Center. While efforts to contain COVID...

New Project Aims to Advance Understanding of Immune Cells as they Develop

July 20, 2020
Maybe now more than ever, scientists need to understand the immune system. A new National Institutes of Health grant is funding a cross-disciplinary collaboration between bioengineering Professor Joel Spencer and immunology Professor Jennifer Manilay that will allow them to watch as immune-...

Central Valley Musicians to Perform Online in the Levitt AMP Virtual Music Series

July 17, 2020
UC Merced and the City of Merced, through the Levitt Foundation, are hosting a virtual concert in August as part of the current Levitt AMP Virtual Music Series. The series was moved online in response to the postponement of national in-person events due to COVID-19. Music fans across the country...

New Study Finds Media Coverage Could Discourage Many from Guiding Groundwater Use

July 16, 2020
Superficial media coverage of California’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) could discourage democratic engagement on resource-management issues by having focused on relatively few stakeholders, a new study from UC Merced shows. Because water is essential to everyone, all have...

UC Merced Feature Videos, Graphics Nationally Recognized in Publications Contest

July 15, 2020

'I am the future': During COVID-19, the Fight to Succeed

July 15, 2020

Professor Emeritus Mark Aldenderfer Honored with Dickson Chair

July 14, 2020
Esteemed anthropologist and archaeologist Professor Mark Aldenderfer, who retired this month from UC Merced, has been awarded the Edward A. Dickson Emeriti Professorship Endowed Chair, the university announced. Aldenderfer is the second UC Merced faculty member to receive the one-year...

Professor Mark Aldenderfer Closes His Time at UC Merced and Seeks New Mountains to Climb

July 14, 2020
Esteemed archaeologist and anthropologist Mark Aldenderfer, the new Edward A. Dickson Emeriti Professorship endowed chair, brings his distinguished time on campus to a close this month, as he steps away from daily life of the university. Aldenderfer joined the UC Merced campus in 2010,...

More than a Dreamer

July 14, 2020

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