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New Field Station Hosts High School Student Internship Opportunity

July 3, 2019
Sixteen Tulare County high school students have completed the inaugural internship program through UC Merced’s partnership with the Tulare County Office of Education (TCOE). Late last year, the university partnered with TCOE to establish the UC Merced/SCICON Field Station in the Sierra Nevada...

The Guardian: Google's Millions Will Transform San Jose at What Cost?

July 3, 2019

VPR: Extremely Dry Soil Connects Forest Die-Offs To Prolonged Drought

July 3, 2019

First Sacramento, then the Smithsonian for Arts Faculty Member’s Curation

July 2, 2019
What is art’s place in turbulent times? How does an immigrant live and thrive in a host country with laws that render one’s existence alien? And how does one continue to see beauty even in the face of grave injustice? These are the guiding questions UC Merced Professor ShiPu Wang...

Phys.Org: Multi-year Drought Caused Massive Sierra Nevada Forest Die-off

July 2, 2019

Multiyear Drought Caused Massive Forest Die-off in Sierra Nevada

July 1, 2019
The most extreme drought event in hundreds of years caused a catastrophic die-off of the Sierra Nevada’s mature trees in 2015-2016. A study published today in Nature Geoscience details how UC Merced Professor Roger Bales and his colleague Professor Michael Goulden from UC Irvine...

Movements Can Lead to Lasting Change, New Sociology Book Demonstrates

July 1, 2019
A social movement’s cause can be as diverse as the people who spur it in the first place —examples abound, from community organizations initiating struggles for neighborhood sidewalks and clean water to national level mobilizations led by labor unions and their allies against the...

Two Longtime University Supporters Honored With Chancellor’s Medals

June 27, 2019
Dr. Art Kamangar and Calvin E. Bright have been invaluable in the development of UC Merced since before the campus opened its doors. To commemorate their philanthropy and outstanding service, this week they were awarded the prestigious Chancellor’s Medal, the highest honor for extraordinary...

Three Ph.D. Students Receive 2019 NSF Fellowships

June 27, 2019
UC Merced doctoral student Melissa Spence and incoming graduate students Caleb Larnerd and Cristian Sarabia were awarded Graduate Research fellowships (GRFP) from the National Science Foundation. The fellowship provides multiyear support to predoctoral students in the fields of science,...

Chancellor Leland Recognized as Woman of the Year

June 27, 2019
The Merced Chamber of Commerce has named Chancellor Dorothy Leland their 2019 Woman of the Year. Leland was honored at a ceremony earlier this month. The chamber credited Leland’s leadership of the university for not only helping to expand the youngest campus in the UC system, but for...

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