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Saturday Academies Offer Local Students Help with State Assessment

March 14, 2019
To help prepare middle-school students for the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP), UC Merced’s Center for Educational Partnership (CEP) collaborated with four local school districts to launch a series of Saturday math academies at the UC Merced campus....

New York Times: Children May Be Grown, but Parenting Doesn’t Seem to Stop

March 13, 2019

Food Waste Prevention Program Saves Thousands of Pounds of Food in Merced County

March 12, 2019
With nearly a third of all food worldwide being wasted and millions of people going hungry every day, preventing food from going to waste is a crucial operation. The Bobcat Eats Food Waste Awareness and Prevention Program may have a long name, but in a short amount of time it is playing a major...

Engineering Grad Programs Ranked Among Best in the Nation

March 12, 2019
UC Merced’s graduate programs in engineering had a strong showing in U.S. News & World Report’s 2020 edition of Best Graduate Schools, released today. Overall, UC Merced’s School of Engineering is ranked No. 134 in the nation, after debuting at No. 140 in 2015. “We...

KFSN ABC30: UC Merced Students Volunteer to Restore History Locally

March 12, 2019

NSF-Funded Center for Cellular and Biomolecular Machines Profiled at National Conference

March 12, 2019
The Center for Cellular and Biomolecular Machines (CCBM) was recently highlighted in a video at the Biophysical Society (BPS) Annual Meeting in Baltimore. The conference brings together more than 6,000 attendees from all over the world. CCBM is a National Science Foundation Center of...

Zach Brill Named GSAC Player of the Week

March 11, 2019

New Project Aims to Predict People Likely to use Firearms in Suicides

March 11, 2019
The majority of people who die by suicide do so with firearms, and there were more firearm suicides in America in 2017 than there were homicides committed by any method. Combined. Those shocking numbers from the FBI and American Foundation for Suicide Prevention are the impetus for two UC Merced...

Gizmodo: Why Do People Believe in Pseudoscience?

March 11, 2019

UC Merced Falls in Straight Sets to Third-Ranked BenU Mesa

March 10, 2019

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