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'Revolutionary Theatre' Performance to Explore Racism, Inequality

November 28, 2016
Students in the UC Merced Global Arts Studies Program will present “Voices of the Revolutionary Theatre Collective” Dec. 8 at the Merced Multicultural Arts Center. The production will explore the history of embedded racism through excerpts from the plays of Luis Valdez, Marvin X, Ben Caldwell,...

High-Altitude Archaeology Uncovers Earliest Evidence of Potato Consumption

November 28, 2016
Every French fry, gnocchi, tater tot and order of hash browns humans have eaten in the past 5,000 years can be traced back to one place in the world — northwestern Bolivia and southern Peru. A paper by UC Merced Professor Mark Aldenderfer and Assistant Project Scientist Claudia Rumold — recently...

Massive VR System Links Merced to the World

November 23, 2016
Imagine being able to explore the newly discovered hidden chambers in the Great Pyramid of Giza or microstructures within the human brain, to work on big-data projects with CERN or participate with performers in Australia — all without ever leaving Merced. It’s now possible to have those...

Student, Alumni Creating a Culture of Giving on Campus

November 21, 2016
Management and business economics major Christopher Bernal is leaving a legacy at UC Merced, as the first student to establish an endowed scholarship to support other UC Merced students in their quest for college degrees. Bernal and two alumni have each committed $10,000 as part of Giving Tuesday,...

Will Shadish Memorial Fellowship Announced for Giving Tuesday

November 17, 2016
During this year’s Giving Tuesday — an international day of giving held each year on the first Tuesday after Thanksgiving — UC Merced will honor Professor Will Shadish with a new graduate student fellowship fund. On Nov. 29, donors can direct their gifts to the Will Shadish Memorial Graduate...

People in Eurasia are Genetic Hybrids with Evolutionary Advantages, Study Shows

November 16, 2016
It’s not just luck or practice that gets Sherpa mountaineers up the slopes of Mt. Everest each year. Functioning so well at extreme elevations is in the Sherpa and Tibetan DNA — literally. A new study by UC Merced Professor Emilia Huerta-Sánchez — published recently in the journal Molecular Biology...

Grad Student’s Water-Mapping Work Leads to National Recognition

November 9, 2016
UC Merced graduate student Lorenzo Booth’s research into more efficient use of water for agriculture has earned him accolades from the American Water Resources Association for not only producing information, but presenting solutions. “If we can make the process of growing food more efficient and...

Grad Student’s Water-Mapping Work Leads to National Recognition

November 9, 2016
Grad student Lorenzo Booth is working on a water-footprinting project. UC Merced graduate student Lorenzo Booth’s research into more efficient use of water for agriculture has earned him accolades from the American Water Resources Association for not only producing information, but...

UC Merced Among the Country’s Most Sustainable Campuses

November 7, 2016
UC Merced is recognized as a top performer in the annual 2016 Sustainable Campus Index, tying for third with two other UC campuses for its sustainable investment practices. This is the second time UC Merced has made the Index, and comes among a flurry of other sustainability honors this...

Public Health Program Represents UC Merced at International Entomology Conference

November 2, 2016
UC Merced had a strong showing at this year's International Entomology Conference in Orlando, Florida. Public Health graduate student Eunis Hernandez presented a research poster titled 'Environmental and Socioeconomic factors associated with West Nile virus cases.' She was accompanied...

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