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New Major Trains Students to Tell the Planet’s Urgent Stories

September 28, 2023

Compelling storytelling is vital to ensuring the action needed to secure a habitable planet for future generations, according to an increasing amount of research. UC Merced is recruiting students now to become the next environmental storytellers. Students who are interested in creatively conveying...

HACU Leadership Cohort an ‘Exciting Opportunity to Learn,’ Ortiz Says

September 26, 2023

Physiology Professor Rudy M.Ortiz has been named a Fellow in this year's cohort of the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities’ Leadership Academy (La Academia de Liderazgo). The program is designed to increase diverse representation in executive and senior-level positions in higher...

UC Merced Alum Drives Innovation in Drug Manufacturing

September 26, 2023

You could almost say Edwin Shen was destined to become a bioengineer. His mother, a medical doctor, practices pathology in Northern California, and his father retired from a career as a mechanical engineer for medical device companies. “I guess what I do is right in the middle of my parents’...

Grants Fund Wide Variety of Climate Change Research Projects

September 25, 2023

UC Merced researchers will tackle climate changes in multiple ways through more than $4 million in grants recently awarded from within the university. The Office of Research and Economic Development (ORED) issued nine awards totaling $4,096,197 for proposals that range from studying methane gas...

Three Hellman Fellows Awarded at UC Merced

September 22, 2023

Three UC Merced researchers have recently received the prestigious Hellman Fellowship. Computer science and engineering Professor Shijia Pan, economics Professor Briana Ballis and life and environmental sciences Professor Xuan Zhang have all been named Hellman Fellows. The Hellman Fellows...

Chemistry Postdoc Awarded Merck Research Award

September 18, 2023

Miguel Chacón-Terán was selected as one of 16 scientists from across the country to receive the 2023 Merck Research Award for Underrepresented Chemists of Color, intended to support rising chemists of color while also recognizing their resilience in pursuit of scientific excellence. “Being part of...

What is the Future of Water? UC Merced Hosts Vital Discussion

September 15, 2023

Water is the most precious, and most debated, resource in the Central Valley. Secure Water Future (SWF) and the UC Merced Library are co-hosting a vital discussion Sept. 28 about the future of water and the role of history in shaping water policy. Mark Arax, author of "The Dreamt Land: Chasing...

Most of the Universe Composed of Dark Energy, Researchers Show

September 12, 2023

A UC Merced researcher and her teammates around the world have succeeded in measuring the total amount of matter in the universe for the second time. A new paper in the Astrophysical Journal, titled “Constraining Cosmological Parameters using the Cluster Mass-Richness Relation,” shows that matter...

UC Merced Researcher Earns Her Third Early Career Award

September 12, 2023

A UC Merced Materials Science and Engineering professor recently earned a prestigious award from the Army Research Office, a directorate of the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Army Research Laboratory. The Army Investigator Award is the third early career award for Yue "Jessica"...

Department of Energy Awards $37 Million to Build Research Capacity

September 7, 2023

Five faculty members from the School of Natural Sciences received grants recently from the Department of Energy (DOE) under its Funding for Accelerated, Inclusive Research (FAIR) initiative. To support research at minority-serving institutions and emerging research institutions, the DOE announced...