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Extreme Wildfires: Climate Change, Not Coincidence

September 10, 2020

NAIA Recognizes UC Merced as a Five-Star Institution

September 9, 2020

Trounstine: What Trump Misunderstands About Suburban Voters

September 9, 2020

Professor Tracey Osborne Taking on Complex, Grand Challenges in Climate and Social Justice

September 9, 2020
The world is a complex place, and humanity faces major challenges. Climate change mitigation might be the most difficult, in large part because of the interdependency of living things and their ecosystems. How do people transform economic systems so they are also sustainable for people and the...

How History Gets Rewritten

September 8, 2020

$100K Donation by HP Makes Summer Bridge a ‘Remote’ Possibility

September 4, 2020
Many universities across the country have transitioned to remote instruction, which can present a new set of challenges to students who might not have access to the right equipment to complete their coursework. Some students at UC Merced received additional help from HP, which donated 100...

How Immigration and Trade Policy Have Shaped Ag in the U.S.

September 3, 2020

Global Fire Outlook Not Good News, but Mitigation is Possible, Analysis Shows

September 3, 2020
Wildfire is a natural process necessary to many ecosystems. But wildfires are getting worse and more damaging, and it is our fault, according to new research. A paper by two UC Merced researchers and their colleagues, published in a new Nature journal called Nature Reviews Earth &...

Alum Develops Device to Measure and Manipulate Invisible Force

September 2, 2020
As scientists build smaller and smaller machines, they need to understand the invisible forces that make those machines work. Thanks to research and the initiative of then-UC Merced graduate student Jake Pate, some of those forces can now be measured and manipulated. Pate, who graduated in...

UC Merced Ranked High by Washington Monthly

September 2, 2020
UC Merced is one of the top universities for promoting upward mobility, research and civic engagement at an affordable price, according Washington Monthly magazine. The campus is rated No. 56 out of the 389 four-year universities that appear on Washington Monthly’s new 2020 College Guide...

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