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Podcast Focuses on New Agriculture and California’s Future

July 14, 2020
On a hot June evening, UC Merced Professor Josh Viers joined farm advocate and small farmer Tom Willey on his front porch near Fresno to talk about California’s water, disadvantaged communities, agricultural production and the future as part of the new “Down on the Farm”...

Ten Simple Rules for Building an Anti-Racist Research Lab

July 13, 2020

Many Undocumented Youth Remain in Limbo

July 13, 2020

Why COVID-19 Is Disproportionately Affecting People of Color

July 10, 2020

Climate Change Community Must Address Historic Inequities

July 9, 2020

Three Awarded UC Pre-Professoriate Fellowships

July 8, 2020
UC Merced graduate students Anabel Castillo, Veronica Lerma and Sammy Villa are recipients of the University of California’s inaugural President’s Pre-Professoriate Fellowship (PPPF). The UC Office of the President launched the PPPF as part of its UC-Hispanic Serving Institutions...

11,000-year-old Mine in Underwater Cave Holds Surprises

July 7, 2020

UC Merced Welcomes Juan Sánchez Muñoz as Fourth Chancellor

July 6, 2020
The University of California, Merced, is nearing the completion of an unprecedented campus expansion project and raising its reputation across the nation and the world, all during a time in which the COVID-19 pandemic has upended nearly every aspect of people’s daily lives and created...

NASA Renews Campus Research Center for Another Two Years

July 2, 2020
The Merced nAnomaterials Center for Energy and Sensing (MACES) —UC Merced’s NASA-funded center for nanomaterials-based research and education — has received a two-year, $1.8 million renewal from the federal space agency. Continuing to build on the research already underway...

Professor and Falasco Chair Berhe Recognized as a Carnegie Corporation Distinguished Immigrant

July 1, 2020
Every Fourth of July, the Carnegie Corporation of New York honors the legacy of its founder Andrew Carnegie, by recognizing an extraordinary group of immigrants, who are now naturalized American citizens, and who have made notable contributions to the progress of American society. This year,...

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