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Veterans Upward Bound Program to Provide Wraparound Support for Servicemembers

November 9, 2023
Veterans with aspirations to pursue higher education will have access to new resources and support through the Veterans Upward Bound Program at UC Merced. This year, the university was selected as one of the recipients of the Department of Education (DOE) grant, which helps to provide first-...

UC Merced Team Picked for Federal EV Battery Competition

November 8, 2023
A team from UC Merced has been selected to participate in the Department of Energy (DOE) "BattChallenge," a three-year competition to develop a battery for an electric vehicle. Mechanical engineering Professor Ricardo Pinto de Castro is leading a team of students that will design...

UC Merced Classes Score High Marks in Global Ranking

November 8, 2023
UC Merced had several subjects in social science, natural science and engineering placed in the top tiers of the annual Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (GRAS) released by ShanghaiRanking Consulting. First published in 2017, the GRAS examines data from over 1,900 universities across 104...

Black Excellence Symposium at UC Merced Aims to Advance Racial Justice

November 7, 2023
UC Merced hosted the annual Black Excellence Symposium on Nov. 3. Stemming from the Valuing Black Lives Initiative , the symposium has aimed to advance racial justice and Black liberation at UC Merced since 2021. "I hope that participants take away some new knowledge, that they make...

UC Merced UpstART Presents Quinteto Latino

November 7, 2023
UC Merced's UpstART, a faculty-directed arts organization, presents Quinteto Latino, the San Francisco Bay Area wind quintet, expanding the boundaries of classical music by performing works exclusively by Latinx composers. On Wednesday, November 8, at 7 p.m., Quinteto Latino will bring...

An Exploration of Music's Role in Children's Brain Development

November 7, 2023
Music can be entertaining, moving and, when played too loud, infuriating. It also plays a vital role in the development of children's brains, one researchers are just beginning to understand. UC Merced cognitive sciences Professor Heather Bortfeld recently edited a special issue of the...

First-Generation Students Offer Advice for Those Who Come Next

November 7, 2023
Nearly 65 percent of UC Merced's undergraduate students are the first in their families to go to college. Being a college student of any kind can be a thrilling, confusing, challenging, exciting, overwhelming experience, sometimes all at once. When you're the first in your family to go to...

Cognitive Science Professor’s First Book Released by Princeton University Press

November 6, 2023
Cognitive science Professor Paul Smaldino has astronomically high hopes for his first book. “I hope literally everyone reads this book,” Smaldino said. “Modeling Social Behavior” is a textbook, so it probably won’t make the New York Times bestseller list any...

Labor, Community-based Groups Key to Addressing Climate Challenge, Study Shows

November 2, 2023
One of the major challenges of this century is democratically engaging institutions and large numbers of people with strategies to mitigate global warming by minimizing greenhouse gas emissions. A new study by sociology Professor Paul Almeida and colleagues in the Nature Portfolio’s...

Ed and Jeanne Kashian Give $5 Million to Support Medical Education at UC Merced

November 1, 2023
Ed and Jeanne Kashian, longtime UC Merced donors who have supported the campus since its earliest days, have made a $5 million gift to advance the university's medical education efforts. Slated for groundbreaking in the spring, a new state-of-the-art medical education building will be UC...

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