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UC Merced Heads South for Opening Round

November 14, 2017

#GiveTueUCM Aims for 1,000 Donors in a Day

November 14, 2017
For the past three years, members of the UC Merced community and friends have made the Tuesday after Thanksgiving a showstopper for our campus. Give Tue UC Merced (#GiveTueUCM), the annual 24-hour campaign to rally financial support around campus initiatives, has made a big impact over the years....

From White House to Campus, Labor Economist Digs Deep into Data

November 13, 2017
Professor Laura Giuliano isn’t the only female economics faculty member at UC Merced, but she is the only faculty member who worked in the Obama administration before joining the campus. As a senior labor economist supporting the president’s Council of Economic Advisers, Giuliano and...

UC Merced on Wrong End of Championship Thriller

November 11, 2017

Bobcats Rally Comes Up Short Saturday Night

November 11, 2017

New York Times: How the Ivy League Hides Its Cash

November 10, 2017
Prof. Charlie Eaton writes about issues related to university endowments and federal tax proposals.

Study: Climate Change, Drought Threaten Giant Sequoias

November 9, 2017
A new study published online in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences finds that the giant sequoia, a fixture of California’s Sierra Nevada forests for the past 2.6 million years, might be in jeopardy from the effects of drought and climate change. The iconic trees, which only...

Prestigious Fellowship Furthers Grad Student’s Asthma Research

November 9, 2017
Very few people will admit to an abiding love of statistics. But Emanuel Alcala, a second-year public health doctoral student, believes statistics are key to solving many of the San Joaquin Valley’s public health challenges. “I grew fond of statistics when I started working at the...

Cap Radio: Are Animal Sounds Speech Or Music? Researchers Trying To Find Out

November 8, 2017
Research from cognitive scientists Chris Kello, Butovens Médé and Ramesh Balasubramaniam is featured on Capital Public Radio.

Water Deeply: What Do We Know About Mountain Snowpack, Runoff? Far Too Little

November 8, 2017
In an extensive interview, Professor Roger Bales speaks on the Sierra snowpack and its importance to California's water system.

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