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KQED | Climate Change Signs Seen in California Wildfires

August 16, 2016
Professor Leroy Westerling says wildfires on public lands across the West have increased 500 percent since the late 1970s.

To ‘Change the World,’ UC Researchers Start Writing

August 15, 2016
When UC San Francisco Professor Elizabeth Dzeng wrote about homelessness for the San Francisco Chronicle, she wasn’t just conveying her expertise on a critical social issue — she was working as part of a cohort of roughly 60 faculty members across nine UC campuses who are all committed to...

GirlCode Workshop Aims to Address STEM Gender Gap

August 10, 2016
Women make up about half of the nation’s college-educated workforce, but in the fields of science and engineering, that drops to less than 30 percent. UC Merced’s STEM Resource Center is working to change that discrepancy by addressing the gender gap head on — and at early ages. Last month, the...

New Research Center to Leverage High-Performance Computing Hardware

August 8, 2016
Faculty members from the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Chemistry and Chemical Biology and Mechanical Engineering groups are forming the newest research center at UC Merced, seeking the best ways to conduct high-performance computing. With a hardware donation from the NVIDIA...

Alumna Stays Local, Pledges to Serve the Underserved

August 3, 2016
When she began her journey at UC Merced, Sheena Truong had the future planned out. She’d graduate, go to dental school and become an orthodontist. But Merced had more to offer — and in a roundabout way, it became her destination. In her third year at UC Merced, Truong realized that meeting the...

Alumnus Named Women's Volleyball Coach

August 2, 2016
Surabordin “Ai” Prachumsri has been hired to take the helm as UC Merced’s second head coach in women's volleyball and the first alumnus to become a head coach for the campus. Prachumsri brings a combined seven years of experience as a student-athlete and assistant coach of UC Merced’s men’s...

Professor’s Early Career Work Recognized With Award

August 1, 2016
Professor Jessica Blois is the newest recipient of the International Biogeography Society’s MacArthur & Wilson Award recognizing early career work and contributions to biogeography. Blois, a paleoecologist with the School of Natural Sciences, is the only recipient of this year’s award, which...

UC Solar Graduate Student Lighting the Night in a Controlled Way

July 27, 2016
One of the most stunning sights in Yosemite National Park has nothing to do with granite. It’s the night sky, Milky Way and all. But light pollution within the park can diminish that experience for visitors as well as change the circadian rhythms of flora and fauna. UC Merced graduate student...

Alumnus Expands Science Literacy Nonprofit to South America

July 25, 2016
A science literacy nonprofit created by UC Merced students is gaining an international foothold with planned expansion into classrooms in Ecuador. Growth is nothing new for BEAT — short for Biology, Engineering, Agriculture and Technology — but jumping the border is a significant step for the ...

Campus Growth Plans Earn Final Approval From UC Regents

July 21, 2016
The University of California, Merced, received final approval from the UC Board of Regents today (July 21) for an expansion plan that will nearly double the physical capacity of campus by 2020, enabling enrollment growth to 10,000 students after the project is completed. The regents voted...

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