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Student Teams Win Cash Prizes at Innovate to Grow

May 19, 2015
The winners of this year’s Innovate to Grow competition have been announced. The event includes three components: The Mobile App Challenge, the Capstone competition for senior Innovation and Design Clinic teams and the Engineering Service Learning competition for undergraduate teams. Two prizes are...

Children’s Opera Series Returns for Sixth Year

May 18, 2015
Thousands of area children will attend performances of “Who Stole B-Flat?” on the UC Merced campus this week as part of an effort to expose Merced County youth to opera and theater.  In addition to the free performances being offered to schools all week, a performance for the community is scheduled...

Chemistry Researcher Awarded Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship

May 18, 2015
Researcher Makenzie Provorse parlayed her passion for computational chemistry into a position as UC Merced’s second Chancellor’s Postdoctoral fellow. As a runner up for the Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship — a 31-year-old program enhanced with more money for hiring incentives recently by UC...

Graduates and Supporters Share Excitement on Social Media

May 18, 2015
The world of social media was buzzing this past weekend with text and multimedia posts. Here is a sampling: [View the story “UC Merced Honors the Class of 2015” on Storify]

Political Science Grad Gaining Capital Experience

May 13, 2015
Baltazar Cornejo is poised to become a strong and tireless advocate for the Central Valley, thanks to a fellowship program that provides real-world experience in state government.  Born in Modesto to farmworker parents who had immigrated from Mexico, Cornejo received his bachelor’s degree in...

Huffington Post | Scientists May Have Just Found A Solution For Deadly Superbugs

May 12, 2015
Professor Miriam Barlow led a study that could have major implications for doctors working to fight off antibiotic-resistant infections.

Campus to Mark Milestone with 10th Graduating Class

May 12, 2015
When students walk across the stage at this weekend’s commencement ceremonies at the University of California, Merced, they will join the nearly 4,000 scholars who have earned degrees from the university, while marking yet another campus milestone as the campus’s 10th graduating class. “This is a...

Innovate to Grow Promises Exciting Developments

May 11, 2015
Innovate to Grow, the annual showcase of UC Merced student creativity, features some amazing teamwork this year, from medical and agricultural devices to mobile applications for saving energy and water. May 15 is the date for the fourth annual Innovate to Grow competition, the culmination of the...

Future of Humanity Linked to Soil Health in New 'Science' Article

May 7, 2015
Most people don’t spend a lot of time thinking about the dirt under their feet. But a new article co-authored by UC Merced Professor Asmeret Asefaw Berhe and published this week in the prestigious journal Science provides plenty of reasons why we should. Soil health isn’t just a matter of...

Researchers Reverse Bacterial Resistance to Antibiotics

May 6, 2015
The rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria is a growing problem in the United States and the world. New findings by researchers in evolutionary biology and mathematics could help doctors better address the problem in a clinical setting.   Biologist Miriam Barlow of the University of California,...

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