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Engineering Students Translate Math Curriculum, Build App to Help Early Learners

November 17, 2021
It’s a scene familiar to many students: sitting at the kitchen table, utterly hopeless because they can’t solve that tricky math problem. Many people can identify with that feeling and if it’s not conquered, it can turn into what Chris Wright calls “math phobia”...

Study Shows Climate-Driven Forest Fires on the Rise

November 17, 2021
An upside of the increase in forest fires in the West is that they reduce the amount of fuel available for other burns. That might provide a buffering effect on western fires for the next few decades, but the threat of climate-driven forest fires is not diminishing, a new study shows. Without...

Hotter Summer Days Mean More Sierra Nevada Wildfires

November 17, 2021

UC Merced Among Top Producers of Gilman Scholars

November 17, 2021
UC Merced was recognized by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs for producing the most Gilman recipients over the past 20 years in the following category: Medium Institution, 20-year Gilman Top Producer. Eighty-two students from UC Merced have been...

UC Merced Wins 104-38, Ties Largest Margin of Victory

November 16, 2021

Salinger & Spiva Headline Eight Women's Soccer Postseason Selections

November 16, 2021

Researchers to Study, Report on Impacts of Drought on Agriculture and Communities

November 16, 2021
Just because there has been rain lately doesn’t mean California is drought-free. A new $1.5 million research grant from the California Department of Food and Agriculture is supporting School of Engineering Professor Josué Medellín-Azuara, collaborating engineering professors Joshua Viers...

UC Merced, UC Davis Are Ground Zero for Saving Farms

November 16, 2021

UC Merced Heads to Miami for NAIA Opening Round

November 15, 2021

Exploring Microbial Interactions with Glowing Squid

November 15, 2021
As a young child, Professor Michele Nishiguchi would dive off the couch and into the shag carpet reefs of her family home, mimicking the turns and leaps of intrepid explorer and environmentalist Jacques Cousteau. This love of the ocean would remain with Nishiguchi as she progressed through her...

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