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Leadership Awards Honor Students, Organizations

May 4, 2021
For the second year, the Margo F. Souza Student Leadership Center and the Office of Student Involvement (OSI) held the 2021 UC Merced Leadership Awards virtually. The April 30 event provided an opportunity for the center to acknowledge all student leadership witnessed by individuals at UC Merced...

Naughton Lab Creates Dashboard to Track Global Wastewater Testing for Covid-19

May 3, 2021
After the COVID-19 pandemic struck, scientists across the globe realized they could track the virus by testing sewage water. School of Engineering Professor Colleen Naughton pioneered a dashboard to host the global findings. One way Naughton finds who and where wastewater research is being...

$2.2M NIH Grant Designed to Produce Highly Trained, Diverse Ph.D. Workforce

April 28, 2021
A five-year, $2.2 million training grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will assist UC Merced with the development of diverse cohorts of doctoral students in interdisciplinary biomedical disciplines. Twelve trainees each academic year will benefit from NIH’s longstanding...

Undergraduate Experience: Keanu Velasquez

April 27, 2021
Name: Keanu Velasquez Major: Sociology Major and Psychology Minor Year: Graduating May 2021, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts Commencement Student Speaker Hometown: San Francisco What clubs or organizations were you part of at UC Merced? I was a member of the Pilipino-...

Undergraduate Experience: Sean Nguyen

April 27, 2021
Name: Sean Nguyen Year: Graduating May 2021, School of Natural Sciences Commencement Student Speaker Major: Chemistry Hometown: San Jose What clubs or organizations were you part of at UC Merced? I was in the Vietnamese Student Association (VSA) and INTRO Movement Dance Team. What...

Alicia Garza, Civil Rights Activist and BLM Co-Founder, Honored with Spendlove Prize

April 27, 2021
While this year's ceremony looked quite different from years past due to the coronavirus pandemic, the presentation of the Alice and Clifford Spendlove Prize in Social Justice, Diplomacy and Tolerance remained an important celebration. Alicia Garza, author, civil rights activist and co-...

Three From Men's Basketball Garner Postseason Recognition

April 26, 2021

Studies Find Sierra Fuel Treatments Benefit Trees and Streamflow, Though Not Together

April 26, 2021
Predicting the effects of forest fuel treatments is difficult and uncertain — it is unclear whether the treatments are more helpful to forest health or streamflow. According to new research by disturbance ecohydrologist Ryan Bart and his colleagues at the Sierra Nevada Research Institute (...

Champs! Men's Basketball Wins First Cal Pac Tournament Title

April 25, 2021

Bobcats Season Comes to a Close in National Championship Opening Round

April 22, 2021

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