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Community and Labor Center Receives Historic $6.5 Million Award

May 2, 2022
The UC Merced Community and Labor Center (CLC) has received a historic multimillion-dollar award to continue its mission of conducting research and educating the public about low-wage work, immigrant and workers' rights, workplace health and safety, among other issues. The James Irvine...

California Sunshine Could be Key to Combating Drought

April 28, 2022

Political Science Professor Named 2022 Carnegie Fellow

April 27, 2022
The Carnegie Corporation of New York announced that Department of Political Science Chair and Professor Jessica Trounstine has been named to the 2022 Class of Andrew Carnegie Fellows. Each of the program's 28 award recipients will receive a $200,000 stipend to devote their time...

UC Merced Partners to Support the 1300 Campaign

April 26, 2022

UC Merced Joins Partnership to Increase Enrollment of Students of Color in College

April 26, 2022
UC Merced continues to pave the way to success for students of color to thrive at a four-year college. To continue to support these efforts, the campus, in collaboration with Stanislaus State, announced the expansion of the 1300 Campaign, an initiative aimed to send an additional 1,300 young people...

Jessica Wilson’s CBD Research Talk Advances Her to UC Grad Slam Final

April 26, 2022
UC Merced’s top 10 Glad Slam finalists went head-to-head earlier this month to share their research in three minutes, in a format meant to share their scholarly work in a manner that is accessible for the general public. Quantitative and Systems Biology (QSB) Ph.D. candidate Jessica Wilson...

GAMWS Hosting Spring Events in April and May

April 22, 2022
Just in time for spring, the Department of Global Arts, Media and Writing Studies (GAMWS) is sponsoring several events over the next few weeks. The fourth annual GASP Faculty Concert is scheduled for Saturday, April 30, starting at 7 p.m. at the Merced College Theater with featured...

Cottrell Award Giving Undergrad a Grad Student Experience

April 21, 2022
Physics undergraduate student Elsa Vazquez and her faculty mentor Professor David Strubbe have won a prestigious Cottrell Postbaccalaureate award that allows Vazquez to continue her research into 2D materials for another year after she graduates with her bachelor's in May. In her...

Dry Weather Forecast Calls For Higher Food Prices—And Billions In Farm Losses

April 21, 2022

California Sea Grant Funds Grad Student’s Shark Conservation Research

April 20, 2022
Leopard shark (Triakis semifasciata) populations in the San Francisco Estuary (SFE) are experiencing extreme decline in recent years, causing concern for coastal ecosystems. With funding from a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) California Sea Grant Graduate Research...

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