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Forest Carbon: Store it or Burn it? Actually, Both is Best

September 25, 2025

Photo depicts smoke over a wildfire burning through a forest.
Storing carbon in forests is an essential, nature-based buffer against climate change. Yet forests packed with too many trees increase the threat of severe wildfires, which are becoming all too common in warmer, drier conditions. A team of UC Merced and collaborating researchers evaluated the...
UC Merced Ph.D. graduate Fabiola Perez-Lua

Fellowship Lifts Mission of Farmworkers’ Daughter to Improve Immigrant Health

A daughter of San Joaquin Valley immigrant farmworkers has earned the opportunity to study alongside a nationally prominent health researcher and energize her mission to improve the well-being of...

Buhach Valedictorian Pursues Environmental Engineering at UC Merced this Fall

This is part of a series of profiles of new UC Merced Bobcats enrolled for the fall 2025 semester. Drake Ledford was an exemplary high school student, earning a 4.29 GPA. The Merced...
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Boosting AI and Science: NSF Invests $600K in OpenDOTA Project at UC Merced

The U.S. National Science Foundation has awarded nearly $600,000 to support a groundbreaking project at UC Merced aimed at accelerating the future of artificial intelligence and scientific research...

UC Merced Launches Bobcat Club to Support Scholar-Athletes in NCAA Division II Competition

To mark UC Merced’s entry into National Collegiate Athletics Association NCAA Division II competition, the university is launching the Bobcat Club – an initiative designed to support...
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Vaping Produces a Chemical that Destroys Human Tissue, Research Shows

In addition to being used recreationally, marijuana and cannabidiol, or CBD, one of the cannabinoids produced by the marijuana plant, are thought to have medical benefits such as helping with...
Incoming UC Merced student Manjot Maan is pictured shooting a basketball against a graphic that reads "Bobcat Bound"

New Adventures Close to Home for Incoming UC Merced Student

This is part of a series of profiles of new UC Merced Bobcats enrolled for the fall 2025 semester. Manjot Maan is a student-athlete from Modesto who will focus on academics when he...
UC Merced Professor Daisy Verduzco Reyes

Study: Mexican American Millennials Link Success to Providing for Parents

For many first-generation Mexican American college graduates, the definition of success includes paying their parents’ bills or even buying them a home. Lifting the social or financial...
Professor Amemiya, right, with Past President Leslie Pick, left, and President Karen Crow.

Amemiya Awarded for Research, Teaching, Outreach and Service

Department of Molecular and Cell Biology Professor Chris Amemiya, former interim director of the Health Sciences Research Institute, has been honored by the Pan American Society for Evolutionary...
Two people with a banner, blue and yellow graphic reading "Bobcat Bound."

Incoming Bobcats ‘Grew Up’ with UC Merced

This is part of a series of profiles of new UC Merced Bobcats enrolled for the fall 2025 semester. One could say UC Merced has always been part of incoming Bobcats Ella and Satchel Ortez...

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