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Multiyear Drought Caused Massive Forest Die-off in Sierra Nevada

July 1, 2019
The most extreme drought event in hundreds of years caused a catastrophic die-off of the Sierra Nevada’s mature trees in 2015-2016. A study published today in Nature Geoscience details how UC Merced Professor Roger Bales and his colleague Professor Michael Goulden from UC Irvine...

Movements Can Lead to Lasting Change, New Sociology Book Demonstrates

July 1, 2019
A social movement’s cause can be as diverse as the people who spur it in the first place —examples abound, from community organizations initiating struggles for neighborhood sidewalks and clean water to national level mobilizations led by labor unions and their allies against the...

Two Longtime University Supporters Honored With Chancellor’s Medals

June 27, 2019
Dr. Art Kamangar and Calvin E. Bright have been invaluable in the development of UC Merced since before the campus opened its doors. To commemorate their philanthropy and outstanding service, this week they were awarded the prestigious Chancellor’s Medal, the highest honor for extraordinary...

Three Ph.D. Students Receive 2019 NSF Fellowships

June 27, 2019
UC Merced doctoral student Melissa Spence and incoming graduate students Caleb Larnerd and Cristian Sarabia were awarded Graduate Research fellowships (GRFP) from the National Science Foundation. The fellowship provides multiyear support to predoctoral students in the fields of science,...

Chancellor Leland Recognized as Woman of the Year

June 27, 2019
The Merced Chamber of Commerce has named Chancellor Dorothy Leland their 2019 Woman of the Year. Leland was honored at a ceremony earlier this month. The chamber credited Leland’s leadership of the university for not only helping to expand the youngest campus in the UC system, but for...

UC Merced Ranked One of the Top Young Universities in U.S.

June 26, 2019
UC Merced continues to build on its reputation as a world-class research university, debuting at No. 4 among U.S. universities in the 2019 Times Higher Education Young University Rankings released today. The list ranks the best 351 universities in the world that are 50 years old and younger. UC...

Sierra Seedlings Illustrate Effects of Climate Change on Next Generation of Forests

June 24, 2019
Climate change is bad news for forests, and a new study by UC Merced Professor Emily Moran demonstrates one aspect of that news. Higher summer temperatures hurt tree seedlings’ growth and survival. But whether that is entirely bad depends on the degree of change in the number of young...

NYPost: Dating Only for Free Food?

June 24, 2019

VPR: Extension Program Works to Improve Valley Child Care Options

June 21, 2019

Admissions Director Reflects on Decades of Promoting UC Merced

June 19, 2019
There’s something about a UC Merced student that’s just different. Different from your average “college kid” and different from other students in the University of California system. Bobcats are hard-working, focused and driven. Encarnación “Chon” Ruiz gets...

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