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IT Member Wins Gender Diversity Award

October 17, 2017
Sarvani Chadalapaka, the high-performance computing (HPC) administrator for UC Merced’s Office of Information Technology, has been named one of six Inclusivity Initiative Scholarship recipients by the nonprofit group Internet 2. She is the only one of the six to earn the additional...

Students Invited to Celebrate Political Science Anniversary

October 16, 2017
Political science students are invited to help celebrate the 10th anniversary of the unit’s founding with a special student-oriented event from 4:30-6:30 p.m. Oct. 18 in the Classroom and Office Building 2, Room 390. The event gives students the opportunity to meet with their faculty members...

Event to Address Race Issues on Campus, in the Community

October 16, 2017
As part of an ongoing community and campus dialog about race, the Graduate Students of Color Coalition at UC Merced presents “Addressing Race in Our Community: Unifying Against Bigotry,” a special event that is free and open to the public. The event begins at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 17...

Crumpled Nanosheets Could Help Produce Clean Energy

October 16, 2017
A new paper from School of Engineering Professor Vincent Tung has made the cover of Advanced Materials, one of the top journals in materials science and engineering, and the research could one day lead to new sources of clean energy. Hydrogen has long been the holy grail of clean fuel. Unlike...

Scientific American: Scientists See Climate Change in California's Wildfires

October 12, 2017
Prof. LeRoy Westerling says climate change is increasing the size and strength of wildfires.

Free Produce Initiative Launches on World Food Day

October 12, 2017
UC Merced will celebrate World Food Day with its first Pop-up Produce program from 10 a.m. to 2 pm. Oct. 16 on Scholars Lane. The Pop-up Produce event provides students with free, local and organic produce twice a month for the academic year. This month, students can garner fruits and vegetables...

Potential California-New York Partnership Highlights UC Solar Symposium

October 12, 2017
UC Merced Professor Roland Winston will announce a proposed solar research partnership between the states of California and New York at the 2017 UC Solar Research Symposium, to be held Oct. 13 at the California Public Utilities Commission Auditorium in San Francisco. “Achieving global...

Cognitive Scientists Find Links Between Jazz, Speech and Whale Songs

October 11, 2017
Jazz musicians riffing with each other, humans talking to each other and pods of killer whales all have interactive conversations that are remarkably similar to each other, new research reveals. Cognitive science researchers at UC Merced have developed a new method for analyzing and comparing the...

Campus Celebrates Community at Homecoming

October 11, 2017
UC Merced’s Homecoming Oct. 20-22 will draw students, staff, faculty, alumni, family and friends together for a weekend of activities that highlight the campus and the community. For the first time, three major campus events are being combined into a larger celebration. At Homecoming, alumni...

Valley Public Radio: Researcher Continues Fight Against Antibiotic Resistance

October 11, 2017
Prof. Miriam Barlow is interviewed about her research into antibiotic resistant bacteria, which cause around 2 million infections and 23,000 deaths in the U.S. each year.

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