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UC Merced prides itself on being a collaborative learning environment for students, and a collaborative working environment for staffers and researchers. That aura of collaboration - and the thrill of spearheading a brand-new major – is what drewanthropologyprofessorLinda-Anne Rebhun from New...

MERCED - For the second consecutive year, student enrollment at the University of California, Merced, has risen 45 percent compared with the prior year, university officials announced today, Oct. 1. There are 2,718 students enrolled this fall, up from 1,871 in the fall of 2007 and 875 in the...

MERCED - Real roboticsisn’t like an old sci-fi movie where robots are out to take humans’ jobs and run the world. Instead, say the scientists who will use newly funded robotics equipment at the University of California, Merced, the humanoid robots that will be developed in the next 20 years will...

When UC Merced senior Sunny Grunloh set out to learn about black carbon - soot and char, for example - in soils after prescribed burns in Yosemite National Park this summer, she had no idea she was in for a big logistical challenge. She just knew she was getting the opportunity more than a hundred...