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Arts Meets Social Justice With Recycled Figures

October 20, 2015
Students in Richard Gomez’s Arts 171: Art for Social Change course have had a special role in the Yosemite Facelift, an annual project that focuses volunteers on cleaning up Yosemite National Park in late September after its busy season. This year, nearly 1,500 volunteers spent almost 9,700 work...

Super-Calculations Could Provide Clearer View of the Future

October 19, 2015
Applied mathematics Professor Noemi Petra develops algorithms and uses complicated computations to examine some of the world’s biggest problems — the ones that can’t be seen. They are called inverse problems — using actual observations to infer the values of parts of the problem that can’t be...

Engineering Student Making an Impact on Agriculture

October 16, 2015
Rebecca Quinte is a mechanical engineer who is learning to apply her skills and knowledge in unexpected ways, and that could end up benefitting farmers in the Central Valley and beyond. The UC Merced undergraduate student is working with Professor Andrea Joyce on a project that aims to shoo away...

Professor’s Invention Helps Scientists Win Nobel Prize

October 16, 2015
Professor Roland Winston has been tracking the Sudbury Neutrino Experiment since it began in the 1980s, because he invented the light collectors the scientists built to detect solar neutrinos. “I just wanted to make sure they worked,” he said. Last week, Winston learned with the rest of the world...

White House Recognizes UC Merced for Supporting Latino Community

October 15, 2015
UC Merced is one of nearly 150 public and private sector organizations who answered the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics’ 25th anniversary call to action. The campus has committed more than $750,000 through foundation support to the Gateway Scholars Program, which aims...

UC Merced Celebrates Food Day

October 15, 2015
On Food Day, Oct. 24, the nation will celebrate healthy, affordable and sustainably produced food. Food Day was created by the nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest to help bring the nation closer to a food system with real and healthy food that is produced with care for the...

UC Merced Manufacturing Startups at New Venture Lab

October 15, 2015
UC Merced’s latest foray into the community, the Venture Lab, officially opens today, but program members started work there weeks ago. “The Venture Lab is about channeling university innovation into the creation of new businesses,” Associate Vice Chancellor for Research and Economic Development...

Study: Skewed Academic Expectations Linked to Sexual Risk

October 14, 2015
Scholars and educators alike believe raising expectations leads to higher achievement and self esteem among adolescents. But new research from the University of California, Merced, shows that when a young woman’s achievement level doesn’t live up to those expectations, the result can be an increase...

Project Aims to Fight Breast Cancer One Message at a Time

October 13, 2015
Research indicates that obesity can increase a woman’s risk of developing and dying from breast cancer. But while communication about healthy eating has proven to be effective, a growing and significant subset of the population might not be getting the message. A new project at the University of...

Campus's Economic Impact in Valley Grows to $1.27 Billion

October 13, 2015
The University of California, Merced, directly invested nearly $170 million in the San Joaquin Valley economy over the past 12 months, according to the university’s annual Economic Impact Report released today (Oct. 13). Regional investments since the campus began start-up operations in July 2000...

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