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New Study Finds Media Coverage Could Discourage Many from Guiding Groundwater Use

July 16, 2020
Superficial media coverage of California’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) could discourage democratic engagement on resource-management issues by having focused on relatively few stakeholders, a new study from UC Merced shows. Because water is essential to everyone, all have...

UC Merced Feature Videos, Graphics Nationally Recognized in Publications Contest

July 15, 2020

'I am the future': During COVID-19, the Fight to Succeed

July 15, 2020

Professor Emeritus Mark Aldenderfer Honored with Dickson Chair

July 14, 2020
Esteemed anthropologist and archaeologist Professor Mark Aldenderfer, who retired this month from UC Merced, has been awarded the Edward A. Dickson Emeriti Professorship Endowed Chair, the university announced. Aldenderfer is the second UC Merced faculty member to receive the one-year...

Professor Mark Aldenderfer Closes His Time at UC Merced and Seeks New Mountains to Climb

July 14, 2020
Esteemed archaeologist and anthropologist Mark Aldenderfer, the new Edward A. Dickson Emeriti Professorship endowed chair, brings his distinguished time on campus to a close this month, as he steps away from daily life of the university. Aldenderfer joined the UC Merced campus in 2010,...

More than a Dreamer

July 14, 2020

Podcast Focuses on New Agriculture and California’s Future

July 14, 2020
On a hot June evening, UC Merced Professor Josh Viers joined farm advocate and small farmer Tom Willey on his front porch near Fresno to talk about California’s water, disadvantaged communities, agricultural production and the future as part of the new “Down on the Farm”...

Ten Simple Rules for Building an Anti-Racist Research Lab

July 13, 2020

Many Undocumented Youth Remain in Limbo

July 13, 2020

Why COVID-19 Is Disproportionately Affecting People of Color

July 10, 2020

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