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New UC President Drake Praises Merced for Research, Diversity, Student Success

October 19, 2020
In just 15 years since its founding, UC President Michael V. Drake, M.D., said UC Merced has come to embody the best of what the University of California has to offer when it comes to research excellence, social mobility and diversity.   Drake chose UC Merced as the...

Hard Shells and Electrosensory Gels: Lab Makes Surprising Discovery

October 19, 2020
Molecular biology Professor Chris Amemiya and his former graduate student Molly Phillips have made a discovery that upends traditional ideas about a structural polysaccharide called chitin that is found in some fish. Over the course of their studies, they collected evidence that chitin...

UC Merced Athletics Homecoming History

October 18, 2020

Raising Our Voices for Diversity in the Geosciences

October 16, 2020

As jobs vanished, immigrants left California

October 16, 2020

Trump campaigns on suburban preservation.

October 15, 2020

With Fire Threatening, National Parks Turn to UC Merced for Help Preserving History

October 15, 2020
Ward Eldredge warily monitored the fire’s progress. As curator of the archives of the Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, he deliberated what would need to be done if the nearby Castle Fire continued its approach toward the parks’ headquarters. The air around Three Rivers grew...

The Amazing Secret to Cutting 25% of Carbon

October 14, 2020

Political Scientists Study Effects of Affluence in Newest Nature Publication

October 14, 2020
How does socioeconomic inequality affect people? Seeing expensive items such as cars, which function as signs of social class, can potentially influence people’s political behavior according to a new study by political science professors Melissa Sands and Daniel de Kadt in the journal...

Force From 'Nothing' Used to Control and Manipulate Objects

October 13, 2020

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