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UC Merced offering STEM Summer Camps, Registration Now Open

June 9, 2022

Symposium to Open Doors on Education Research in the Valley

June 7, 2022
For the first time, UC Merced has partnered with local higher education institutions for a two-day symposium dedicated to education research findings from the Central Valley. The Central Valley Region Interdisciplinary Symposium on Education Research (CV-RISER) will bring together researchers,...

‘Molecular LEGO’ Study Analyzes Building Blocks of Partially Disordered Protein

June 6, 2022
Bioengineering Professor Victor Muñoz and his lab have created a new way to solve some of the mysteries among an increasingly important class of proteins that don’t appear to have any specific structures but serve very important functions, including the complex genetic processes that...

Mucus Molecules can Thwart Fungal Infection, Researchers Discover

June 6, 2022
An international team of researchers, including Professor Clarissa Nobile from UC Merced, has discovered which component in mucus prevents a fungus most humans carry from turning destructive. This research lays the foundation for a new class of antifungal medicines. Candida albicans (C....

California Imposes Harsh Limits on Water Use

June 5, 2022

Highlighting a Dynamic, Diverse and Accomplished Cohort of New Bobcats

June 3, 2022
UC Merced is highlighting incoming first-year students for fall 2022 — a dynamic, diverse and accomplished cohort of new Bobcats. Edwin Casillas chose UC Merced for many reasons, he said. He likes the “little city” feel of the campus. He is drawn to the “friendly student...

Campus Awarded Edible Food Recovery Grant

June 1, 2022
UC Merced’s Office of Sustainability’s Bobcat Eats Food Waste Awareness and Prevention Program, in partnership with United Way of Merced, Community Initiatives 4 Collective Impact and the 18th St. People’s Garden, has been awarded a $250,000 grant from the...

Bioengineers Work on New Technology to Look Deep Inside Living Tissue and Tumors

May 31, 2022
Bioengineering Professor Changqing Li is building a high-resolution CT imaging scanner that will allow scientists to study and understand how oxygen plays a role in cancer therapy and stem cells growing in deep tissue such as bone marrow, and possibly develop new advances to culture stem cells...

Chavez & Herrera Named CoSIDA Academic All-District

May 27, 2022

Newsom devotes $18M to new Kern County educational collaborative

May 27, 2022

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