Editor's note: This story is republished from the Spring/Summer 2026 issue of UC Merced Magazine.
Walk across UC Merced’s campus on any weekday, and you might hear laughter spilling from a classroom, feel the thrum of a wind tunnel or spot students crouched in a field searching for...
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From California's Sierra foothills to Sweden's Tyresta forest, the problems facing the world's national parks and reserved lands are immense and require a new way of thinking.
Park leaders from...
UC Merced Professor Rose Scott studies how young children begin to understand the social world and all its complexities.
It happens sooner than most would think.
Babies who are three months old can...
More than half of the water used in California for farming and drinking and other everyday uses comes by way of runoff from the Sierra Nevada, and gauging the amount of snow there and predicting how...
The University of California, Merced, today celebrates the opening of its state-of-the-art Stem Cell Instrumentation Foundry, made possible through the support of the California Institute for...
It was 2003, a full two years before the UC Merced campus began its first academic year, when the seeds were first planted for what would become the Frontiers of Science and Technology lecture ...
Political science professors at UC Merced, on average publish papers in leading journals and books with top university presses at the fastest rate in the system.
According to a study produced last...
UC Merced physicist Sayantani Ghosh has been given a CAREER Award to further her research into the dynamics of 'exotic' magnets
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Physics Professor Sayantani Ghosh has been awarded the...
UC Merced Professor Ignacio López-Calvo’s “Latino Los Angeles in Film and Fiction: The Cultural Production of Social Anxiety” will be published on Feb. 1 by the University of Arizona Press.
López-...
Two UC Merced literature professors have launched the campus' first online literary journal through University of California's eScholarship.
Professors Ignacio López-Calvoand Cristián H....
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