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...
Graduate Students
Graduate school is a constant state of discovery, something UC Merced alumna Jackie Shay credits for her current passion: fungus.
Shay just returned home from a month in the humid climes of...
California’s drought is a major topic, including on the UC Merced campus.
It will be among the subjects explored during this year’s Research Week, from March 10 through 14. The annual event...
People’s attitudes could affect the amount of information they share, said UC Merced researchers who studied a massive chunk of Yelp business review data.
Ph.D. student David Vinson and Professor...
Two UC Merced graduate students will continue their research into world heritage with the support of prestigious Marie Curie Fellowships.
Fabrizio Galeazzi and Paola Di Giuseppantonio Di Franco were...
Katherine Amrine knows a few things about data analysis.
As a UC Merced graduate student, her dissertation described a new way of classifying living things from bits of data gleaned from whole...
The heat generated by smartphones and other electronic devices could be harnessed to also power them, according to compelling research out of the University of California, Merced.
Physics Professor...
The University of California, Merced, has selected CEO of Enduring Hydro LLC and former U.S. Undersecretary for Energy Kristina Johnson and Merced County Superior Court Judge Paul C. Lo to deliver...
A day off meant a day of service for some UC Merced students and staff and faculty members who volunteered to help spruce up Luther Burbank Elementary School in Merced as part of the 2014 Martin...
UC Merced political science professors publish in leading journals and with top university presses at a rate that outpaces just about every other elite institution.
The finding — an example of the...
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