Five UC Merced faculty members are among the first awardees of a UC-wide honor given for exemplary research in budding academic careers.
The Early Career Faculty Research Excellence Awards, launched last fall, support commitment to scholarship and creative activity across the 10-campus system....
Life and Environmental Sciences
Students who arrive at UC Merced planning on specific careers often discover along the way that their interests — and strengths — are broader than they first imagined.
A new initiative...
Avinav Biswas, a third‑year undergraduate majoring in biological sciences at UC Merced, has been named a 2026 Barry M. Goldwater Scholar, becoming the university’s first recipient of one of the...
Professors Asmeret Asefaw Berhe and Ming-Hsuan Yang have been named 2025 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general scientific society and...
On most days, Reo Maynard’s life swings between two ecosystems: the microscopic world inside an ant’s gut and the sprawling one that stretches from Fresno to the Sierra Nevada mountains...
Although the oceans are the least explored places on the planet, even their depths are not untouched by humans.
Drawing on more than 2,300 seawater samples collected across the Pacific, Atlantic...
UC Merced researchers are collaborating on a two-year research project to develop effective composting methods for cotton textiles.
The project explores manufacturing cotton waste scraps from...
When Professor Asmeret Asefaw Berhe arrived at UC Merced in 2009, she and her husband, Professor Teamrat Ghezzehei, were leaving major research institutions to join a brand-new campus in California...
As nations cut emissions that once fueled urban smog, scientists are discovering unexpected chemistry taking place in the atmosphere.
UC Merced Professor Xuan Zhang is leading a project to uncover...
As the Hellman Fellowships celebrate their 30th year, three more researchers, one from each of UC Merced’s schools, have joined the prestigious ranks of recipients.
Electrical engineering...
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