UC Merced doctoral candidate Adekunle “Kunle” Adewole has been selected as a 2026 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings Fellow.
Adewole was also chosen as one of 18 participants in the Baden-Württemberg International Post Meeting Programme for Young Scientists.
“I keenly...
Research

UC Merced Professor Kara McCloskey was recently awarded a highly competitive $500,000 grant to continue tackling significant, unresolved issues in human stem cell biology, as part of an effort to...

Valley fever, described as a “silent epidemic” by the Centers for Disease Control, will be explored through a series of wide-ranging talks at the University of California, Merced.
Twelve lectures...

A $1 increase in university spending generates an 89 cent increase in local noneducation labor income — evidence of a measurable spillover effect created by public research institutions, according to...

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...

Like many children on long car trips, Erin Mutch often asked “Where are we?” But instead of telling her, Mutch’s parents gave her a map to figure it out.
Mutch’s knack for using maps to tell bigger...

University of California, Merced, was chosen as one of a dozen campuses across the nation to bring to life a new program designed to inculcate innovation and entrepreneurship in undergraduate...

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...



