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UC Merced Filmmaker Turns Inward for Meditation on Conflict and Loss

December 4, 2024
Filmmaker and UC Merced Professor Yehuda Sharim recently completed an autobiographical project that is an intimate contemplation of his childhood home in Israel, where visits with his aging father are juxtaposed with the conflict and violence engulfing the Middle East. “I don’t...

UC Students Tackle Tech-Centered Challenges in CITRIS Summer Internships

December 3, 2024
Efosa Omorogieva, a third-year computer science and engineering major at UC Merced, spent her summer using data to help transform items such as stalks and husks leftover after harvest into usable products for rural communities. Omorogieva interned at technology startup Takachar as a member of...

Give to UC Merced 2024 to Launch on Giving Tuesday

December 2, 2024
On Dec. 3, the date of this year's Giving Tuesday, UC Merced will participate in the worldwide day of charitable giving by launching Give to UC Merced 2024. For the fifth year, the university's annual fundraising initiative will extend beyond its original 24-hour period to the entire month...

Grant Will Cover Tuition for Community Health Worker Program

November 27, 2024
A new program aimed at training people to be community health workers has already gotten an important boost: a grant to cover scholarships for some attendees. The Community Health Worker Specialized Training Certificate program was introduced earlier this year as a partnership of UC Merced...

LOS ANGELES TIMES: California farmers were big Trump backers. They may be on collision course over immigrant deportation

November 26, 2024

A Major Step Forward for UC Merced's Agricultural Experiment Station

November 25, 2024
The first four faculty members named to UC Merced's Agricultural Experiment Station look to make a big impact on farming in the San Joaquin Valley and beyond. Mechanical engineering Professor Reza Ehsani, civil and environmental engineering professors Safeeq Khan and Josué Medellìn-...

Medical Education at UC Merced Grows; Adds New Students, Faculty

November 21, 2024
Medical education at UC Merced is expanding at a rapid pace as part of the campus’ long-term goal to address the shortage of physicians and health care professionals in the Central Valley. This fall, the university welcomed the second cohort of students in the B.S.-to-M.D. pathway....

Agencies, Local Stakeholders Must Collaborate to Restore Wildlands

November 21, 2024
As wildfires grow in intensity and frequency, it's vital that agencies and local stakeholders work together to rehabilitate and restore resilience to wildlands in California. This finding is underscored in a paper in the journal Restoration Ecology published in October by UC Merced...

Bobcats Bring Valley’s Love for Soccer to a National Stage

November 21, 2024
The significance of soccer in the San Joaquin Valley cannot be overstated. It’s a sport that connects communities, bridges borders and stretches across generations of fathers and mothers and daughters and sons. So it is fitting that the Valley’s youngest university has already...

Study of Sugar Pines Reveals Urgent Issue in Protecting Forests from Climate Change

November 20, 2024
Sugar pines are the tallest pine species in the world, and they only grow along the West Coast of North America. They are a valued source of timber with cones as large as an adult’s forearm. But they face several problems that a new paper argues should be quickly addressed. The sugar pine...

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