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New NASA-Affiliated Center Opening at UC Merced

June 15, 2015
MERCED, Calif. — NASA has awarded a group of researchers at the University of California, Merced, $5 million to establish the campus’s largest extramurally funded research and education center to date, designed to benefit current and future students and contribute to NASA’s missions. School of...

TakePart | Replanting America: 90 Percent of What We Eat Could Come From Local Farms

June 11, 2015
Professor Elliott Campbell discusses a study that shows nearly all Americans could survive on food from sources within 100 miles of their location.

Biomedical Researcher Named Campus's First Pew Scholar

June 11, 2015
Professor Clarissa J. Nobile of the University of California, Merced, is one of 22 researchers named today as a Pew Biomedical Scholar for her work exploring how communities of microbes conspire to cause disease. Nobile is the first UC Merced researcher to win a Pew scholar award, and she joins the...

Interdisciplinary Spirit Pays Off for Grad Student

June 9, 2015
One of the things that attracted Chelsea Coe to UC Merced as an undergraduate student was the opportunity to do research. She transferred to UC Merced during her junior year and worked in Professor Teenie Matlock’s interactive cognition lab for the rest of her undergraduate career. When she decided...

Athletics Honored with Cal Pac Awards

June 8, 2015
Long hours and hard work paid off for UC Merced’s intercollegiate athletics program last week when the California Pacific Conference’s 2014-15 awards were announced. For the first time in conference history, one school earned every departmental award. UC Merced Director of Recreation and Athletics...

Researcher Wins Fulbright Award to Study Himalayan Hydropower

June 3, 2015
UC Merced researcher David Rheinheimer has seen the Himalayas from many angles — from his home on the Yangtze River, from the foothills as a student in India and from the Nu River in Yunnan’s Three Parallel Rivers area. But as a 2015-16 Fulbright scholar, Rheinheimer will spend the coming year...

Most Americans Could Eat Locally, Research Shows

June 1, 2015
MERCED, Calif. — New farmland-mapping research published today shows that up to 90 percent of Americans could be fed entirely by food grown or raised within 100 miles of their homes. Professor Elliott Campbell, with the University of California, Merced, School of Engineering, discusses the...

Professor Joins Major New Robotics Initiative

May 29, 2015
UC Merced Professor Stefano Carpin will serve on the executive board of a new multidisciplinary research enterprise called the People and Robots Initiative, by the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS). The initiative will support efforts by faculty members...

Campus Community Aids in Voting Push for Area Bike Trail

May 27, 2015
Merced is conveniently located in the middle of everything. Whether one seeks the beach, the mountains or the city, the destination lies little more than two hours away. Thanks to a committed group of outdoor enthusiasts, however, the adventure of extreme off-road cycling could soon be much closer...

Students Take Lead in Helping Campus Go Green

May 20, 2015
Students Gabriel Morabe and Hoaithi “Thi” Dang share a love of green — the color that makes for a better campus and stronger planet. Morabe, a junior, and Dang, a freshman, are devoted to sustainability at UC Merced and beyond. Both have led impressive efforts to conserve water, power and more on...

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