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Campus Celebrates Earth Day in a Big Way

April 20, 2015
With a carnival, movie and other events, this year’s Earth Day festivities are shaping up to be bigger, more fun and more educational than ever. UC Merced’s annual celebration of the 45-year-old day of observance is always a big deal on this green campus. But this year, the new Earth Day Planning...

Campus Celebrates UC Natural Reserve System on Protected Lands

April 16, 2015
Research, teaching and public outreach were all on display today at UC Merced’s celebration of the University of California Natural Reserve System’s 50th anniversary. The inaugural celebration of the 39-reserve system’s golden anniversary featured a driving tour of the Merced Vernal Pools and...

NPR | Not All Almonds Are Equal When It Comes To Water Use

April 16, 2015
Professor Joshua Viers says determining how much water almonds use is complex and dependent on topography, geography, soil nutrients and irrigation.

Journalist to Speak on Immigration at Campus Conference

April 15, 2015
Journalist Roberto Lovato will give the keynote address this week at “Blurring the Border: Deporting Denizens in the 21st Century,” an interdisciplinary conference on immigration, deportation and citizenship in the United States. The conference, which is free and open to the public, will be held...

Study: Real-World Negotiators Bargain More Fairly

April 15, 2015
Experienced policymakers are more likely to make fair offers in bargaining than the average person, and less likely to accept low offers — even if it means both sides get nothing.  Such were the findings of a recent study coauthored by UC Merced political scientist Brad LeVeck, whose research uses...

Two Grad Students Earn Prestigious NSF Fellowships

April 14, 2015
UC Merced graduate students Theo Crouch II and Lauren Edwards recently were awarded fellowships from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP). Jessica Ross was recognized as an honorable mention by the GRFP, while Patricia Cabral received an honorable...

Three Students Chosen to Further Carbon Neutrality Efforts

April 13, 2015
Three UC Merced undergraduates are the recipients of a new fellowship under University of California President Janet Napolitano’s Carbon Neutrality Initiative. Through the President’s Sustainability Student Fellowship/Internship Program, the students — Adriana Gomez, 18, a freshman from Sacramento...

Floodplain Management Can Increase Groundwater Supply

April 9, 2015
California’s groundwater is being rapidly depleted because cities and farms extract more than is replenished naturally, compacting local aquifers and decreasing supply in some places in the Central Valley. And, it turns out, levees placed along rivers in the late 1800s and early 1900s to protect...

Environmental Systems Student Wins Inaugural GradSLAM! Event

April 9, 2015
This week marked the end of the first-ever UC Merced GradSLAM! competition, in which graduate students were given just three minutes to present their research to a panel of non-specialist judges with the goal of increasing the students’ communication skills and ability to effectively present their...

Cognitive Science Student Earns IBM Ph.D. Fellowship

April 8, 2015
UC Merced graduate student David Vinson recently obtained an intensely competitive IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Award, which will provide $30,000 to support his research in computational social science through the 2015-16 academic year. He will also work with an IBM mentor over the course of the year....

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