

UC Merced participated in a new gathering designed to ensure University of California research is informed by and benefits local, regional and national community members.
The Community Engagement Retreat brought together leaders, researchers, and community partners from across the UC system, the state of California and the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Science.
Public health Professor...
Charah Coleman, the program manager for the at UC Merced's Financial Wellness Center, has been selected to receive the 2025 Central Valley Trailblazer Award. For sixteen years, the African American Historical and Cultural Museum has hosted the Trailblazer Award event to recognize the achievements of those who have paved the way for progress and continue to uplift and empower others.
According to event organizer Lataria Hall, Coleman was selected for her tireless...
Pictured: UC Merced students are all smiles after taking first place.
A team of undergraduate students (Alton Chao, Erika Maquiling, Edmund Chao, Shyam Gupta, Roshan Sanjeev) and visiting graduate student (Tonko Bossen) from Ross Greer's Machine Intelligence, Interaction, and Imagination (Mi3) Laboratory won First Place in the Navigation Instruction Generation Challenge at the "Accessibility, Vision, and Autonomy Workshop" at the...
In his book debut, a UC Merced professor challenges the common narrative that adoption is mainly an act of love that benefits the adoptees, adoptive parents and birth parents, especially in cases that cross racial lines and national borders.
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See MoreA Braitenberg vehicle travels the realms of science. Sometimes it’s real, sometimes it’s not. Either way, its simple designs help researchers see how an agent’s interaction with its environment can produce complex, seemingly intelligent behavior such...
See MorePublic Health fifth-year Ph.D. candidate Kesia Garibay has a new first-authored article titled, “Examining the Role and Strategies of Advocacy Coalitions in...
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