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Engineers Week Commemorated with In-person Events

February 16, 2023

Engineering gets its annual turn in the spotlight next week, and UC Merced is planning a number of events to celebrate. Engineers Week, often shortened to EWeek, was founded by the National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE) in 1951. This year, it takes place from Feb. 19-25 nationally. At UC...

Eaton's Research on Student Debt Highlighted in New York Review of Books Article

February 16, 2023

Sociology Professor Charlie Eaton's study of the relationships between financialization (the growing importance of financial markets, organizations and ideas) and growing inequalities in higher education across the U.S. was cited in a recent New York Review of Books article that highlights the late...

CIS Ph.D. Student Gains Confidence at NIH Internship

February 14, 2023

Cognitive and Information Sciences (CIS) Ph.D. student Ben Nguyen spent last summer working as a data analyst at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Nguyen was selected for the competitive fellowship through the nonprofit organization Coding it Forward, which brings early career technologists...

Alumna Credits UC Merced for Inspiring Her Interest in Cancer Research

February 13, 2023

After transferring from a Sacramento community college to UC Merced in 2007, Maxine Umeh-Garcia was unsure of her future career. She admits she hadn’t looked at the majors the newest UC offered before applying and imagined she’d teach high school math. She met with her academic advisor and learned...

Berhe Chosen for National Academy Membership in Recognition of Her Soil Research

February 9, 2023

Soil biogeochemistry Professor Asmeret Asefaw Berhe — who is on leave from UC Merced while she serves as federal director of the Office of Science for the Department of Energy — has been elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). Election to the NAE is among the highest...

Grant Will Fund Development of New, Technically Advanced Agriculture Workforce

February 8, 2023

As agriculture, California's most important industry, becomes increasingly technical, the workforce needed to sustain it will have to have different skills than those of a generation ago. A UC Merced researcher has been awarded a grant aimed at sparking interest and knowledge among disadvantaged...

Wilson Selected as a 2023 American Astronomical Society Fellow

February 8, 2023

Vice Chancellor for Research, Innovation and Economic Development Gillian Wilson has been named a 2023 American Astronomical Society (AAS) Fellow — the preeminent organization of professional astronomers in North America. “It is an honor for me to receive the recognition of my astronomy peers,...

Alumni Success Celebrated at Inaugural Math Event

February 7, 2023

The Department of Applied Mathematics, the Applied Mathematics Graduate Program and the student chapter of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) celebrated their many successful alumni recently by holding their inaugural Distinguished Alumni event and giving the Outstanding...

Matlock Receives International Cognitive Science Prize

February 6, 2023

Teenie Matlock, Cognitive and Information Sciences professor and the McClatchy Chair in Communications, has been awarded the fourth Jeffrey L. Elman Prize for Scientific Achievement and Community Building — one of the highest honors in the Cognitive Science Society. For Matlock, it’s a true honor...

Community and Labor Center's New Study Highlights Farmworkers' Health Challenges

February 3, 2023

A new landmark study by the UC Merced Community and Labor Center shows farmworkers across California are facing serious health challenges on a daily basis. The goal of the Farmworker Health Study was to examine agricultural worker health and well-being, in addition to health care access, local...