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Pre-Health Advising Program Prepares Future Health Professionals

June 5, 2019
Hundreds of students join the UC Merced campus each year intent on health-related careers. What they might not know, though, is that there are resources on campus that can be critical in helping them achieve their goals. “If it weren’t for the Pre-Health Advising program, I might not be where I am...

County Fair Provides Glimpse of University’s Mobile Maker Space

June 5, 2019
The county fair offers food and fun, and thanks to UC Merced, this year’s Merced County Fair will also feature an interactive space for kids to learn. UC Merced’s Mobile Maker Space is an innovative mobile science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) hub with hands-on activities and workshops...

UC Merced Undergrad Alumna Wins Fulbright, Will Study Health Disparities Among Indian Women

June 3, 2019
Akhila Yechuri is taking what she learned as an undergrad at UC Merced to Hyderabad, India, researching health disparities as the campus’s first undergrad to earn a Fulbright scholarship. “I'm so overwhelmed and excited,” she said. “This is really thrilling.” Yechuri studied public health and...

NCPC Workshop Empowers Stakeholders to Craft Compelling Anti-Smoking Policy Messages

June 3, 2019
The rate of smoking in the San Joaquin Valley is the highest in California — on par with tobacco-producing regions in Georgia and South Carolina — and UC Merced’s Nicotine and Cannabis Policy Center (NCPC) is determined to change that. The NCPC hosted a workshop on May 17 aiming to empower key...

Showcasing Success, Innovate to Grow Highlights Student Ingenuity

May 30, 2019
Wastewater methane reclamation for the City of Merced. Odor abatement in BART Plazas. Solar collection for oxygen generation on Mars. UC Merced campus drone tour. Skin test analyzer for Valley Fever patients. This might sound like a list of cutting-edge, high-tech inventions, which they are, but...

UC Solar Projects Bringing Lower Costs, Renewable Energy to Industry, Commerce and Homes

May 28, 2019
Three big UC Solar projects are poised to be the next big breakthroughs in low-cost, accessible sustainable commercial and residential energy in California and far beyond. Researchers are building working models of one project developed through a grant from the California Energy Commission for a...

Older and Wiser: 2009 Graduates Reflect on Instrumental UC Merced Education

May 23, 2019
A decade has passed since Sam Fong (’09) crossed the stage to get his diploma and walked through Beginnings for the first time as part of UC Merced’s inaugural graduating class, and a lot has changed. For one, the student population has quadrupled to nearly 8,000. The campus is in the midst of a...

SIAM Student Chapter Conference Unites Valley Regional Applied Mathematics Community

May 23, 2019
Oscillatory traffic patterns, the dynamics of micro swimmers and the use of deep neural networks in image reconstruction were just a few of the topics at the fourth annual Central Valley Regional Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Student Chapter Conference held at UC Merced this...

Lengthy Study Shows Value of Soil Health and Forest Restoration after Damaging Events

May 23, 2019
A nine-year experiment by a UC Merced Department of Life and Environmental Sciences professor and his colleagues is illuminating the importance of soil carbon in maintaining healthy and functioning ecosystems because of its influence on the microbial communities that live in soil. These...

UC Merced Receives Collaborative Grant to Improve Equity in STEM Education

May 22, 2019
At UC Merced, research and education are inextricably intertwined – in the lab and in the classroom. Professors continually refine and advance their teaching methods and curriculum to convey knowledge, and to build the critical thinking skills that last throughout a lifetime. Supporting these aims...

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