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Student Philanthropy Month Puts Spotlight on Giving Back to UC Merced and Community

March 23, 2023
For the second year, UC Merced's Student Alumni Association (SAA) and Office of Alumni Relations have partnered to host Student Philanthropy Month in March. The monthlong initiative is dedicated to building a culture of philanthropy and awareness at UC Merced. Through events and fundraising...

Campus Visit Broadens Mexican Research Collaborations

March 21, 2023
When three buses rolled onto campus on one chilly winter morning, UC Merced gave the occupants a warm Bobcat welcome. More than 100 undergraduate students and faculty members from Universidad Autónoma Chapingo — an agricultural institution in Texcoco, Mexico — visited the UC Merced campus on March...

Women Make History at UC Merced

March 8, 2023
Innumerable changes have come to UC Merced since ground was broken for the campus in 2002. Some of the women who helped found the campus and remain employed by UC Merced, reflected recently on the changes in the university and themselves for Women's History Month. Tammy Johnson, summer session...

Student Researchers Working with National Lab on Mercury Remediation

March 8, 2023
At UC Merced, mercury is a regional challenge that student and faculty researchers have been tackling for several years. Mercury was used to extract gold during the Gold Rush in California, and the element was also mined at the New Almaden site, at one time the second-largest mercury mine in the...

Ph.D. Student Named an American Farmland Trust Research Fellow

March 8, 2023
Fourth year Environmental Systems Ph.D. student Elena Bischak has been named a research fellow by the American Farmland Trust (AFT). The AFT Research Fellows Program aims to “empower the next generation of university-trained leaders to create meaningful positive change toward a new conventional...

$1M Award Will Fund Work to Fight Climate Change

March 7, 2023
A $1 million grant from the University of California (UC) Office of the President will fund opportunities for UC Merced researchers to make significant impacts on climate change - fast. The award, announced Wednesday, March 1, is part of $100 million designated to the University of California in...

Ryals’ Teaching, Research and Service Earns Her Presidential Chair in Climate Change

March 6, 2023
Professor Rebecca Ryals has made campus history by being named UC Merced’s inaugural Presidential Chair in Climate Change. The appointment was recommended by her peers and Dean Betsy Dumont from the School of Natural Sciences in recognition of Ryals’ outstanding research, teaching and service....

Study Finds Childhood Exposure to Weed Killer May Increase Risk of Disease in Young Adulthood

March 2, 2023
Children who are exposed to glyphosate, the most widely used herbicide worldwide, may suffer from liver inflammation and metabolic disorder in early adulthood, according to a new study by a team that includes Public Health Chair and Professor Asa Bradman. The study, published in the journal...

Research Week Highlights Solutions to Urgent Environmental Issues

March 2, 2023
It's time for the campus and the community to celebrate UC Merced’s high-level research during Research Week, March 6 through 10. The annual research showcase, hosted by the Office of Research and Economic Development, kicks off with a Health Sciences Research Institute (HSRI) event titled “...

Award-winning Films Connecting ‘Unseen’ Communities Around the World

March 1, 2023
Global Arts Studies Professor Yehuda Sharim ’s film “El Ojo Comienza en la Mano,” a documentary about a Central Valley farm worker who never gave up his love of painting, has been garnering awards and nominations around the world since it came out in 2022. The son of working-class agricultural...

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