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UC System Admits Its Largest, Most Diverse Class
07/19/2021
Professor’s Drive to Help the Community Gets Underway for 13th Year
07/15/2021
Merced is a community with a lot of poverty, made worse with the Great Recession in 2009 and the COVID-19 pandemic. To help people in need, Professor Patti LiWang has been leading a diaper and toilet paper drive for the past 12 years. “When we moved here, the recession hit. It was hard for us, a...
Numbers Explain How and Why West Bakes, Burns and Dries Out
07/15/2021
We're Creating the Conditions for a New Dust Bowl
07/15/2021
Those Not Vaccinated: No time or 'enormously selfish'?
07/14/2021
Campus Wastewater Testing Offers COVID-19 Early Warning System, Establishes Protocols for the Future
07/08/2021
COVID-19 upended life as we know it, especially among the science community. While some scientists rushed to develop a vaccine, others sought a better understanding of the virus, hoping to predict where the next outbreak might be in order to better contain it. At UC Merced, this included testing...
Opinion: Normal May Be a Long Way Off for Immunocompromised
07/06/2021
All Coral Cells Grown in a Dish for the First Time
07/05/2021
Strauss Foundation Winner, Recent Grad Works to Improve Wheelchair Accessibility
06/29/2021
In July, Joseph Bello will present his findings for the prestigious Donald A. Strauss Foundation scholarship to United Spinal, the longstanding nonprofit dedicated to overcoming the stigma of disability and increasing inclusivity for wheelchair users. It has taken months of work to prepare, but...
Ph.D. Student Named Underrepresented Chemist of Color by Merck
06/25/2021
Chemistry and Chemical Biology graduate student Ali Abou Taka is one of 12 students to receive the inaugural Merck Research Award for Underrepresented Chemists of Color. Abou Taka, a Ph.D. student in Professor Hrant Hratchian’s lab, studies the transition of metal complexes that play a critical...

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