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Where Did Sierra Snow Go This Spring?
06/23/2021
From Earth to Space and Back Again: Solar Samples Show Surprising Results
06/17/2021
When physics graduate student William Delmas made samples of solar energy harvesting perovskite films two years ago, he had no idea that this summer, he’d be analyzing those same samples after they made a round trip to the International Space Station (ISS). “It’s really cool to see this come full...
Engineering Professor Awarded $1 Million NSF Award to Study Protein Folding
06/16/2021
Proteins operate like biological machines, regulating nearly every major function and organ in our bodies through a still-mysterious shape-shifting process. Bioengineering graduate group chair Professor Victor Muñoz has a new $1,082,356 award from the National Science Foundation to unlock those...
MacKenzie Scott Gifts $20 Million to UC Merced
06/16/2021
The Latest Tool in Fighting Wildfires: Homes That Won't Burn
06/15/2021
Humans Might be Making Genetic Evolution Obsolete
06/14/2021
Black Women Owe 22% More in Student Debt than White Women
06/14/2021
How the Virus Unraveled Hispanic American Families
06/14/2021
Staff Members’ Daughter Raises $1,000 to Plant New Trees
06/10/2021
A core tenet of UC Merced’s mission is public service, something staffers Tom and Esmeralda Martinez know all about thanks to their daughter. On June 5, Merced natives the Martinezes and their 7-year-old daughter, Adison, worked alongside community members and city leaders to clean up Rahilly Park...
Rotary District Scholar to Conduct Sanitation Research in Haiti
06/09/2021
With COVID-19 protections lifting, many people are eager to travel again. Among them is graduate student Elena Bischak, who is planning multiple trips to Haiti in the coming months to study improving sanitation and human waste processing in the Caribbean country. Bischak is a third-year...

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