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Research Paper Explores how the Type of Renewable Energy Affects the Needs for Energy Storage
03/13/2023
As more renewable energy projects take hold in California, there is more need for effective ways to store that energy. A paper published by a UC Merced research team examines how the need for storage can vary for different combinations of renewable resources. Zabir Mahmud and his team published...
California Storms Create Paradox
03/10/2023
Ph.D. Student Named an American Farmland Trust Research Fellow
03/08/2023
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...
Student Researchers Working with National Lab on Mercury Remediation
03/08/2023
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...
How Universities Became Giant Piggy Banks for Billionaires
03/08/2023
Ryals’ Teaching, Research and Service Earns Her Presidential Chair in Climate Change
03/06/2023
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
03/02/2023
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
03/02/2023
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 “...
Why Politics Makes Us Depressed - And What We Can Do
02/20/2023
What Do Elite Colleges Do With All That Endowment Money?
02/17/2023

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