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Campus Celebrates 20th Anniversary of Groundbreaking
01/25/2023
Solar Projects Yielding Exciting Potential for Dairies, Other Industries
01/24/2023
A company started by UC Merced founding faculty member Roland Winston - and staffed by alumni - is looking for partners for some exciting solar projects. And the government could cover the costs. Winston Cone Optics seeks to develop pilot projects that use solar energy to heat water, evaporate...
Findlater First at UC Merced to Join DOE-funded Energy Frontier Research Center
01/23/2023
Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a greenhouse gas that is contributing to irreversible climate change. Scientists know how to capture CO2, and they know how to transform it into useful molecules and materials. But that transformation is neither energy nor cost-effective. Through a prestigious grant from the...
A Central Valley Community Lost Its Only Hospital
01/20/2023
UC Merced’s Shines In Annual Sustainability Report
01/20/2023
In the 2022 Sustainable Campus Index, UC Merced placed Top 10 in several categories including a tie for the No.1 spot in research. The annual report published by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) recognizes top-performing colleges and universities...
UC Merced-led Research to Focus on Reducing Power Needed for Computing
01/11/2023
Computer technology has exploded in recent years and is only going to keep growing, with ever more use of artificial intelligence and connected devices that communicate, or the Internet of Things. A UC Merced researcher recently won a grant aimed at helping to learn how to reduce the amount of...
UC Awards $16.4 Million in Grants to Address Climate, Energy and Health
01/09/2023
For the first time, UC Merced faculty members from each of the campus’s three schools have been chosen as principal investigators on some of the 21 exciting new projects that are being funded through UC’s Multicampus Research Programs and Initiatives (MRPI). In addition, UC Merced researchers are...
Week of Storms Tests California’s Approach to Taming Nature
01/05/2023
Innovate to Grow Expands to Include, Inspire First-Year Students
01/05/2023
Innovate to Grow is a twice-yearly celebration of student ingenuity hosted by the School of Engineering (SoE). In a way, it's a science fair for college students to help solve problems that businesses and nonprofit organizations face, and potentially gain partnerships to see their projects...

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