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How a Sapling and a Viral Candy Made California the World’s Pistachio King
04/02/2026
Sparse Snowpack In California Fuels Concern Over Fast-Approaching Fire Season
04/01/2026
Bioengineering Professor Among Senate District’s ‘Women Who Inspire’
03/31/2026
State Sen. Anna Caballero recently honored UC Merced bioengineering Professor Sushma Shrinivasan among the “Women Who Inspire” in 2026 for District 14. According to the senator’s office, Shrinivasan was honored for her continued contributions to education and for serving as an inspiration to girls...
Commuter Student Finds Belonging at UC Merced
03/31/2026
Most weekdays, civil engineering major Jacqueline Garcia travels 45 minutes each way from her hometown of Hughson to attend classes at UC Merced. “The perk is being able to pursue my undergraduate degree while still having a tie to home. It's been great having the campus here in the Valley,” she...
Fire season fears grow amid western heat wave
03/27/2026
Two UC Merced Researchers Among This Year’s AAAS Fellows
03/26/2026
Professors Asmeret Asefaw Berhe and Ming-Hsuan Yang have been named 2025 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals. They are among the nearly 500 scientists, engineers and...
CalTeach and Local Schools Team Up to Energize Learning across Merced County
03/23/2026
UC Merced’s CalTeach program is opening new pathways for younger students to experience hands-on science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) learning, academic support and early exposure to a college environment. The CalTeach program, present at every UC campus that offers undergraduate...
Toloma 5K to Celebrate Native Heritage, Community at UC Merced
03/19/2026
UC Merced’s Division of Equity, Justice, and Inclusive Excellence will bring campus and community together Saturday, March 21 for the annual Toloma 5K, a morning run and walk that celebrates Native heritage, community connection and the relationship between Indigenous peoples and the land. The run/...
Ripon Student Turning Heart and Heritage into a Path of Healing
03/19/2026
As a child of the Central Valley and a member of a Native tribe, Grace Grinder developed an early awareness of health care disparities affecting rural regions and underserved communities. While in third grade, Grinder lost her grandmother to what she described as too few physicians nearby to...
Ants, Endurance and a Ph.D. at the Finish Line
03/18/2026
On most days, Reo Maynard’s life swings between two ecosystems: the microscopic world inside an ant’s gut and the sprawling one that stretches from Fresno to the Sierra Nevada mountains. The 51-year-old Navy veteran, dad of two, screenwriter-in-waiting and newly minted Fresno City College faculty...

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