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Campus Curtailment Notification

December 8, 2021

IACUC Protocol Submission The IACUC office will be closed Thursday, December 23, 2021 through Monday, January 3, 2022. The office will reopen for business on Tuesday, January 4, 2022. Please note: All review items must be submitted by December 20, 2021 in order to be reviewed at the January 7...

Study: Many Immigrants Perceive Racial Discrimination at Work, in Health Care

November 15, 2021

In recently published reports, Department of Public Health Professor Maria-Elena Young, Public Health doctoral student Sharon Tafolla and colleagues at UCLA discovered that Latino and Asian immigrants in California have varied perceptions and experiences in the workplace, encountering law or...

Interaction of Faces, Postures and Scenes Affect Emotion Perception, Study Shows

November 9, 2021

What happens if you take a person's happy face, put it on an angry-looking body and place that in front of a disgusting scene? What do people see? What emotion do people perceive when you mix and match these different cues? These are some of the questions Department of Psychological Sciences...

UC Merced Leads Innovative Effort to Secure Water for Agriculture and Ecosystems

October 6, 2021

UC Merced’s largest research grant in its 16-year history aims to improve agricultural and environmental water resilience. The new $10 million collaborative focuses on water banking, trading and improvements in data-driven management practices to arrive at a climate-resilient future in water-scarce...

Staff Members’ Daughter Raises $1,000 to Plant New Trees

June 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...

Annual Faculty Agency Trip Is Held Virtually

May 28, 2021

Every year, the Office of Research Development (ORD) a unit within the Office of Research and Economic Development (ORED) facilitates a Faculty Agency Trip to Washington, D.C. The trips consist of one-on-one meetings with agency program personnel. Faculty discuss their research concepts and explore...

UC Merced Ph.D. Student Wins UC Grad Slam Competition

May 7, 2021

Applied Mathematics graduate student Shayna Bennett won first place at the University of California’s Grad Slam finals today (May 7). Bennett presented her dissertation research, “A New Tool to Fight Invasive Species,” in just three minutes and won $7,000 and the systemwide trophy — known as the...

$2.2M NIH Grant Designed to Produce Highly Trained, Diverse Ph.D. Workforce

April 28, 2021

A five-year, $2.2 million training grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will assist UC Merced with the development of diverse cohorts of doctoral students in interdisciplinary biomedical disciplines. Twelve trainees each academic year will benefit from NIH’s longstanding Graduate...

Prestigious Biennial Grant Program Includes Funding for Ag-labor and Wildfire Research

January 14, 2021

Two new projects designed and led by UC Merced researchers will address challenges facing many Californians — wildfire recovery and agricultural labor — but will also have global reach. Both are funded through the University of California’s prestigious Multicampus Research Programs and Initiatives...