UC Merced public health Professor Maria-Elena De Trinidad Young has been awarded an R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The $3 million grant will fund Young's ambitious, five-year research project to understand how immigration policy influences health care access and the... Read More
Three UC Merced researchers have recently received the prestigious Hellman Fellowship: Computer science and engineering Professor Shijia Pan, economics Professor Briana Ballis and environmental engineering Professor Xuan Zhang have all been named Hellman Fellows.
Kristina Backer joined UC Merced as an Assistant Professor in 2018. Prior to arriving at UC Merced, she earned her PhD from the University of Toronto and subsequently completed postdoctoral research at the University of... Click Here to Read More
Grace is a first generation college student from Jackson, California. Her studies as an anthropology major have an emphasis on archaeology, and she plans on applying to graduate school and getting her Master's degree. After graduating, her goal is to go into a career as a cultural... Click Here to Read More
UpstART (formerly ARTS UC Merced Presents) is a faculty-directed arts organization at UC Merced. UpstART's mission is to bring diverse and exciting arts programming to our campus and local community.