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Grant Funds Research into Fungal Structures

December 4, 2024
Mushrooms are pretty amazing. They are light and porous yet have a high strength-to-weight ratio. They are absorbent. They can serve as filters. Manufacturing a material that mimics mushrooms and other fungal structures could provide opportunities in any number of areas, ranging from aerospace...

Give to UC Merced 2024 to Launch on Giving Tuesday

December 2, 2024
On Dec. 3, the date of this year's Giving Tuesday, UC Merced will participate in the worldwide day of charitable giving by launching Give to UC Merced 2024. For the fifth year, the university's annual fundraising initiative will extend beyond its original 24-hour period to the entire month of...

LOS ANGELES TIMES: California farmers were big Trump backers. They may be on collision course over immigrant deportation

November 26, 2024

A Major Step Forward for UC Merced's Agricultural Experiment Station

November 25, 2024
The first four faculty members named to UC Merced's Agricultural Experiment Station look to make a big impact on farming in the San Joaquin Valley and beyond. Mechanical engineering Professor Reza Ehsani, civil and environmental engineering professors Safeeq Khan and Josué Medellìn-Azuara, and...

Study of Sugar Pines Reveals Urgent Issue in Protecting Forests from Climate Change

November 20, 2024
Sugar pines are the tallest pine species in the world, and they only grow along the West Coast of North America. They are a valued source of timber with cones as large as an adult’s forearm. But they face several problems that a new paper argues should be quickly addressed. The sugar pine...

LOS ANGELES TIMES: Political stress: Can you stay engaged without sacrificing your mental health?

November 20, 2024

Summit Aims to Ease the Path for Transfer Students

November 18, 2024
Between 70% and 80% of students who start classes at community colleges plan to transfer to four-year universities. But only between 20% and 30% do. In California, that number is closer to the lower end of that spectrum, a University of Wisconsin researcher told a room full of higher education...

FRESNO BEE: Why did Donald Trump win Fresno County? ‘People just voted their pocketbook’

November 17, 2024

Spendlove Prize Winner Brings Spirit of Ubuntu to UC Merced

November 14, 2024
Tsitsi Dangarembga spread the spirit of ubuntu over UC Merced on Wednesday night, imparting its message of “how we can be good people who live well together.” Dangarembga, a Zimbabwean filmmaker, writer and activist, is the 16th recipient of the Alice and Clifford Spendlove Prize in Social...

Ending Health Disparities Starts with Good Data, National Authority Says

November 14, 2024
  Solid and sharable research data must go hand in hand with collaboration and caring to tackle the health gaps that trouble minoritized and underserved populations in the San Joaquin Valley and elsewhere. That was the main message from a national leader in minority health care disparities during a...

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