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UpstART Concert Season Promises Eclectic Mix of Music

October 8, 2024
Every year, UC Merced’s UpstART music series ignites the senses by bringing far-ranging genres to the stages. In 2024-25, take a seat for acts ranging from revolutionary mariachi and hip hop/Caribbean/Latin fusion to an improvising, story-weaving cellist … for a start. “The goal of the series is to...

Sex, radiation and mummies: How farms are fighting a pesky almond moth without pesticides

October 7, 2024

UC Merced Leads $6.5 Million Initiative to Reduce Promotion and Tenure Bias Against Black and Hispanic Faculty

October 4, 2024
Black and Hispanic faculty members seeking promotion at research universities face career-damaging biases, with their scholarly production judged more harshly than that of their peers, according to a groundbreaking initiative co-led by UC Merced that aims to uncover the roots of these biases and...

Interactive Database Tracks 116 Years of U.S. Housing Prices, Offers Insights for Future

October 2, 2024
A groundbreaking database that tracks 13 decades of annual changes in U.S. home sales and rental prices provides a clearer picture of economic shifts through the 20th century and will be a valuable resource for homebuyers, housing policymakers and the real estate industry, a UC Merced researcher...

UC Merced Earns Seal of Excelencia Recertification For Advancing Latino Student Success

October 1, 2024
In recognition for its continuing efforts to advance Latino student success, UC Merced has earned recertification of the prestigious Seal of Excelencia. The Seal is a national certification for institutions that strive to go beyond enrollment and more intentionally serve Latino students. The...

Ph.D. Student Named as 2024 Dole Caregiver Fellow

September 27, 2024
Karla Seijas is one of 14 individuals selected from across the nation as an Elizabeth Dole Foundation Caregiver Fellow. The Elizabeth Dole Foundation supports a community of more than 5.5 million spouses, parents, family members and loved ones who provide care to wounded, ill and injured service...

UC Merced Unveils Big Rufus, a Monument to Resilience, Diversity and Hope

September 26, 2024
UC Merced on Wednesday unveiled a striking monument to a university on the rise. A crowd of students, faculty and staff gathered in the early evening’s long shadows at University Plaza to get their first look at Big Rufus, a 10-foot-long bronze vision of UC Merced’s bobcat mascot. The sculpture...

New SSHA Dean Thanks Helping Hands Along a Remarkable Journey

September 24, 2024
He studied in hallowed halls of academia. His highly respected research takes him halfway around the globe into societies both foreign and familiar. In his newest role, he leads the largest school of a research university less than two decades old but soaring in reputation and influence. Yet if...

UC Merced and San Luis & Delta-Mendota Water Authority Execute Partnership Agreement that Opens Exciting Opportunities

September 23, 2024
A new five-year pilot study to place solar panels on the water in the Delta-Mendota Canal is just the beginning of a formal working relationship between UC Merced and the San Luis & Delta-Mendota Water Authority. The two entities signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Friday, agreeing to work...

UC Merced, San Luis & Delta-Mendota Water Authority Sign Partnership that Opens Exciting Opportunities

September 23, 2024
A new five-year pilot study to place solar panels on the water in the Delta-Mendota Canal is just the beginning of a formal working relationship between UC Merced and the San Luis & Delta-Mendota Water Authority. The two entities signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Friday, agreeing to work...

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