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Recruiting Team Says UC Merced Makes the Hunt for Talent Unique

April 23, 2020
Ro McKinney’s first catch for UC Merced was her favorite. McKinney, a member of Human Resources’ talent recruitment team, was tasked with finding a biologist. Specifically, a biologist certified to monitor more than 7,000 acres of grasslands and vernal pools. A biologist capable of working with and...

Q&A with Economist Greg Wright: COVID-19’s Impact on the Economy

April 23, 2020
Since the onset of many governors’ stay-at-home orders, there are fewer cars on the road as fewer people are driving to work. While some people can work from home, sadly, some are not working at all. The global pandemic has caused record unemployment in the United States and the future of the...

How 'Bout Them Apples? Engineers Correlate Friction to Texture

April 20, 2020
Think about biting into a fresh apple. What do you perceive? Is it juicy? Sweet? Tart? Crisp? Now remember how unpleasant it is to bite into mealy apple flesh. Vineland Research and Innovation Centre, a horticulture science and technology enterprise in Canada, is trying to prevent that...

Grad Students Take on Big Roles to Promote Campus Diversity

April 17, 2020
Dania Matos has been at UC Merced for less than a year but is making a big impact as the university’s first chief diversity officer. Now two graduate students with small-town roots are helping Matos amplify her message of equity and justice — a message made more urgent by the COVID-19 pandemic....

Earth Day Talk Focuses on Ag Land and Water Regulations, Solutions

April 17, 2020
The Center for Information Technology in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) and UC Merced’s Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Graduate Group present an online talk for the golden anniversary of Earth Day. Joel Kimmelshue, Ph.D., a founding partner and the principal soil and agriculture...

Babies Forage for Sounds That Contribute to Language Acquisition, Study Shows

April 16, 2020
Most people wouldn’t think physics has anything to do with baby babble and human language development. But most people aren’t Ritwika Vallomparambath PanikkasserySugasree. The graduate student, who prefers to go by her first name, specializes in computational biophysics but likes...

Grad Student Aids Campus’s Move to Remote Teaching

April 15, 2020
When UC Merced began transitioning to emergency remote instruction in late March, hoping to lessen the spread of COVID-19, Jackie Shay didn’t waste any time jumping in to help her fellow teaching assistants (TA) make the shift. Teaching remotely isn’t new for Shay, a Quantitative and Systems...

UC Merced Professor Arias Wins Guggenheim Fellowship

April 10, 2020
Arturo Arias, a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation professor in the Humanities at UC Merced, has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for his ground-breaking study of contemporary indigenous novels from Guatemala and Mexico. Arias was one of 173 American and Canadian fellows announced...

Top 10 Finalists Advance in UC Merced’s Grad Slam

April 6, 2020
Although COVID-19 has changed everyone’s plans this spring, Graduate Division staff members rallied to make sure the campus’s annual Grad Slam competition — showcasing graduate student research — continued as planned. This year’s qualifying round was different than previous years. Each of the...

COVID-19 More Likely to Impact Smokers and People Exposed to Secondhand Smoke, Report Finds

April 2, 2020
Smokers and former smokers are not only more susceptible to COVID-19, they are far more likely to see their conditions worsen over time and to require intensive respiratory assistance, according to a review released Thursday by the UC Merced Nicotine and Cannabis Policy Center (NCPC)....

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