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SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE: California’s farm belt sees thirstier crops — and more pressure on water supplies

March 13, 2024

Mother Daughter Science Camp Offers Girls Insight into Future Pathways

March 8, 2024
Merced area fourth- and fifth-grade girls and their mothers recently participated in hands-on scientific projects in a UC Merced classroom laboratory that was transformed for one day into an exciting experimental space. UC Merced’s NSF-funded CREST Center for Cellular and Biomolecular Machines (...

SICB Awarded Funding for Major Cultural Change Initiative

March 6, 2024
The National Science Foundation recently awarded nearly $500,000 to the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) to help develop an internal culture that fosters inclusion, diversity and equity. The grant comes from the BIO-LEAPS (Leading Culture Change through Professional Societies...

ABC30: What you need to know about Prop 1 for CA primary election

March 5, 2024

'Roads to Removal' Symposium Looks at Opportunities to Fight Climate Change

March 4, 2024
Discussions around climate change often center around the bad news - the planet is warming, weather is getting more extreme, resources are increasingly scarce. But there also is cause for hope. There are options to mitigate climate change, and some of them are already happening. This was the...

HUFFPOST: Is 'Eldest Daughter Syndrome' A Real Thing? A New Study May Surprise You.

March 4, 2024

NBC NEWS: In Texas, a powerful combination of dry land and high winds fuels wildfires

February 29, 2024

Fellowship Expands Quantum, AI Training to Fill Industry Demand

February 26, 2024
UC Merced graduate students Anuvetha Govindarajan and Jocelyn Ornelas-Munoz have each received a $25,000 fellowship from SandboxAQ, which creates solutions at the nexus of artificial intelligence and quantum technology — or AQ — to address some of the world's greatest challenges. For the past six...

Grant Supports UC Merced Effort to Improve College Readiness in Valley

February 26, 2024
A significant grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will advance UC Merced's efforts to create a deeper and more comprehensive understanding of college readiness among high-school students in the San Joaquin Valley, particularly those from underrepresented and socioeconomically diverse...

THE ATLANTIC: Shark Teeth Are Time Machines

February 25, 2024

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