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Researcher Develops New Cloud Security Method for Mobile Users

May 4, 2015
A UC Merced researcher has come up with a new, super-efficient encryption system for smart phones that lets users secure data being sent to and retrieved from the cloud. Encrypting data on your phone or tablet — including pictures, documents and videos — protects against the kinds of...

Environmental Systems Student Wins Inaugural GradSLAM! Event

April 9, 2015
This week marked the end of the first-ever UC Merced GradSLAM! competition, in which graduate students were given just three minutes to present their research to a panel of non-specialist judges with the goal of increasing the students’ communication skills and ability to effectively present...

Floodplain Management Can Increase Groundwater Supply

April 9, 2015
California’s groundwater is being rapidly depleted because cities and farms extract more than is replenished naturally, compacting local aquifers and decreasing supply in some places in the Central Valley. And, it turns out, levees placed along rivers in the late 1800s and early 1900s to...

Interim Dean Receives INFORMS Publication Award

February 5, 2015
Customer service is a priority for American companies. It’s hard to complete any business transaction without receiving an opportunity to rate the service received or comment on the positive or negative aspects of the experience. But what if the way businesses collect and interpret customer...

Professors Share in UC Effort to Study Effects of Climate Change

February 4, 2015
Several UC Merced faculty members will play important roles in a new UC systemwide effort to study the ecological effects of climate change across varied ecosystems. Funded by a $1.9 million President's Research Catalyst Awards grant from UC President Janet Napolitano and led by UC Santa...

$100,000 Wells Fargo Gift Supports Engineering Capstone Program

February 2, 2015
Longtime campus contributor Wells Fargo is giving a $100,000 grant to help students at the University of California, Merced, design technologies that address some of the Central Valley’s water, energy and food needs. Wells Fargo’s Clean Technology and Innovation grant is part of a...

Showcase Your Work at Research Week 2015

January 28, 2015
Take part in Research Week 2015 and show off the work you and your colleagues are conducting at UC Merced. Contact the Office of Research and Economic Development for details.  

Bioengineer Offers Public Talk on Stem Cell Research

January 26, 2015
Professor Kara E. McCloskey will speak this week about cardiovascular stem cell engineering as part of the Modesto Area Partners in Science (MAPS) lecture series. The free talk will begin at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 30, in Sierra Hall 132 at Modesto Junior College’s West Campus. It’s open...

KQED | Warm Temps Mean Less Snow for the Sierra

January 5, 2015
December’s storms boosted water levels in state reservoirs, but unusually warm temperatures meant rain instead of snow for parts of the Sierra Nevada, according to Prof. Roger Bales. Click to view video.

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