Public health Ph.D. student Felix Agyemang Opoku has been awarded the UC Global Health Initiative Center for Planetary Health Water and Health Summer Research Fellowship.
The research fellowships are designed to provide students with funding to conduct research on water and health.
Opoku, who works...
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December 18, 2025
December 16, 2025
The global climate crisis was entirely predictable and impacts nearly every facet of life. But we still can slow its progress and mitigate the effects we already see.
That was the message delivered earlier this month by climate scientist Michael Mann, who spoke at the first in a series of...
December 15, 2025
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers has bestowed the honor of "IEEE Life Fellow" to Mukesh Singhal, professor of electrical engineering at UC Merced.
According to its website, IEEE is the world's largest technical professional organization, with more than 465,000 active members...
December 11, 2025
Physics Ph.D. candidate Arabi Seshappan added two prestigious fellowships to her curriculum vitae: the Chateaubriand Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering Mathematics & Biology-Health and the UC President's Pre-Professoriate Fellowship.
During her graduate studies journey, the Fremont...
December 11, 2025
Starting next summer, UC Merced will join an elite group of University of California campuses hosting COSMOS — the California State Summer School for Math and Science — giving some of the state’s most talented high school students a new destination for exploring advanced STEM fields.
Established by...
December 10, 2025
The Small Farm Tech Expo brought researchers, farmers, university students and even a group from a Modesto elementary school to UC Merced to talk about agriculture technology and how it can best help those who grow the world's food.
Sponsored by the Community Alliance with Family Farmers, also...
December 9, 2025
A National Academies committee that includes a UC Merced researcher recently released its findings from a review of the science behind the operations of two massive California water projects.
Civil and environmental engineering Professor Josué Medellín-Azuara is a member of an ad hoc committee of...
December 5, 2025
The American Society of Civil Engineers has awarded civil and environmental engineering Professor Siddaiah Yarra the Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award for Region 9.
The ASCE San Francisco Section Individual Awards aim to recognize people who have made outstanding achievements or leadership in...
December 2, 2025
From smartphones to medical devices, artificial intelligence is a part of much of everyday life. One of UC Merced's newest professors is working to make AI more explainable and more efficient.
Electrical engineering Professor Xiaofan Yu started at UC Merced this summer after graduating from UC San...
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