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Valley Public Radio: Fake News in the Time of COVID-19

April 24, 2020

Senior Becomes Fourth Bobcat to Win Prestigious Scholarship

April 23, 2020
Sam Schroeder, a fourth-year undergraduate student working with Professor Valerie Leppert in materials sciences, has been awarded a highly competitive Materials Engineering Scholarship — one of only two given annually. He is the fourth UC Merced student to achieve this honor. The scholarship was...
Economics Professor Greg Wright.

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...

Diverse Education: Recruiting and Retaining Diverse Faculty During Pandemic

April 22, 2020
Apples ready for harvest

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...

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...
Ritwika Vallomparambath PanikkasserySugasree hero

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...

Washington Post: Calendars Remind Us of Plans Past

April 16, 2020
Graduate student Jackie Shay has stepped up for the campus and students during the COVID-19 crisis.

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...

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