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KCET: Yosemite's Pandemic Shutdown Allows Wildlife a Respite

April 29, 2020

KVPR: Valley Fever: A Terror in the Body, a 'Wimp' in the Soil

April 28, 2020

LA Times: Who Knows Best? Mayors Collide with Governors Over COVID

April 25, 2020

KQED: Smokers 'Do Much Worse' With Coronavirus

April 25, 2020

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

April 24, 2020
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...

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...

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...

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