Experiments conducted by UC Merced researchers find that people who perform good deeds are far more likely to be thought of as religious believers than atheists. Moreover, the psychological bias linking kindness and helpfulness with faith appears to be global in scale.| news.ucmerced.edu
By Lorena Anderson, UC Merced September 4, 2025 This year's Hellman Fellows: Adeyemi Adebiyi, Qian Wang and Meredith Van Natta As the Hellman Fellowships celebrate their 30th year, three more researchers, one from each of UC Merced’s schools, have joined the prestigious ranks of recipients. Electrical engineering Professor Qian Wang, sociology Professor Meredith Van Natta and Earth systems Professor Adeyemi Adebiyi will receive funding through their fellowships for projects they have propos...| Newsroom - The latest Bobcat news, information and events
By Patty Guerra, UC Merced, and Shawn Vestal, Washington State University September 3, 2025 Lightning ignited than 600 fires in California in 2020. Lightning from thunderstorms rolling through Central California on Sept. 2 ignited numerous wildfires, including several large fires in the Sierra Nevada foothills that had burned more than 19 square miles by Wednesday morning. The California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services recorded more than 9,000 lightning strikes in a single day. Ligh...| Newsroom - The latest Bobcat news, information and events
September 2, 2025 UC Merced Alumni Association President Miguel Lopez '12, center, is joined by Chancellor Juan Sánchez Muñoz and Professor Zenaida Aguirre-Muñoz. Lopez threw the ceremonial first pitch. Baseball fans from the UC Merced campus community celebrated the start of the fall semester by witnessing a barnburner of a game at Fresno’s Chukchansi Park. More than 250 Bobcat students, along with 100 alumni and their families, received tickets to the Aug. 29 game. UC Merced staff and ...| Newsroom - The latest Bobcat news, information and events
By Patty Guerra, UC Merced September 2, 2025 Work at the AES advances innovation, fosters sustainability and builds climate resilience. Three professors are joining UC Merced’s Agricultural Experiment Station this fall, bringing more expertise and resources to the 3-year-old research center. Management of complex systems Professor Crystal Kolden will focus on the intersection of agriculture and wildfire, public health Professor Andrea Joyce will work on sustainable, environmentally friendly...| Newsroom - The latest Bobcat news, information and events
August 29, 2025 In all, $80 million was announced to support 11 projects statewide. UC Merced’s smart farm is getting a smart barn. The university will receive $3 million from the state of California, part of $80 million in funding to support 11 projects across California announced Friday by Gov. Gavin Newsom and the California Jobs First Council. The money will go to construct an agricultural technology barn at the site of UC Merced’s Agriculture Experimentation Station, known as the Sma...| Newsroom - The latest Bobcat news, information and events
August 29, 2025 Adriana Ponce Mata has a passion for science and helping others. This is the final entry of a series of profiles of new UC Merced Bobcats enrolled for the fall 2025 semester. Adriana Ponce Mata spent the last two summers working in one of the largest and oldest companies in the Bay Area. This fall, she joins UC Merced to begin her next chapter. Through Project SEED, she gained hands-on research experience testing fuels in an oil refinery, sparking her passion for science and ...| Newsroom - The latest Bobcat news, information and events
By Brenda Ortiz August 28, 2025 After 20 years with UC Merced, Tamela Adkins retires from the police department. On Aug. 12, 2005, less than one month before UC Merced opened its doors to undergraduate students, Tamela Adkins joined the campus’s Police Department as support services manager. Intially, her role included managing records and evidence, overseeing the police dispatch center and hiring. She later added responsibility for the administrative unit and a federally required annual re...| Newsroom - The latest Bobcat news, information and events
Spirits were high and futures bright while all else was soaked in a summer storm that made Tuesday morning’s Scholars Bridge Crossing, UC Merced’s traditional greeting to new students, a welcome unlike any before.| news.ucmerced.edu
UC Merced remains one of the top universities in the nation according to Money’s 2025 “Best Colleges in America” report.| news.ucmerced.edu
The new academic year is a momentous milestone for UC Merced — two decades of growth, innovation and achievement. In 2005, the first undergraduate students were welcomed on the new campus. Now, 20 years later, thousands more new students will begin their own journeys that will shape their futures and the future of UC Merced.| news.ucmerced.edu
San Luis Reservoir in Merced County - one of California's largest artificial lakes - not only irrigates Central Valley farmland and supplies drinking water across Silicon Valley and the South Bay, but also draws swimmers, boaters and anglers year-round.| news.ucmerced.edu
This is part of a series of profiles of new UC Merced Bobcats enrolled for the fall 2025 semester.| news.ucmerced.edu
A group of dedicated UC Merced alumni have come together to launch an endowed fund focused on supporting LGBTQ+ student initiatives, programs and priorities.| news.ucmerced.edu
This is part of a series of profiles of new UC Merced Bobcats enrolled for the fall 2025 semester. | news.ucmerced.edu
When the city of Fresno and the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District wanted specifics about the impacts of truck traffic on the health of some of the city's most vulnerable residents, officials turned to UC Merced's Community Labor Center (CLC) and public health Professor Sandie Ha.| news.ucmerced.edu
New Adventures Close to Home for Incoming UC Merced Student| news.ucmerced.edu
This is part of a series of profiles of new UC Merced Bobcats enrolled for the fall 2025 semester.| news.ucmerced.edu
By Sandra Baltazar Martínez| news.ucmerced.edu
By Jody Murray, UC Merced| news.ucmerced.edu
Faculty members at UC Merced are taking the lead on four Multicampus Research Program Initiatives (MRPI), working with colleagues around the University of California system to address challenges around labor and agriculture, active matter, Indigenous health and fusion energy.| news.ucmerced.edu
Fellowship Lifts Mission of Farmworkers’ Daughter to Improve Immigrant Health| news.ucmerced.edu
This is part of a series of profiles of new UC Merced Bobcats enrolled for the fall 2025 semester.| news.ucmerced.edu
By Jody Murray, UC Merced| news.ucmerced.edu
UC Merced students, faculty and staff have access to a new safety tool: the Bobcat Safety App — the university's official safety app — launched by the UC Merced Police Department ahead of the new academic year.| news.ucmerced.edu
Mass deportation of California's undocumented residents would open a $275 billion hole in the state's economy, cripple industries ranging from agriculture to hospitality, disrupt countless small businesses, and lead to $23 billion a year in lost tax revenue.| news.ucmerced.edu
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Recently, more than 150 students at 10 high schools in Los Angeles, New York City and Washington, D.C. completed Climate Justice, a UC Merced course , through a unique partnership between the University of California and the National Education Equity Lab.| news.ucmerced.edu
A new program led by UC Merced in collaboration with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory aims to train graduate and undergraduate students to work in the rapidly growing industry of quantum information science and technology, or QIST.| news.ucmerced.edu
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UC Merced’s campus community was represented at Merced County’s Hmong American Day, which celebrated a people’s 50-year journey from war and oppression to acceptance and achievement in the United States.| news.ucmerced.edu
A new endowed chair will significantly enhance UC Merced’s work to advance research and innovation in the agricultural technology sector.| news.ucmerced.edu
By Jody Murray, UC Merced| news.ucmerced.edu
With cheers, hugs and leis, more than 1,500 UC Merced graduates received a celebratory sendoff to their bright futures as a prominent keynote speaker told them to make the most of the here and now.| news.ucmerced.edu
On May 18, 1995, the University of California Board of Regents voted to select Merced as the site for its ninth undergraduate campus.| news.ucmerced.edu
The University of California, Merced, will celebrate the accomplishments of more than 1,500 students during its Spring 2025 Commencement ceremonies, to be held May 16 -18 on the UC Merced Recreation Field. The ceremonies will recognize graduates from all academic schools over three days of celebration.| news.ucmerced.edu
By Jody Murray, UC Merced| news.ucmerced.edu
People don't think about dust much until it's time to clean the house, but a new report by UC researchers could raise awareness of the growing threat of dust and dust storms.| news.ucmerced.edu
In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic impacted many facets of life, including health care, schools and the work environment.| news.ucmerced.edu
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By Francesca Dinglasan, UC Merced| news.ucmerced.edu
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By Jody Murray, UC Merced| news.ucmerced.edu
UC Merced life and environmental sciences Professor Emily Jane McTavish and a collaborator at the University of Kansas recently received a $1.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to extend and improve the Open Tree of Life (OpenTree).| news.ucmerced.edu