UC Merced professors collaborate on three CITRIS grants to solve big problems in the Valley
UC Merced faculty are involved in three new proposals to address society’s—and the San Joaquin Valley’s—problems through technology: health, agriculture, and access to STEM careers. The CITRIS Core Seed Fund awards are each $60,000 and will be used to catapult research into actionable results within a year. Of the 68 proposals, seven teams were awarded, including three with UC Merced researchers. Learn more about the proposals here...
¡Valle!
¡Valle!, now in its second year, helps Central Valley students stay in STEM studies and access opportunities. The program is open to undergraduates in STEM across the Central Valley, including community colleges, CSUs and UC, and the deadline to apply has been extended to Dec. 20. Learn more about Valle by clicking the picture above!...
CITRIS Celebrates 20 Years of Impact and Innovation, Looks to the Decades Ahead
CITRIS celebrates 20 years of creating new technologies and solutions to benefit society. The University of California research center has forged public and private partnerships to shape the future of tech...
UC Merced Achieves Carbon Neutrality Two Years Ahead of Schedule
Over the past few years UC Merced has worked on the UC Carbon Neutrality Initiative which looks to drive campus carbon emissions to 0. After a lengthy and rigorous review by independent auditors, UC Merced can proudly announce it is the first public research university in the country to achieve carbon neutrality, two years ahead of its goal...
New UC ANR Water webinar covers disadvantaged communities
Click the image above to learn more about Dr. Angel S. Fernandez-Bou's webinar!...
COVID-19 online conference goes beyond social distancing
The “Converging COVID-19, environment, health, and equity” conference is the collaborative effort of UC Merced Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Colleen Naughton, her colleagues from the University of South Florida, and the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP). Read about Professor Colleen Naughton's seminar on wastewater and early detections of spikes in COVID-19 through human waste by clicking the image above!...
New Precision Ag Project would Help Farmers Measure Plant Moisture
Professor Joshua Viers and Professor Stefano Carpin are working to create a robot that can gauge the moisture level of crops in the field. Backed by an over 1 million dollar USDA grant, this robot hopes to save farmers time and money which will translate to savings in the food-production chain...
Fork in the Road Video Features Prof. Colleen Naughton
The pandemic changed the way Americans consume food—and for many, exposed them to hunger and food insecurity. UC Merced Prof. Colleen Naughton received a CITRIS COVID-19 Seed Fund to solve the disruption in the food supply chain...
AI is For the Birds In a New Computer Science Project
A team of UC Merced researchers led by Professor Shawn Newsom are using artificial intillegence to increase the accuracy of bird populations studies. By running their AI model on recordings taken from across a bird habitat in Sonoma, they hope to distinguish between 45 different species of birds based on only their sound...