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...
UC Merced Brings NSF ‘Computer Science For All’ Program to Merced Schools
National Science Foundation awards $300,000 to START UP SJV, a new initiative led by UC MERCED Professor Angelo Kyrilov. Through the new grant, UC Merced undergraduates can participate in a course to support middle and high school teachers trying new computer science curricula in the professionally underrepresented San Joaquin Valley...
Public Conference Presents COVID-19 From Different Angles
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Colleen Naughton set to hold conferences on the intersections of COVID-19 and topics related to the environment, health and equity through a series of online conference sessions this fall...
ACTIVATE Bringing Telehealth Services to Vulnerable Merced County Residents
ACTIVATE is partnering with Livingston Community Health, a clinic that serves mostly Latinx communities with primary and preventative health care services regardless of their ability to pay. UC Merced’s Health Sciences Research Center (HSRI), the UC’s CITRIS network, tech distributors, community-based organizations and government agencies are also taking part to reach people who are vulnerable to the worst outcomes of the COVID-19 pandemic with the technology, skills and connections they need to access and use health services...