Recent News
To see how CITRIS is shaping the UC Merced campus, as well as California and the world, check out some of CITRIS @ UC Merced’s recent news:
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...
ACTIVATE Will Bring Telehealth Services To Vulnerable, At-Risk Residents of California’s Central Valley
CITRIS Researchers are launching ACTIVATE, a public-private pilot initiative to bring telehealth services to underserved rural residents in Merced County, California...
Kurtz Leads Project to Efficiently Store Renewable Energy
Professor Kurtz of UCMerced is leading a new $1.25 million project called “Modeling of Long-duration Storage for Decarbonization of the California Energy System,” funded by the California Energy Commission. The CEC granted 13 projects with more than $30 million total to find ways to store energy generated by solar collection for 10 to 24 hours — the critical period to overcome rainy and overcast days. Kurtz and her team are looking for ways to site storage and provide greater electric-grid stability to help the CEC make decisions. The researchers will look at a year’s worth of data and seek cost-effective ways of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and improving the state’s energy stability...
UC Merced Center for the Humanities report shows partnership with CITRIS
As an interdisciplinary organization, CITRIS is pleased to partner with the UC Merced Center for the Humanities. They have published their annual report...