Congratulations! Class of 2020
CITRIS UC Merced congratulates Valerie Moss, Class of 2020! During her term at UC Merced, Moss has served as a tour guide, ASUCM judge, and intern with the Office of Student Life. With CITRIS, Moss led the transition to tech-based team coordination, helping everyone adopt new technologies and practices; was instrumental in launching several programs including the inaugural Tech for Social Good program; and conducted social science research on ag-food-tech, women-in-tech and diversity in STEM fields. She brought a critical perspective as a student from the San Joaquin Valley to improving our community with technology programs. Moss graduates with a double major in Cognitive Science and Psychology. She plans to attend graduate school to inform educational policy...
Innovate to Grow Goes Virtual
The School of Engineering is hosting it's annual event Innovate to Grow, which has always been a day-long series of presentations, posters and judging, will be held entirely online this year in a streamlined format via Zoom on May 15...
UC MERCED PART OF CITRIS’S COVID-19 RAPID RESPONSE GRANTS
UC Merced professors are leading or participating in four technology projects designed to mitigate the COVID-19 crisis. The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) and the Banatao Institute awarded seed grants to 25 interdisciplinary, multi-campus teams to address the pandemic. More than 95 proposals were reviewed, including rapid-cycle ventilators; next-generation face masks; new algorithms for contact tracing and advance prediction; and a portable, point-of-care rapid-testing device the size of a credit card...
Earth Day Talk Focuses on Ag Land and Water Regulations, Solutions
The Center for Information Technology in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) and UC Merced’s Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Graduate Group present an online talk for the golden anniversary of Earth Day...