Register to attend Ricardo de Castro's seminar titled, Electric Propulsion in Agriculture Vehicles: Opportunities and Challenges. This talk will focus on the transition from today's diesel-dominated machines to tomorrow's zero-emission tractors...

Good day to you all -- and Welcome to the start of Fall semester! I wanted to take this opportunity to share two very important news items featuring our faculty...

The CITRIS Seed Funding program issues short-term, competitive awards of $40,000-$60,000 per project to advance information technology research and catalyze early work that can benefit industry, the public sector and society at large...

Happy Friday to you all! Just wanted to relay some news digest featuring our distinguished faculty, alumni and campus...

The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) has awarded a team of researchers from the University of California campuses at Merced, Berkeley and Davis a two-year grant to simulate urban air mobility in the San Francisco area, and to draft regulations for this highly complex form of travel...

California’s agricultural sector is the nation’s largest: it generates more than $50 billion in annual revenue and employs more than 420,000 people. The ongoing drought is taking a toll on agriculture, related sectors, and rural communities, but there are ways to increase resilience in a warming world...

Secure Water Future is highlighted as one of the projects involving University of California researchers that has the potential to help meet the challenges of the climate crisis. Along with other innovative research and education initiatives, SWF brings together researchers and extension specialists to enhance climate resilience...

A team of UC Merced engineering students brought hands-on lessons on drones and robotics to hundreds of children and families at the recent Tri-Valley Innovation Fair. “Drones and robots are a gateway, a spark for young people to explore STEM,” said Leigh Bernacchi, program director of the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) and the Banatao Institute at UC Merced, who led the students in the all-day demonstrations at the March 19 fair...

The Economic Impacts of the 2021 Drought on California Agriculture Preliminary Report, released today, analyzes the impacts of last year’s drought in the Central Valley, the Russian River Basin and northern intermountain valley areas. The researchers developed these preliminary estimates of economic impacts using surveys, reviews of hydrological information and remote sensing data gathered from those areas and comparing them to average conditions, as well as to the 2012-2016 drought...