Registration for the Women in Tech Initiative at UC’s flagship event is now open! Now in its fifth year, this major annual event will showcase issues, sector opportunities, and the career paths of experts in human-computer interaction (HCI). Now entering a new era, human-computer interaction is a multidisciplinary field that combines new technology in cyber-physical systems with human-centered design and usability. This year’s symposium will examine leading-edge technologies and challenges to ensuring equitable and inclusive HCI...

The Women in Tech Initiative at UC is proud to announce the fifth annual Athena Award winners. Sponsored by CITRIS and the Banatao Institute and Berkeley Engineering, the awards recognize those who embody, encourage, and promote the inclusion of women in technology. This year’s Athena Award winners include UC Merced Professor Teenie Matlock, World Economic Forum’s Sheila Warren, UC Davis Assistant Professor Katia Cánepa Vega, and the nonprofit organization Self e-STEM...

Awarded every two years, the highly competitive MRPI program seeks to leverage the world-renowned research capabilities of the UC system to develop real-world solutions to significant problems facing the state and the world. This year’s competition garnered 94 proposals that spanned the breadth of UC’s expertise, from computer science and particle physics to anthropology and human rights. Fifteen projects — totaling $19 million — were selected based on their compelling approaches to advancing research areas that are important to UC and the state one of which was the LACA MRPI led by Professor Thomas Harmon of UCMerced...

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!, 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 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...

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...

Click the image above to learn more about Dr. Angel S. Fernandez-Bou's webinar!...

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!...