News

06/22/2026

An all-faculty rock band formed in a professor’s garage a decade ago has released the first album produced at UC Merced’s digitally advanced recording studio.

06/18/2026

A leading expert in soil biogeochemistry and environmental engineering, UC Merced Professor Asmeret Asefaw Berhe, brings her research and perspective to a global conversation about the future of our planet.

06/18/2026

Editor's note: This story is republished from the Spring/Summer 2026 issue of UC Merced Magazine.

06/18/2026

UC Merced doctoral candidate Adekunle “Kunle” Adewole has been selected as a 2026 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings Fellow. 

Adewole was also chosen as one of 18 participants in the Baden-...

06/17/2026

Four members of the UC Merced Foundation Board of Trustees have created a $100,000 endowed scholarship designed to remove financial barriers for Las Positas College students on the path to earning a UC Merced degree. 

06/10/2026

UC Merced and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have long been partners in cutting-edge science and technology.

06/08/2026

When Isabelle Haddad, a Ph.D. candidate in Environmental Systems, looks ahead to the next chapter, her future is already coming into focus.

06/03/2026

Jarrod L. Brown Jr. is the first UC Merced graduate student to be awarded the National Academy of Education/Spencer Dissertation fellowship, supporting his doctoral research in structural inequality in higher...

06/01/2026

Key Points:

  • Elephants function as a keystone species, producing large amounts of nutrient-rich dung that sustain diverse dung beetle populations and support wider ecosystem health.

05/26/2026

Editor's note: This story is republished from the Spring/Summer 2026 issue of UC Merced Magazine.

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