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CAREER Award will Fund Research into Arthritis Cause

±Ê°ù´Ç´Ú±ð²õ²õ´Ç°ùÌýRoberto Andresen Eguiluz has received a CAREER award for his research into the underlying cause of arthritis.

He is the 33rd researcher from ºÚÁÏ°Ù¿Æ to earn a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

ºÚÁÏ°Ù¿Æ Invests in the Next Generation of Ag-Tech Leadership

The new ºÚÁÏ°Ù¿Æ innovation initiative is investing in 10 graduate researchers to solve climate and community challenges. Their work is the start of a concerted focus in climate-smart agriculture for the campus.

Drones Donated to ºÚÁÏ°Ù¿Æ by Start-Up SeekOps Will Monitor Environmental Conditions

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) equipment donated by Texas-based start-up will support ºÚÁϰٿÆ's research efforts in environmental monitoring and conservation.

The gift includes multiple state-of-the-art UAVs, as well as the necessary software and hardware to operate and maintain the equipment.

What's There to Do in the Merced Area? Plenty

One question students considering attending ºÚÁÏ°Ù¿Æ might ask is, "What's there to do around there?"

The quick answer is - a lot. There are plenty of ways for students to spend their leisure time in the greater Merced area, for students of varying interests:

Are you an outdoors enthusiast? Do you enjoy nights out with crowds of friends? Are you a devoted video game player? Do you like the challenge of thrift shopping? Do you prefer to just chill out, perhaps with a book while water laps gently at the shore?

Students Gain Experience (and Money) Doing Career-Oriented Work in New Program

Sarif Morningstar wondered something: "What happens if I grow plants using fog?"

The ºÚÁÏ°Ù¿Æ student's efforts to find an answer to that question led to a research project they got paid to conduct. That in turn led to an opportunity to study plant biology in the UC Davis Ph.D. program.

Like Morningstar, many undergraduate students at ºÚÁÏ°Ù¿Æ can get paid to do research under the newly adopted (LAEP).

Events at ºÚÁÏ°Ù¿Æ Aimed at Reducing Food Waste

Roughly a third of all food worldwide goes to waste.

Outside of the obvious direct costs, that waste has numerous other repercussions: much of it goes to landfills, where it generates methane, a greenhouse gas. Resources such as water and seeds are squandered. And at the same time, one in four people are experiencing food insecurity.

"We're wasting all this food when folks are going hungry," said Erin Meyer, Sustainable Food Programs coordinator for ºÚÁϰٿÆ.

Challenges Bring About Positive Change for ºÚÁÏ°Ù¿Æ Food Services

After weathering a pandemic shutdown and some fairly withering criticism, ºÚÁϰٿÆ's food service programs have emerged better than ever.

The shutdown that started in 2020 brought about abrupt changes to food service operations - prepackaged items were the order of the day to feed students, and for catering, there were no orders of the day.

Grant Funds Research into Computational Materials Science, Collaboration with Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Materials Science and Engineering Professor Beth Nowadnick has earned a National Science Foundation (NSF) award to study materials that may provide new ways to store or process information.

Nowadnick has been collaborating for the past two years with Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBNL) scientist on the project that led to the grant, which totals $379,374.

Research Paper Explores how the Type of Renewable Energy Affects the Needs for Energy Storage

As more renewable energy projects take hold in California, there is more need for effective ways to store that energy.

A paper published by a ºÚÁÏ°Ù¿Æ research team examines how the need for storage can vary for different combinations of renewable resources.

Women Make History at ºÚÁϰٿÆ

Innumerable changes have come to ºÚÁÏ°Ù¿Æ since ground was broken for the campus in 2002. Some of the women who helped found the campus and remain employed by ºÚÁϰٿÆ, reflected recently on the changes in the university and themselves for Women's History Month.