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Photo depicts climate scientist Michael Mann speaking at a podium at UC Merced.
December 16, 2025

The global climate crisis was entirely predictable and impacts nearly every facet of life. But we still can slow its progress and mitigate the effects we already see. That was the message delivered...

Professor Roger Bales
November 10, 2025

Professors Roger Bales and Martha Conklin arrived in Merced in 2003, the first non-administrative faculty members at UC Merced. They came with a vision: to create a research university that would...

Photo depicts trees that survived a fire, surrounded by ash on the ground.
November 4, 2025

Wildfires are growing more frequent and severe across the western United States, and California's Sierra Nevada is ground zero. Decades of fire suppression have left these forests overstocked and...