In the Central Valley, where hundreds of miles of fertile farmland yield a third of all the produce grown in the United States and farmers brag that they are feeding the world, college students often go hungry while trying to juggle classes and family demands. Additionally, the COVID pandemic...
MacKenzie Scott Gifts Record $20 Million to UC Merced
Billionaire MacKenzie Scott's decision to target education in her latest round of donations paid off for three Valley schools on Tuesday. UC Merced topped the local recipients, receiving $20 million. "In the most significant act of generosity in the history of our campus, philanthropist & author MacKenzie Scott and her...
UC Merced to Open Inquiry Over Professor’s ‘Repugnant’ Tweets
The chancellor of UC Merced is calling for an inquiry into a professor who allegedly tweeted anti-Semitic messages. "We must not let anti-Semitism or any form of bigotry or hate toward any group take root in the UC Merced community," chancellor Juan Sánchez Muñoz said in a message posted on...
UC Merced Professor Accused of Anti-Jewish Twitter Posts
[aggregation-styles] The Jewish News of Northern California A teaching professor in the UC Merced School of Engineering is the owner of a recently deactivated Twitter account that had a pattern of antisemitic posts, The Jewish News has discovered. The content was described by the Anti-Defamation League as “repulsive” and promoting...
Radicalized UC Merced Student’s Attack Plan Released by FBI
A troubled UC Merced freshman who burst into a classroom in 2015, stabbing four people before police shot him dead, planned to praise Allah while slitting the throats of classmates and use a gun taken from an ambushed officer to kill more, according to records released by the FBI. Authorities...
Can Valley Researchers Wipe Out COVID-19 on Mass Transit?
Using smoke candles and viruses that infect bacteria (not humans), an experiment to stop COVID-19 with worldwide implications was staged on buses in Selma this week. A team of researchers is using different approaches to stop and eliminate coronavirus on mass transit — and eventually office buildings with large HVAC...
At UC Merced, a Pipeline for More Diverse Faculty
Alejandra Santoyo is drawn to the thrill of scientific discovery: identifying challenging questions and seeking her own answers. But even after declaring a major in cognitive science, the interdisciplinary study of how the mind works, the UC Merced student still didn’t know if she wanted to be a researcher. “I...
Dinosaurs & Beer U: Good News to Kickstart Your Week
Welcome to GV Wire's weekly roundup of news that will bring a smile to your face. We're here to enlighten, inform, and amuse. If you have good news to share, contact us at info@gvwire.com or jmurray@gvwire.com. UC Merced Student Makes Big Dino Discovery A UC Merced student who says he's...
These 4 Charts Show How Trump Tariffs Hurt All. Not Just China.
On March 22, the Trump administration lobbed its second volley in a planned escalation of punitive trade measures against America’s trading partners. The latest salvo targets China, the largest U.S. trading partner, and covers a much wider range of products than the first set of tariffs, which focused on steel...
Wildfires in West Have Gotten Bigger, More Frequent and Longer Since the 1980s
Dramatic images of out-of-control wildfires in western North American forests have appeared on our television and computer screens with increasing regularity in recent decades, while costs of fire suppression have soared. In 2015, federal spending on suppression exceeded US$2 billion, just 15 years after first exceeding $1 billion. Something has...