Blum Center for Alleviating Poverty and Social Disparities

Looking for Food Resources?

Students and Faculty: Check out these resources available on campus year round!

2nd Annual Blum Center Symposium

Our 2nd annual symposium, held in December 2018, highlighted green communities

Announcing our 2018-19 Seed Grant Winners

Congratulations to the eight winners of 2018-19 seed grant awards.

Welcome to the Blum Center

Part of the UC Blum Federation, the Blum Center at UC Merced promotes food security and access to healthy food at UC Merced and in vulnerable populations across the region.

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From 2016 to 2018, The Blum Center at UC Merced focused on promoting access to healthy food on campus as well as in vulnerable populations across the region.
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Featured News

$3.5 Million Hellman Endowment Expands Future of Research at UC Merced

July 26, 2020

Since 2011, the Hellman Fellows Fund has provided close to 60 UC Merced assistant professors with much-needed research support in the form of seed funding. The prestigious Hellman Fellowship has...

New Project Aims to Advance Understanding of Immune Cells as they Develop

July 20, 2020

Maybe now more than ever, scientists need to understand the immune system. A new National Institutes of Health grant is funding a cross-disciplinary collaboration between bioengineering Professor...

Study Reveals How Chemicals in Flame Retardants Interfere with Brain Development

June 15, 2020

Many of the items people use in their everyday lives, from baby clothes and Halloween costumes to furniture, are doused with chemical flame retardants designed to make the items safer. But a new...