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UC Merced Student Ambassadors Needed!
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Students and Faculty: Check out these food resources available on campus year round. 
Announcing our 2018-19 Seed Grant Winners
Congratulations to the eight winners of 2018-19 seed grant awards. 
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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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The Blum Center at UC Merced is focused on promoting access to healthy food on campus as well as in vulnerable populations across the region.

BLUM SUPPORTED COMMUNITY EVENTS

Oct
16

World Food Day

Save the date for campus programming in honor of World Food Day! In the meantime, read more about this initiative from the United Nations. 
Aug
17

August Food Pantry Distribution

The UC Merced Pantry will hold their monthly food distribution at the Merced College Tri-College Center from 10am to 2pm. Be prepared with your...

Featured News

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Campus Lands $1M Howard Hughes Grant to Make STEM More Inclusive

July 3, 2018

UC Merced’s efforts to make science education more inclusive were recently given a huge boost after the campus was awarded its first Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) grant, an impressive mark...

Cancer Systems Biology Identifies Master Regulators and New Drug Targets in Therapy-Resistant Cancer

July 2, 2018

New research published today in the Nature Partner journal npj Systems Biology and Applications establishes how genome-wide data in combination with systems biology analyses can identify master...

Misbehaving “Killer” Cells Accelerate Progress of Autoimmune Disease

June 29, 2018

In 1998, scientists studying rheumatoid arthritis observed a population of immune cells that weren’t behaving the way they were supposed to. Immunologists noted the strange phenomenon, but decided...

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