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.
Learn more about Blum Centers on other UC campuses by clicking here.

Featured News

Researchers Discover Mechanism Proteins Use To Find And Control Genes

February 19, 2020

Bioengineering Professor Victor Muñoz has answered a long-standing genetic mystery, and his research suggests that someday, bioengineers could devise ways to control gene activity — manually...

Breakthrough in Stem Cell Research: First Image of Niche Environment

February 13, 2020

Professor Joel Spencer was a rising star in college soccer and now he is an emerging scientist in the world of biomedical engineering, capturing — for the first time — an image of a hematopoietic...

UC Merced Alumna Represents Valley at State of the Union

February 12, 2020

One of UC Merced’s original students, Enid Picart — soon to graduate from the UCSF San Joaquin Valley Program in Medical Education (SJV PRIME) — represented the San Joaquin Valley in a big way last...