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

Dr. Thelma Hurd joins UC Merced as the Director of Medical Education after years working as a clinician, public health researcher and translational scientist.

New Director of Medical Education Ready to Unleash Valley’s Untapped Potential

December 2, 2019

Dr. Thelma Hurd’s journey in medicine has taken her from New Jersey to Nigeria, with stops in Texas and Buffalo. Along the way, she gathered experience as a clinician, public health researcher and...

Lab Works to Understand Molecular Motors and Cholesterol’s Relation to Alzheimer’s

November 4, 2019

Professor Jing Xu and her students study extremely tiny motor proteins, but their work could make a huge contribution to the growing body of knowledge about Alzheimer’s and other diseases that...

Valley Fever the Focus of Public Event

October 7, 2019

UC Merced is offering the opportunity for Valley residents to learn what clinicians and researchers know about Valley fever, an airborne fungal infection that can have serious, even fatal,...