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Team Demonstrates Healthy New App at Fall Innovate to Grow Event

December 17, 2019
It’s a situation familiar to many UC Merced students: Having to translate for parents and other, older relatives who speak little or no English. It can be especially challenging when what you have to translate is almost a language in itself — medical jargon. Senior Ezer Angeles...

Students Take the Lead in LEED Certification of SE1 Building

October 17, 2018
Recently, the Science and Engineering 1 (SE1) building achieved gold certification under LEED Operations and Maintenance (LEED O & M) criteria. An Engineering Service Learning (ESL) team composed of students from various disciplines spearheaded the SE1 certification process during the...

Students Give Back to the Community at Bobcat Day

April 26, 2018
116 Engineering Service Learning students at the University of California, Merced have showcased their projects for admitted freshmen, interested transfer applicants, and community members at Bobcat Day on Saturday, April 21. In these projects, students use their combined technical skills to...

Aerospace Exhibit Arriving in Merced

April 24, 2018
Students of various backgrounds and grade levels in the University of California, Merced Engineering Service Learning team Merced Children’s Museum have been working alongside the UC Merced Calteach program and First 5 to build a venue to support K-12 educational...

App Closes Gap Between Health Care Providers and Patients

April 22, 2018
There are serious misunderstandings about the proper use of antibiotics among the general population. When considering the high percentage of non- or limited English speakers in the Central Valley, the potential for misuse and overuse of antibiotics becomes even more critical. In fact, members of...

Students Closer to Disease Detection through Automated Scanning

April 22, 2018
Pierce’s Disease costs California grape growers over $104 million annually by infecting and killing vines. Undergraduate students in the Engineering Service Learning at the University of California, Merced have been working closely with the UC Cooperative Extension for designing a drone that...

Plate Tectonics Simulation Boosts Elementary School Test Scores

April 3, 2018
34.3% of sixth-grade students in Merced County scored below proficient in science on California standardized tests in 2016. To address this educational challenge, Engineering Service Learning students at the University of California, Merced have been working closely with Chenoweth Elementary School...

Educating the Community on Bacterial and Viral Illnessses

November 3, 2017
Healthy Host is an Android Application being developed by students from the University of California, Merced's Project Protect Engineering Service Learning team. In collaboration with Healthy House and Faculty Advisor Dr. Miriam Barlow of UC Merced, students hope to bridge the gap between...

Get S.E.T. Working on Educating Students on Plate Techtonics

September 26, 2017
The Get S.E.T. Engineering Service Learning Team is working with the teachers and administrators at Merced County Office of Education to find solutions to problems that students face in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) classes.

LEED Lab project receives recognition from US Green Building Council

August 25, 2017
LEED Lab Engineering Service Learning Project has received recognition from the United States Green Building Council for its impact in future of  US Green Building Council

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