January 30, 2025 - By Jody Murray, UC Merced - Lockdowns. Social distancing. Shuttered schools and businesses. The COVID-19 pandemic and its sweeping disruptions set off a stampede of “what it ...

Universal Credit is the Government's benefits system to support people who are low paid or out of work. It was intended to combine or replace six other benefits including jobseeker's allowance ...

More than 300 child-care facilities are closed amid the L.A. fires, sending thousands of families scrambling to find care.

Florence Zhu, a sophomore student at UC Berkeley, has spent her college years hearing disturbing stories from her friends—stories of abuse, sexual violence and intimate partner violence. Last year, ...

This data set is revolutionizing our understanding of how Milky Way-like galaxies form and evolve.” “It’s the most detailed view of a galaxy outside the Milky Way,” UC Berkeley associate professor of ...

Systemwide applicant and admit counts are unduplicated. UC Merced opened in 2005 so there is no data prior to 2005 for this campus. Beginning in 2011, Merced invited all California resident referrals ...

Xiao Qiang, a research scientist at the UC Berkeley School of Information and a prominent scholar in the study of state censorship, propaganda, and disinformation in China, pointed to TikTok’s parent ...

At the grocery store, a mother guides her child down the cereal aisle. Nearby, a man studies a list on his phone while a cashier rings up a customer’s order with precision. Amid these ordinary scenes, ...