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UC Merced: The newest 'UC', established in 2005 with a mission to serve the San Joaquin Valley by promoting sustainable environment and society. Notably, UC Merced is a designated Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) and the most diverse UC campus - recently covered in the New York Times.
University of California: The largest public research and teaching institution in the world, with 10 renowned campuses throughout the state, and numerous multi-campus programs and student-alumni networks.

Student Achievements

PhD student Taylor Fugere recieved the UC Merced 2021-2022 Faculty Mentor Program Fellowship
PhD Student Abigail (Abby) Ruskey is serving as a panelist on March 22, 2021 for the Three Circles Center culminating session of a workshop linking Diversity-Equity-Inclusion (DEI) and Sustainability for the sustainability program staff at Emory University, Princeton and MIT.
PhD student Deseret Weeks will give an invited talk at the Los Angeles Geographical Society in April 2021 titled "Complexity and Progress in Adaptive Co-Management of the Forest Commons of the Sierra Nevada”
Abigail Ruskey, a PhD student in Dr. Tracey Osborne’s group, was a co-author of Powers of 10: seeking ’sweet spots’ for rapid climate and sustainability actions between individual and global scales published in Environmental Research Letters.
Taylor Fugere led a workshop series in spring 2021 with the Center for Engaged Teaching and Learning that provides graduate students the ability to take part in interactive sessions to discuss pedagogical research and including building strategies effective teaching. She also was a panelist at a session titled "Teaching Resilience: It Takes More Than Grit” at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Colleges and Universities.
The second MCS PhD cohort matriculated, comprised of 9 students from 4 countries