by Alli Sweigard | Sep 30, 2025 | Company News, F3 Highlight, News
By Alli Sweigard, VISTA F3 Communications Coordinator On September 17th, we hosted our first Field Day at the UC Merced Experimental Smart Farm. The event brought together the UC Merced community, industry partners, and farmers for a day focused on agricultural...
by Alli Sweigard | Sep 10, 2025 | Company News, News
This summer, VISTA F3 student Ethan Vu joined the AgAID Undergraduate Research Internship, working with Professors Joshua Viers and Teamrat Ghezzehei on AI-Assisted Rapid AgTech Development. Ethan contributed to an Arduino-based STEM kit to teach middle schoolers...
by Alli Sweigard | Sep 10, 2025 | Company News, News
“I’m grateful and humbled to be promoted to Full Professor at UC Merced. This journey has been shaped by amazing students, colleagues, and collaborators — and by the privilege of working in and for the San Joaquin Valley and California.” —Dr. Hestir As an...
by Alli Sweigard | Sep 10, 2025 | Company News, News
We are excited to kick off the fall semester with all of you! As a community of students, faculty, staff, researchers, and partners, this fresh semester is a chance to come together, share ideas, and spark collaborations that strengthen the future of agriculture. From...
by Alli Sweigard | Sep 2, 2025 | Company News, News
By Patty Guerra, UC Merced September 2, 2025 Three professors are joining UC Merced’s Agricultural Experiment Station this fall, bringing more expertise and resources to the 3-year-old research center. Management of complex systems Professor Crystal Kolden will focus...
by Alli Sweigard | Aug 21, 2025 | Company News, News
Congratulations to UC Merced F3 fellow, Yulissa T. Perez Rojas for successfully defending her PhD in Environmental Systems this summer. Her dissertation, “The Scale Integration Challenge: How Moisture Variability and Osmotic Stress Create Systematic Biases from...
