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Avalanche survivors would have had only minutes to help save others

February 25, 2026
“This is all (in) seconds,” said Robert Rice, a UC Merced associate professor and former avalanche forecaster.
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New Approaches Coming to UC Merced Electrical Engineering Department

February 24, 2026

As technology advances and new problems present themselves, electrical engineers who can meet the needs of the modern world are in high demand, and adapting to electrical engineering education has...

Weeks in the making: How a brittle snowpack primed the Sierra for disaster

February 23, 2026
After modest storms over the holidays, the central Sierra turned bone dry in January. Daytime warmth softened the thin snowpack; nighttime freezes hardened it again. That cycle created so-called...
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