UC Merced's Expansion Project Continues to Garner Acclaim
September 8, 2023
Since its completion three years ago, the Merced 2020 Project has amassed numerous accolades. Most recently, the landmark project that, in essence, doubled the size of the university's campus, was selected to receive the Urban Land Institute (ULI) Americas Award for Excellence. The 2020 Project was...
Scholars Bridge Crossing Event (Slideshow)
August 24, 2023
Thousands of incoming UC Merced students participated in the Scholars Bridge Crossing, one of the university's earliest traditions. The annual event is a rite of passage for new Bobcats who also walked through the "Beginnings" sculpture, signifying the beginning of their journey at UC Merced. New...
Move-in Weekend 2023 (Slideshow)
August 22, 2023
UC Merced welcomed back thousands of students to campus for the start of the university's 19th academic year! From Aug. 17-20, family and friends joined incoming Bobcats as they arrived on campus throughout move-in weekend. As they settle into the residence halls, student and staff volunteers were...
Grant Funds Research into Computational Materials Science, Collaboration with Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
March 21, 2023
Materials Science and Engineering Professor Beth Nowadnick has earned a National Science Foundation (NSF) award to study materials that may provide new ways to store or process information. Nowadnick has been collaborating for the past two years with Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBNL)...
Biologists Attend Prestigious Summer Teaching Institutes
June 30, 2017
UC Merced Professor Marcos Garcia-Ojeda and lecturer Kamal Dulai have received Macmillan Travel Awards to learn how to bring more effective teaching into the STEM classroom. The $500 awards cover lodging and travel to one of the Summer Institutes on Scientific Teaching’s multi-day regional...
Blum Center Announces 2017 Seed Grant Recipients
June 7, 2017
UC Merced’s branch of the Blum Center for Developing Economies rebooted this spring with a faculty-led effort to spend two years working on becoming the hub for all food-security-related research and outreach on and off campus. Part of that effort includes seed grants for UC Merced...
Campus Joins Merced County Fair’s Food Drive Effort
June 5, 2017
UC Merced is partnering with the Merced County Fair to support Mercy Medical Center’s "We Care Wednesday" Community Food Drive presented by EECU and University Industrial Park. Anyone can join the fight against hunger and gain free admittance to the fair by bringing five or more...
Prachumsri Named Men’s Volleyball Coach
May 22, 2017
UC Merced’s Athletics Department has hired women's volleyball coach and alumnus Surabordin "Ai" Prachumsri as the men's volleyball head coach. He will remain coach of the women’s team, as well. After stepping in midseason as interim head coach of the men...
Golf Fundraiser Catapults to New Record
May 19, 2017
The seventh annual Building Future Champions Dinner and Auction and the 20th annual Ma Kelley Memorial Shoot-Out golf tournament, held over two days last month at the Turlock Golf and Country Club, were a win-win for participants and for UC Merced Athletics. Keynote speaker Dave Dravecky, a former...
Governor Names Harris to Fair Employment and Housing Council
May 18, 2017
Mark T. Harris, J.D., has been appointed to the California Fair Employment and Housing Council by Gov. Jerry Brown. Harris is a continuing lecturer of management and business economics at UC Merced since 2008 and a practicing attorney in Sacramento. From 1999 to 2001, Harris served as...
Mike Barbee Named New Cross Country Coach
April 28, 2017
UC Merced’s Athletics Department has hired Mike Barbee as men's and women's cross country coach. A 14-year coaching veteran with experience at the NCAA, community college and high school levels, Barbee joins the Bobcats as the fourth head coach in program history. "We are...
Students Recognized at Leadership Awards Event
April 24, 2017
Student leaders, advisors, campus organizations and athletes were recognized at the annual the Margo F. Souza Student Leadership Center 2017 Leadership Awards celebration on April 23. A campuswide selection committee chose the winners for their outstanding performance in a variety of student...
Campus to Showcase Sustainability Initiatives During Earth Week
April 13, 2017
Earth Week is UC Merced’s chance to highlight some of the ways the campus community is committed to being good stewards of the environment. From working to divert all waste from the landfill to operating smart energy-monitoring systems in buildings to help reduce the campus’s...
Cheer Team Takes Second Place at National Competition
April 11, 2017
UC Merced’s Cheer Team traveled to Anaheim last month to compete alongside 11 other teams in the 2017 USA Collegiate Championships, placing second in the Four-Year Large Coed division.             Overall, 49 colleges were represented at...
Hannah Brown Named Second Women's Soccer Coach
April 10, 2017
With nine seniors graduating, the UC Merced’s women’s soccer will take to the field with many new faces in the fall, including Hannah Brown at the helm. Brown was recently named the team’s second head coach, after Megan Atoigue stepped down last month. As the lead assistant...
Alchemy Turns Thought into Art
April 5, 2017
Join renowned artist Dwight Wigley and create your own piece of a community art project. As part of the annual Merced Art Hop, everyone is invited to paint tiles that will be placed into a structure designed by Wigley to create a collective work of art. Each contributor will be photographed with...
Meza Elected to AAAS Executive Committee
April 5, 2017
School of Natural Sciences Dean Juan Meza was recently elected to the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s (AAAS) Committee on Council Affairs. His selection became official during this year’s annual AAAS conference in Boston in late February. His term lasts two years...
Campus Members Take a Stand Against Sexual Violence
April 3, 2017
April marks Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM) on campus and across the nation. A series of events hosted by UC Merced’s Campus Advocacy, Resources and Education (CARE) Office. give campus community members opportunities to increase awareness and advocate for sexual assault prevention...
UC Merced Celebrates Pride Week
March 22, 2017
Lambda Alliance, in collaboration with other campus units, offices and departments, will host UC Merced’s annual Pride Week program celebrating LGBTQ+ identity and culture. From April 3-9, students and staff and faculty members are encouraged to participate in numerous activities taking...
Donation Encourages Grad Students to Share Their Research
March 13, 2017
The contest for top honors in UC Merced’s Grad Slam competition will be even more intense this year thanks to a generous donation from Jane Binger, Ed.D., and her husband, Robert Bernstein, M.D. Binger and Bernstein — a UC Merced Foundation Board of Trustees diplomat and a UC Merced...
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