Researchers are collaborating with area medical leaders to better understand valley fever with the goal of someday listing it in the history books alongside diseases such as polio and measles.

UC Merced's energy dashboard shows the campus community in real-time where energy is being used and where it could be saved.

The Outdoor Experience Program offers students, faculty, staff and community members the opportunity to explore some of the world's natural wonders, including Zion National Park, Big Sur and Yosemite National Park.

Biologists discovered a new way in which bone health impacts a person's immune system, a compelling finding for scientists working to combat bone-related diseases.

In the News

SF Chronicle
April 24, 2013
I'm getting probably one of the best opportunities for a quality education here.
Zachary Mondo, Student
UC Merced goes from shunned to popular
The Fresno Bee
April 14, 2013
We are trying very hard to keep as much as we can from entering the landfill. It is better for us and better for the environment.
Matt Hirota, Waste reduction/recycle coordinator
UC Merced working to wipe out food waste
Merced Sun-Star
April 9, 2013
There is substantial statistical and case study evidence that magnet schools can improve student learning and behavior, enhance diversity, as well as ease overcrowding.
Irenee Beattie, Professor of Sociology
Magnet schools logical alternative for Merced
Reporting on Health
February 21, 2013
(Interning at Golden Valley Health Centers) was life-changing. It left me with a burning desire to really pursue a medical education program and continue to contribute to the health care needs of the neediest in the Central Valley community.
Isidro Ramirez, UC Merced alumnus
Internship program provides students with 'life-changing' opportunities in health field

Headlines

Professor Alberto CerpaA five-year CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation is helping Professor Alberto Cerpa develop the next big breakthrough in wireless sensor networks – an autonomous, self-learning...
Andrew Zumkehr has mapped every square foot of abandoned farmland in the United States.Working to map every square inch, UC Merced master’s student Andrew Zumkehr found there are 111 million acres of abandoned farmland...
Debby Lee, left, and Meagan Moreno received a fellowship to support them during their first biomedical research experience this summer. Two UC Merced undergraduates will spend the summer immersed in research after...
Using some of the tiniest fossils in the world to help clarify how climate change is modeled has earned Professor Jessica Blois a big honor – publication in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
Armanti Hardesty will pursue his teaching credential at Fresno Pacific University, a path that was aided by the campus's CalTeach/UC Science and Math Initiative.Armanti Hardesty is ready to join the next generation of...
Professor Kathleen Hull and undergraduate students examine tools from UC Merced's anthropology teaching laboratory.With a growing collection of artifacts and replicas, UC Merced's anthropology teaching laboratory gives...
  Alumnus Justin Duckham serves as a senior Washington correspondent with Talk Radio News Service.As a founding student at UC Merced, Justin Duckham, ’09, trudged up the hill every day for classes. Now, he spends...
Graduate student Stephanie Huette will start in the fall at the University of Memphis, where she will teach and continue her research in a tenure-track position.Graduate student Stephanie Huette knew she would face...
More than 1,000 students will turn their tassels at commencement this weekend; most graduates in the campus’s history .  This year isn’t the first time Maxine Umeh-Garcia has walked across the commencement stage...
  Computer science and engineering major Andy Luhrs has landed a job working for Microsoft beginning in July.On his first tour of UC Merced almost five years ago, Andy Luhrs decided the campus was the right place...