Campus News
March 15, 2012
UC Merced’s Center for Educational Partnerships receives
funding to expand programming in local high schools
. The University of California, Merced, has announced a $33,000 donation from Citi to support its...
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March 14, 2012
UC Merced Professor Shawn Newsam receives prestigious National Science Foundation award to fund work on gathering geographic insight from user-submitted photos and videos. Mapping what is where on the earth’s...
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February 7, 2012
Professor Ashlie MartiniProfessor Ashlie Martini was looking for the chance to make a difference when she took a post at UC Merced.
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February 6, 2012
New center aims to improve the lives of the San Joaquin Valley's most underserved residents by empowering them to engage in research that supports their community’s issues. An innovative community-university...
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February 3, 2012
Four projects will increase campus' physical space by 25 percent, adding nearly 270,000 gross square feet. Planned Science and Engineering Building 2 (rendering)UC Merced is entering a significant new phase...
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January 27, 2012
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January 24, 2012
University of California's online instruction program is a systemwide effort that aims to explore and develop the use of online education in UC's undergraduate curriculum. UC Merced is the first campus...
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January 23, 2012
UC Merced engineering Professor Ming-Hsuan Yang receives National Science Foundation's CAREER Award to improve visual tracking abilities in machines. Engineering Professor Ming-Hsuan Yang of the University of...
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January 20, 2012
UC Merced honored for utilizing new, effective and innovative systems to evaluate and demonstrate student outcomes. The University of California, Merced, has been awarded the 2012 Council for Higher Education...
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January 18, 2012
Dean of Natural Sciences Juan Meza began his tenure at UC Merced in September, and he wasted no time in meeting with undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and staff to learn about the areas where the school is...
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January 12, 2012
UC Merced receives more than 15,000 applications, a nearly 10 percent boost over 2011. More than 15,000 undergraduate students applied to UC Merced for Fall 2012, up nearly 10 percent from 2011.The University of...
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January 6, 2012
Graduate student Peter Kirchner conducts mountain hydrology research with Professor Roger Bales in the Sierra Nevada Research Institute.Peter Kirchner may have been born in California’s San Fernando Valley, but...
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December 23, 2011
UC Merced’s Staff Assembly wrapped up its 2011 canned food drive, collecting more than 385 pounds of nonperishable food items for the Merced County Food Bank. From spearheading canned food drives to collecting toys for...
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December 22, 2011
UC Merced outreach program receives federal funding to help students
realize their dreams of postsecondary education
. Students from eight San Joaquin Valley high schools are getting extra assistance in...
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December 21, 2011
UC Merced's multidisciplinary research arm continues to grow and address issues that challenge the San Joaquin Valley, the state and the world. The bond between the San Joaquin Valley and the University of...
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December 16, 2011
Roger Tseng, now in his second year of the Quantitative and Systems Biology graduate program, the circadian rhythms of cyanobacteria, which are believed to be one of the Earth’s oldest organisms.Roger Tseng was an...
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December 14, 2011
From improving the performance and efficiency of solar cells to using solar technology to speed up fruit drying, a wide array of topics were covered by distinguished scientists at the UC Solar Research Symposium at UC...
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December 9, 2011
History Professor Ruth Mostern has published a book with Harvard University Press that chronicles the changes made by the Song Dynasty in medieval China. Government, for better or worse, hasn't changed all that...
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December 5, 2011
At the Dec. 7 teach-in, sociology Professor Nella Van Dyke will discuss the factors that make social movements successful and how they relate to the Occupy movement. As the Occupy social movement sweeps across the...
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December 2, 2011
The latest exhibit in the UC Merced Art Gallery, "Our Merced," features more than 70 photographs taken by students.UC Merced can add another first to its list — dedicated space for an art gallery.
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