UC Merced employees have established themselves here in every way during the last several years, including giving their time and expertise to community organizations. Several employees serve prominently in some of Merced's most vital service groups.

A group of UC Merced's researchers will focus their expertise on the campus in an effort to determine what can be done to ensure the university has a diverse faculty as it continues to grow.

A new chancellor, more students and additional buildings all on tap for 2011 as
UC Merced heads into the second half of its sixth academic year

In the coming year, the University of California, Merced, will appoint new leadership, open additional buildings, increase enrollment and hire more faculty members.

Campus announces public policy professional with past campus experience will fill the leadership role beginning Jan. 3

Corinne Lucero, who advocated at the federal level on behalf of the University of California, Merced, has been appointed the campus' director of government relations.

The University of California, Merced, will become the new headquarters of Engineers for a Sustainable World effective July 1, the university announced today.

Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW) is a fast-growing, global nonprofit network of about 4,000 students, faculty and professionals dedicated to building a sustainable world for current and future generations by way of collaborative, interdisciplinary engineering projects.

Juan C. Meza, named one of Hispanic Business magazine's 'Top 100 Influentials of 2009,'

is head of high-performance computing research at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

MERCED — The University of California, Merced, today announced the appointment of Juan C. Meza as the new dean of its School of Natural Sciences. He will join UC Merced in the fall.

University awarded 1,000th degree during ceremony; Kang urges graduates to act as global citizens and stewards in his final commencement address as chancellor

More than 200 university alumni and friends converged in Sacramento today (March 1) for UC Day, an effort to advocate for a long-term funding solution to maintain the quality of the University of California.

UC faces a proposed $500 million cut in the state's 2011-12 budget as California struggles to recover from a $25 billion deficit.