By Lorena Anderson, University Communications

One of the campus’s newest professors is teaching one of its newest classes on one of the world’s oldest subjects: dinosaurs.

But there’s much more to Professor Justin Yeakel’s Natural History of Dinosaurs class than just talking about T-rex and the velociraptors.

Imagine trying to reverse engineer a car when all you have is a finished product or a box full of parts — no instructions.

The number, size and duration of large mountain forest fires in the Western United States has increased dramatically in the past 40 years, according to research from UC Merced

Everyone knows UC Merced is growing, but pretty soon, the campus will be growing lots of plant specimens for research, too.

Editor’s note: This story originally appeared in the spring 2016 issue of UC Merced Magazine. Laura Showalter will represent the schools of Natural Sciences and Engineering as student speaker at this Sunday’s commencement ceremony.

The UC Merced campus is getting greener and earning gold as it does — gold ratings, that is.

A proposal to conduct high-performance computing across science and engineering disciplines has won UC Merced and Professor Christine Isborn a research computing cluster that will be used for a variety of projects across campus.

Before you place any bets on the next NBA playoff games,

Researchers at the University of California, Merced, won a $5 million gran