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Merced 2020 Project Earns Thomson Reuters Award

The Merced 2020 Project — UC Merced’s unprecedented, $1.3 billion campus expansion plan — has been named the “Americas P3 Deal of the Year” in Thomson Reuters’ Project Finance International (PFI) Awards.

Economic Impact of Campus Rises to $2.6 Billion

Even before its unprecedented expansion through the Merced 2020 Project, the University of California, Merced, has directly contributed more than $1.4 billion to the San Joaquin Valley economy to date, and more than $2.6 billion to the state’s economy, according to the university’s annual Economic Impact Report.

In-State Demand for UC Merced Admission Hits a Record High

The University of California, Merced, received more than 18,000 applications from California high school seniors seeking admission for Fall 2017 — a 10.1 percent increase from the previous year, or the largest percent increase in the UC system.

Yara North America Supports UC Merced Students, Ag Research

A contribution from Yara North America will provide the University of California, Merced, with the potential to take agricultural research to a new level of innovation and improve crop yields, particularly in almonds.

Massive VR System Links Merced to the World

Visitors experience the WAVE, a 20-screen, 3-D visualization system.Imagine being able to explore the newly discovered hidden chambers in the Great Pyramid of Giza or microstructures within the human brain, to work on big-data pro

Student, Alumni Creating a Culture of Giving on Campus

Alumni Brandon Ruscoe and Ketih Ellis, Chancellor Dorothy Leland and student Christopher BernalManagement and business economics major Christopher Bernal is leaving a legacy at UC Merced, as the first student to establish an endowed s