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Greening the Campus Earns Gold in Sustainability Ratings

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

Bobcat Day Brings Admitted Students to Campus

Bobcat Day is April 16. Students from across California and their family members will converge on the UC Merced campus April 16 for Bobcat Day.

Two Alumni Create Legacies Through Scholarship Endowments

Marko Zivanovic, Chancellor Dorothy Leland and JaeJae JulianJessica “JaeJae” Julian (2010) and Marko Zivanovic (2014) are proving that giving back shortly after graduation can be possible. 

Recovery Group Supports Students Dealing With Addiction

Last fall, UC Merced’s first peer-led recovery program — known as Bobcats for Recovery — began meeting weekly to help support undergraduate and graduate students in recovery from substance use disorders.

As the recovery group’s first coordinator, student John Dovales Flores worked to educate others and change the support culture on campus.

“When you’re doing outreach, there’s a stigma around drug use and recovery,” he said. “We are trying to change the way that we talk about addiction — in the group and across campus.”

New Lecture Series Articulates Campus’s Core Values

Carlos Castillo-Chavez has had, by all accounts, an extraordinarily successful academic career.

He began as an immigrant from Mexico City and wound up researching and teaching at Cornell University for 18 years before moving to Arizona State University in 2004 — with multiple awards and honors in between.

But he didn’t do it alone.