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UC Merced Celebrates Pride Week

Pride Week 2017 is April 3-9.Lambda Alliance, in collaboration with other campus units, offices and departments, will host UC Merced’s annual Pride Week program celebrating LGBTQ+ identity and culture.

Pulitzer Winner, HP Executive to Speak at Commencement Ceremonies

Lesley Slaton BrownPulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Héctor Tobar and HP Inc. Chief Diversity Officer Lesley Slaton Brown are the keynote speakers for the University of California, Merced’s 12th commencement exercises, May 13 and 14.

Blum Center Relaunching With Focus on Food

Everyone in the campus community can get fresh produce from the farmers market truck that comes to campus each week.UC Merced is relaunching its branch of the Blum Center for Developing Economies with a focus on food secur

Campus Provides ‘Inclusive Excellence’ Dialogue, Activities

Social Justice Initiatives and the Office of Campus Climate will host “Talking Circles,” a space to create dialogue about inclusive opportunities at UC Merced, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Jan. 20. The space is open to the campus community for reflection, quiet contemplation, crafting and individual connection.

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

Annual Event Celebrates All Things Sustainable

Students plant herbs at EcoFest. The Student Sustainability Council is hosting the second annual EcoFest from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 27, on Scholars Lane, hoping to encourage the campus’s culture of sustainability.

UC Merced Chosen to Lead Agricultural Archiving Project

Lisa Vallen is leading the effort to digitize the UC ANR archives.UC Merced has been chosen as the hub of an archiving initiative aimed to document and preserve the history of the UC Cooperative Extension (UCCE).