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.”
Most people probably don’t think about food when considering how to celebrate Earth Day.
Arturo Durazo, winner of this year’s UC Merced GradSLAM! competition, has a personal connection to his research.
Students from across California and their family members will converge on the UC Merced campus April 16 for 
UC Merced’s 
The Victory Over Violence (VOV) exhibit is on display through April 1 in the Leo and Dottie Kolligian Library, Room 355, to help raise awareness of the need to overcome violence.
Graduate student Sabah Ul-Hasan translated her love of science into four separate college degrees.
UC Merced’s Pride Week kicks off March 28.
Junior Sammantha Fajardo wasn’t satisfied with merely representing UC Merced on the cross country course, so she stepped up to represent the university’s student-athletes at the national level.
