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Incoming Bobcats ‘Grew Up’ with UC Merced
July 31, 2025
This is part of a series of profiles of new UC Merced Bobcats enrolled for the fall 2025 semester. One could say UC Merced has always been part of incoming Bobcats Ella and Satchel Ortez’s lives. The twins’ father worked for the 10th UC... Read More
UC Merced Recognized Nationally for Excellence, Affordability and Student Success
July 30, 2025
UC Merced remains one of the top universities in the nation according to Money’s 2025 “Best Colleges in America” report. The university earned 4.5 stars out of 5 in Money’s latest poll, which scores over 700 schools. The ratings are based... Read More
New Alumni-Funded Endowment to Champion LGBTQ+ Initiatives at UC Merced
July 29, 2025
A group of dedicated UC Merced alumni have come together to launch an endowed fund focused on supporting LGBTQ+ student initiatives, programs and priorities. Spearheaded by University of California Regent Emeritus Keith Ellis ’12, the... Read More
Black Engineering Society Earns Regional Chapter of the Year
July 29, 2025
The National Society of Black Engineers, established at UC Merced in 2007, is one of the campus’s oldest and most active student organizations. It provides support, guidance and advocacy for its members through their college journeys and... Read More
Community Health Worker Program Celebrates First Graduates
July 28, 2025
The region has nearly 170 newly certified community health workers after the first cohort completed a specialized training program at UC Merced. Graduates of the training, offered through the university’s Professional and Continuing... Read More
Tiny Artificial Cells Can Keep Time, Study Finds
July 28, 2025
A team of UC Merced researchers has shown that tiny artificial cells can accurately keep time, mimicking the daily rhythms found in living organisms. Their findings shed light on how biological clocks stay on schedule despite the inherent... Read More
UC Merced’s Berhe Joins Scientists in Warning of Global Land Mine Crisis
July 24, 2025
More than 100 million land mines remain buried around the world, posing a threat in approximately 70 countries and territories, and killing or injuring about 5,000 people, most of them civilians, every year.  As the world’s geopolitical... Read More
Humanities Grad Student Advocates for Student Parents
July 24, 2025
When Nicolette Lecy began her graduate studies at UC Merced, life was anything but typical. It was August 2020, in the heart of the COVID-19 pandemic. Lecy’s classes were held remotely, and she had limited access to campus. Another... Read More
LiWang’s Research into Biological Clocks Earns Protein Society Honors
July 21, 2025
Professor Andy LiWang knows what makes us tick, at least at a cellular level. His research into the mechanisms of the oldest biological clock known to humankind has led him to understand how proteins — and hence cells — can tell time. It... Read More
Igniting Our Response to Wildfires: the Power of Metaphors
July 21, 2025
As wind-whipped walls of flame destroyed hundreds of Los Angeles-area residences last January, one media report framed the disastrous wildfires in beastly terms, saying they were “ripping through homes.” The report then shifted to... Read More
Professor Dives with Crocs, Displays Megalodon Expertise During Shark Week
July 17, 2025
Shark Week starts Sunday and Professor Sora Kim will be featured again this year in a special airing at 9 p.m. Monday, titled “Jaws vs. Mega Croc,” and the filming allowed her to swim with a Nile crocodile. “I flew to Florida and learned... Read More
UC Investment Academy Propels Students to Financial Career Success
July 14, 2025
This summer, 2024 UC Merced graduate Tatiana Howell is set to begin working as a wealth management analyst with Goldman Sachs. She got the job through tenacity, a strong work ethic and participation in an innovative program that prepared... Read More
UC Merced Breakthrough Could Transform How California Monitors Toxic Algae
July 10, 2025
San Luis Reservoir in Merced County - one of California's largest artificial lakes - not only irrigates Central Valley farmland and supplies drinking water across Silicon Valley and the South Bay, but also draws swimmers, boaters and... Read More
Imagination the Only Limitation at UC Merced's Makerspace
July 9, 2025
UC Merced's Makerspace lab has been living up to its name recently. The School of Engineering's lab, housed in the Sustainability Research and Engineering building, has been increasingly busy. The Makerspace offers services to courses,... Read More
Honors Student from Merced Ready for Next Big Step
July 8, 2025
This is part of a series of profiles of new UC Merced Bobcats enrolled for the fall 2025 semester. Leslie Perez-Cruz will start at UC Merced with several accomplishments already under her belt - she took classes at Merced College while... Read More
Depression Due to Politics: the Quiet Danger to Democracy
July 7, 2025
On laptop screens, televisions and social media feeds across the nation, images and words fueled by a fractured political landscape spout anger, frustration and resentment. Clashing ideologies burst forth in public demonstrations, family... Read More
UC Merced Police Debut Bobcat Safety App to Enhance Campus Security
July 2, 2025
UC Merced students, faculty and staff have access to a new safety tool: the Bobcat Safety App — the university's official safety app — launched by the UC Merced Police Department ahead of the new academic year. The app integrates with UC... Read More
NIH Grant Enables Outstanding Investigator to Advance Knowledge of Microbial Infections
June 30, 2025
The National Institutes of Health are backing Professor Clarissa Nobile ’s mission to understand the mechanisms by which microbes form biofilms, specifically those that can be hazardous to human health. Biofilms are communities of... Read More
UC Merced's Smart Farm Abuzz with Activity
June 25, 2025
At UC Merced's biggest lab, students work from before sunrise to well after dusk. They are operating the university's Experimental Smart Farm, 40 acres of dirt and plants, research and experiments. They study everything from pollinators to... Read More
Project Envisioning Air Transport Between UC Campuses Earns Award
June 24, 2025
A simulation for a proposed air transport system among University of California campuses earned an award for a team of UC Merced students. Advised by mechanical engineering Professor Francesco Danzi, students Kyra Ruiz, Randy Serrano, Ana... Read More