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History Student Fulfills Speaking Promise at Commencement
May 6, 2011
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Dulcemaria Anaya once vowed to represent her UC Merced class as the student speaker at commencement. Anaya, a world history major from Merced, was an incoming freshman when she made the promise to her mother and herself. Over the... Read More
UC Merced Scientist Awarded Fulbright Fellowship
May 4, 2011
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Andrea Joyce, an assistant research scientist with the Sierra Nevada Research Institute (SNRI) at the University of California, Merced, was recently awarded a Fulbright fellowship to study beneficial insects in El Salvador. The Fulbright... Read More
Seminar Helps Park Leaders Plan for Future
April 28, 2011
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When it comes to management and preservation of public lands, park leaders have a simple choice: Be proactive or reactive. And that decision isn't easy. Park leaders are faced with issues like climate change, habitat loss,... Read More
Southern California Edison Gives $250K for Energy, Water Research
April 28, 2011
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Dozens of students at the University of California, Merced, will be able to research new ways of increasing energy efficiency and protecting our environmental resources thanks to a $250,000 gift to the campus from Southern California... Read More
Annual Donors Connecting, Shaping the Future
April 22, 2011
A group of university supporters from various professions and backgrounds have something in common — they've joined UC Merced's Chancellor's Associatesand found a way to connect with the campus and stand behind its... Read More
UC Merced Joins NAIA in Four Sports
April 19, 2011
Men's basketball, women's volleyball and men's and women's cross country teams will begin competing at the varsity intercollegiate level in the 2011-12 academic year Quick Facts UC Merced was approved this week... Read More
Foster Poultry Farms Donates $1 Million forScholarships
April 18, 2011
Gift will help ease financial burden for UC Merced students Quick Facts Foster Poultry Farms has made a $1 million pledge toward student scholarships at UC Merced. The company has donated nearly $2.3 million to the campus... Read More
Sustainability Research Opportunities Abound for 2010 Grad
April 15, 2011
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Andrea Mercado has a knack for finding opportunity. She left her hometown of Lake Arrowhead in Southern California for college in Seattle, but a year later, her horizons opened up in a different direction. "I transferred to UC Merced my... Read More
Research Week to Celebrate Work of Faculty, Students
April 12, 2011
Research Week, the annual celebration of faculty and student research at the University of California, Merced, returns this month with a student research poster competition and a number of lectures and symposia. Research Week's... Read More
Earth Week Celebration Grows in Second Year
April 8, 2011
Now in its second year, UC Merced's student-run Earth Week celebration is growing and evolving. Organized by junior Diana Franklin — the Associated Students of UC Merced's Commissioner of Sustainability — the five-day fete will begin with... Read More
Marine Biologist Awarded Prestigious GuggenheimFellowship
April 7, 2011
Mónica Medina, a biology professor in the School of Natural Sciences at the University of California, Merced, has been awarded the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced today. Medina is... Read More
Volleyball Team Ready for Next Step
April 3, 2011
If there was any question whether UC Merced was ready to take its sports teams to a higher competitive level, the women's volleyball club team has proved it this year. When senior Kayla Taylor first joined the team as a freshman,... Read More
Former State Supreme Court Justice to Receive SpendlovePrize
March 31, 2011
Cruz Reynoso, who has spent his life fighting for immigrants' rights, will be the 2011 recipient of UC Merced's Alice and Clifford Spendlove Prize in Social Justice, Diplomacy and Tolerance Quick Facts Cruz Reynoso, a... Read More
Diverse Physics Faculty Above National Average, Earn Prestigious Awards
March 25, 2011
UC Merced's physicsgroup is defying the odds. Women make up 14 percent of physics faculty at U.S. degree-granting institutions, according to a 2010 survey by the American Institute of Physics. At UC Merced, three of the eight... Read More
Undergraduates Assist Merced High School Students with Key Exam
March 18, 2011
Six UC Merced students are showing their passion for serving the community by tutoring a group of Merced High School students who are in danger of failing a key exit exam. The group was organized by world history major... Read More
UC Merced Options Set Engineering Alumnus on the Right Path
March 11, 2011
Unlike many other schools, UC Merced allows freshman students to enter with a major of "engineering - undeclared." For Matt Nelson, now looking back on his freshman year more than five years down the line, the option proved a... Read More
Statement from UC Merced Chancellor Steve Kang
March 11, 2011
I am deeply shocked and saddened by the news of the tragic 8.9-magnitude earthquake and ensuing tsunami that struck Japan today. This major catastrophe has caused heavy damage, apparently mostly in the northeastern portion of the country... Read More
National Parks, Reserved Lands the Focus of Leadership Seminar
March 9, 2011
From California's Sierra foothills to Sweden's Tyresta forest, the problems facing the world's national parks and reserved lands are immense and require a new way of thinking. Park leaders from across the globe are being... Read More
Professor Studies Early Childhood Development
March 4, 2011
UC Merced Professor Rose Scott studies how young children begin to understand the social world and all its complexities. It happens sooner than most would think. Babies who are three months old can begin to show they understand... Read More
Wireless Sensors to Improve Sierra Snowpack Measurements
March 3, 2011
More than half of the water used in California for farming and drinking and other everyday uses comes by way of runoff from the Sierra Nevada, and gauging the amount of snow there and predicting how much runoff there will be is an annual... Read More