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‘Diverse’ Magazine Names Groundbreaking Professor an Emerging Scholar
January 26, 2017
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The magazine Diverse: Issues in Higher Education has named UC Merced Professor Ala Qattawi an Emerging Scholar of the Year in its first issue of 2017. Qattawi, with the School of Engineering, is the first woman in the United States to... Read More
Bird Researcher Expands Knowledge About Reserve’s Kestrels
January 23, 2017
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Kestrels are a fixture among the birds on the Merced Vernal Pools and Grassland Reserve adjacent to campus. Though they are not endangered, the small falcons’ population has declined by 60 percent in California over the past half-... Read More
Artist-in-Residence Brings Theories of Flight to Classroom, Community
January 19, 2017
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Spanish artist Olga Diego blends the concepts of art and engineering into the magic of flight. This semester, Diego is bringing her creativity and expertise to UC Merced as the campus’s newest artist-in-residence and lecturer. Diego... Read More
Campus Provides ‘Inclusive Excellence’ Dialogue, Activities
January 19, 2017
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... Read More
Genetic Changes Made Native Americans Susceptible to Smallpox, Study Shows
January 18, 2017
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A new study identifies genetic changes in Native Americans that came about when Europeans settled in the Pacific Northwest and might have played a major role in why so many natives died of infectious disease. In a new paper in Nature... Read More
Campus Gets $2.2 Million From State to Expand Entrepreneurial Reach
January 17, 2017
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UC Merced’s share of $22 million in state funds through Assembly Bill 2664 will help the campus fulfill some of its primary goals: transforming the region economically and providing people with greater opportunity. Each of the 10 UC... Read More
Cognitive Scientist Earns Early Career Impact Award
January 13, 2017
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UC Merced Professor Rick Dale is a recipient of the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences (FABBS) Early Career Impact Award from the Society for Computers in Psychology. Dale, a cognitive scientist in the... Read More
Merced 2020 Project Earns Thomson Reuters Award
January 12, 2017
The Merced 2020 Project — UC Merced’s unprecedented, $1.3 billion campus expansion plan — has been named the “Americas P3 Deal of the Year” in Thomson Reuters’ Project Finance International (PFI) Awards... Read More
Students Building Living Machines Out of Engineered Tissues
January 11, 2017
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There are many labs at UC Merced where visitors can see students huddled over microscopes and petri dishes, using tweezers to extract and examine different items. But no one at UC Merced has ever seen the likes of what’s going on in... Read More
History Professor to Give Talk in Turlock on the Graphic Novel
January 11, 2017
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UC Merced history Professor Mario Sifuentez will present a lecture, “Histories and the Graphic Novel,” at the Carnegie Arts Center in Turlock at 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 15. Sifuentez will discuss how the medium of the graphic... Read More
Study: Early High-Altitude Settlers Were Hunter-Gatherers, Not Farmers
January 5, 2017
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A new paper by UC Merced Professor Mark Aldenderfer begins to settle a longstanding debate over when people began permanently occupying higher elevations of the Tibetan Plateau, and shows communities did not have to be based around... Read More
Scientists Build Synthetic Cell-Sized Membranes Out of Paper
January 4, 2017
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Scientists have been synthesizing lipid membranes from a variety of materials, making them as lifelike as possible to learn more about how cells work and how they can be manipulated. UC Merced Professor Anand Subramaniam and his students... Read More
Professor’s Himalayan Archaeological Finds Documented on ‘NOVA’
January 3, 2017
Join UC Merced Professor Mark Aldenderfer as he and his colleagues explore the world’s highest cave tombs, revealing new details about the lives of the people who settled the Himalaya, in the season premiere of “NOVA” on... Read More
Campus Community Steps Up to Make a Difference
December 20, 2016
CASA representatives receive gifts donated by UC Merced campus members for children of Merced County.
  From canned food to toys, UC Merced campus members enthusiastically contributed to a host of philanthropic activities this holiday season, all of which benefit the greater Merced community.   These efforts further the campus... Read More
Grad Students Help Begin Academic Exchange With Honduras
October 20, 2016
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Four UC Merced graduate students got a rare opportunity to establish and strengthen relationships between the campus and the National Autonomous University of Honduras (UNAH) this summer. The students — Danielle Bermudez,... Read More
GirlCode Workshop Aims to Address STEM Gender Gap
August 10, 2016
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Women make up about half of the nation’s college-educated workforce, but in the fields of science and engineering, that drops to less than 30 percent. UC Merced’s STEM Resource Center is working to change that discrepancy by... Read More
Campus Announces Major Expansion
June 15, 2016
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The University of California, Merced, today named Plenary Properties Merced (PPM) the winning bidder for its next major phase of campus development – an unprecedented four-year project that will nearly double the physical capacity of... Read More
Congratulations to #UCM2016, UC Merced's 11th Graduating Class
May 17, 2016
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The campus posted 122 updates to social media over the weekend. Here is a curated collection of those and ones shared by members of our community. [View the story "Commencement 2016" on Storify]
Campus Named to Carnegie List of Research Universities
February 12, 2016
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The University of California, Merced, has been designated a “doctoral-granting university with higher research activity” — or R2, the second-highest classification for American research universities — in its first... Read More
Biologist Earns Prestigious Guest Professorship in Germany
January 27, 2016
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Computational biologist David Ardell has been awarded the 2016 Julius Kuehn Professorship by the academic senate of Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in Germany. Ardell, a professor in UC Merced’s School of Natural Sciences... Read More