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UC Merced Ranks in the Top 10 for Economic Mobility

September 7, 2023
UC Merced is among the top 10 U.S. universities for driving economic mobility for its graduates, according to a new study by think tank Third Way. In its second annual national assessment of the impact of higher education on students and families, the Economic Mobility Index, Third Way ranked...

Department of Energy Awards $37 Million to Build Research Capacity

September 7, 2023
Five faculty members from the School of Natural Sciences received grants recently from the Department of Energy (DOE) under its Funding for Accelerated, Inclusive Research (FAIR) initiative. To support research at minority-serving institutions and emerging research institutions, the DOE...

UC Merced Ranked 15th Best Public College in the Nation By Wall Street Journal

September 6, 2023
UC Merced has been recognized by the Wall Street Journal Best Colleges in the U.S. ranking published today. Out of 400 universities that were looked at nationwide, UC Merced came in at No. 15 for public institutions. The university was ranked No. 59 overall. This latest...

Zulema Valdez Appointed Associate Vice Chancellor for EJIE

September 5, 2023
Zulema Valdez has been selected as UC Merced’s associate vice chancellor for Equity, Justice and Inclusive Excellence (EJIE). In making the announcement, Vice Chancellor and Chief Diversity Officer Delia Saenz said, "Professor Valdez brings substantial leadership experience to this...

UC Merced, Merced College to Provide New Housing for Transfer Students

September 1, 2023
UC Merced and Merced College will jointly build a 488-bed student housing project for community college and transfer students. The California Legislature gave final approval to the $100 million funding mechanism for the project on Wednesday, Aug. 30. The Promise Housing facility will offer rooms...

MERCED SUN-STAR: UC Merced, Merced College to build $100 million housing facility for qualifying students

September 1, 2023

NIH Grant to Study Immigration Policy Impacts on Mental Health and Access to Health Care for Latinos in Rural Communities

August 30, 2023
UC Merced public health Professor Maria-Elena De Trinidad Young has been awarded an R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The $3 million grant will fund Young's ambitious, five-year research project to understand how immigration policy influences health care access and...

Department of Energy Grant will Fund EECS Professor Lu's Research into Improving Federated Machine Learning

August 29, 2023
UC Merced Computer Science and Engineering Professor Xiaoyi Lu is leading a collaboration that secured a $4.35 million grant from the Department of Energy (DOE) to improve federated machine learning systems. Lu is partnering with the University of Iowa and Argonne National Laboratory...

Founding Faculty Member Martha Conklin Bids Farewell to Campus Community

August 28, 2023
Professor Martha Conklin started her career at UC Merced at the Castle Research Facility, and it began with a frightening surprise. “I had a baby rattlesnake in my office,” she said. “The whole building was snake-infested before UC Merced moved in. But it's a small thing...

Mega-Interstellar Structure Fuels Undergraduate’s Winning Research

August 28, 2023
Big-wave surfing is a thing these days, but hardly anyone is riding a wave as big as the one Biviana Oseguera is on. The physics major is studying the 9,000-light-year long Radcliffe Wave, a structure made of clouds of dust and young stars that form a wave-like structure through the Milky Way...

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