Students who arrive at UC Merced planning on specific careers often discover along the way that their interests — and strengths — are broader than they first imagined.
A new initiative called Education Tracks, or EdTracks, is designed to give students a flexible, low‑risk way to...
Lorena Anderson

MERCED, Calif. — A global sustainable architecture competition is turning all eyes to the University of California, Merced, the newest campus in the UC system, and the only one to have all its...

MERCED, Calif. — A $1.9 million grant from the National Science Foundation will support a five-year investigation by University of California, Merced, researchers into environmental changes in marine...

Shrubs blooming in a specific area of Africa might hold the answers to feeding millions of people on that continent, and possibly others.
UC Merced Professor Teamrat Ghezzehei, his doctoral student,...

Professor Arnold Kim’s music couldn’t be more different than that of student-staff-alumni band Feeling Gravity’s Pull.
Kim’s The Yellow Hope Project work is heavily influenced by what he has been...

UC Merced’s first NAIA women’s soccer team is going to have a short season – five home games and nine away games.
That’s by design.
New head coach Megan Atoigue said this is the time to set the...

The UC Merced Yosemite Leadership Program’s first full-time leader plans to build on the program’s momentum and expand its visibility.
Jacob Croasdale was recently selected to oversee the 3-year-old...

From the white, sugary sands of Hawaii to the white, powdery slopes of the Sierra Nevada, Natural Sciences Professor Stephen Hart has his eye on climate change.
For the past two years, the professor...

UC Merced’s library used to be one of the trashiest places on campus – patrons generated a lot more garbage than recycling.
But all that garbage led to an invention by two campus staff members that...

Nine new members of this year’s UC Merced Women’s Volleyball team, from all around the Central Valley, are among the campus’s first group of recruited student athletes.
They began practice and...



