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Month of Giving Surpasses Fundraising Goal

January 13, 2021
During December, the Give to UC Merced 2020 initiative tripled the campus’s goal of raising $50,000. The final tally: $163,000 raised for a variety of campus initiatives and programs. The fundraising initiative has traditionally been held on a single day, but in 2020 it was expanded to one...

UC Merced Student Athletes Boast Record Setting Fall Semester

January 12, 2021

UC Merced: Looking Back on 2020

January 12, 2021
There was an undeniable feeling of optimism and excitement in January 2020, as the calendar turned to a new year at the University of California, Merced. The university would be welcoming its fourth chancellor in the summer, and celebrating its 15th anniversary and the opening of a slew of shiny...

EECS Grad Student Awarded Google Ph.D. Fellowship

January 11, 2021
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Ph.D. student Xueting Li is a recipient of the 13th annual Google Ph.D. Fellowship Program. Li works in Professor Ming-Hsuan Yang’s Vision and Learning Lab and her research focuses on computer vision and deep learning, especially on the area of...

UC Plans for Fall 2021 In-person Instruction Across Its 10 Campuses

January 11, 2021
The University of California announced today that it is planning for a return to primarily in-person instruction systemwide starting in fall 2021. The announcement is intended to provide prospective and current students and their families time to understand the University’s goals and plans...

UC Merced Grad Deals Town a Great Deck of Cards

January 1, 2021

California's Wildfire Hell: The State's Worst Fire Season

December 30, 2020

Death and Denial Rage in a California COVID Epicenter

December 22, 2020

Chemical Biology Lab Creating DNA-based Nanomachines that can Self Assemble

December 21, 2020
Professor Tao Ye and colleagues have received a $1.18 million grant from the Department of Energy to study how DNA molecules can arrange themselves into nanostructures that could form the basis of nanoelectronic circuits. All living things are the products of self-assembly, a process in which...

Virtual Fall Commencement Customized for Grads

December 17, 2020
UC Merced will host its second virtual ceremony for the Fall 2020 Commencement on Dec. 19, with a host of changes meant to confer upon students the distinct importance of the achievement. New this time: Each of the three schools — Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts; Natural Sciences; and...

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