Alumni

Play Ball! Bobcats Enjoy Grizzlies Baseball Game

September 2, 2025

UC Merced chancellor, alumni president, chancellor's wife

Baseball fans from the UC Merced campus community celebrated the start of the fall semester by witnessing a barnburner of a game at Fresno’s Chukchansi Park. More than 250 Bobcat students, along with 100 alumni and their families, received tickets to the Aug. 29 game. UC Merced staff and...

UC Merced student pose for a photo. The image reads, "Give to UC Merced. We did it! Boldly Forward. Thank you for your commitment to the University of California Mrced."

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Graduating students walk pass UC Merced sign

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Alumnus Edwin Shen designed a multi-material bioprinter with novel features that improve resolution and embed hydrogels with concentration gradients of small molecules.

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student wearing regalia, getting their diplomas

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