A throng of people came to UC Merced on a crisp, blue-sky Saturday for Bobcat Day. More than 7,000 were registered to attend the April 18 event for admitted and prospective first-year and transfer students, along with their families.
The day was an opportunity for people to meet...
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As the Rim Fire continues to burn in and around Yosemite National Park, a former UC Merced student’s work related to the fire burned up the Internet this week.
Paul Doherty, the first Yosemite park...

The youngest University of California campus is now the steward of some ancient remains.
Columbian mammoth bones dating back to the last Ice Age were transferred recently to a storage...

The University of California, Merced, kicks off its 2013-14 academic year today with the largest and most diverse class of incoming freshmen, the largest contingent of graduate students, the largest...

Although the UC Merced campus is entering its ninth academic year, the campus is still in a constant state of expansion.
To fill a demand for more housing, the newest residence hall — Half Dome — was...

Jonathan D. Jansen, vice chancellor and rector of the University of the Free State and South Africa’s first black dean, has been named the 2013 recipient of the Alice and Clifford Spendlove Prize in...

UC Merced announces the U.S. Green Building Council has awarded platinum LEED certification to the Social Sciences and Management Building.
Every building project on campus has already or is expected...

In John Bultena’s writing classes, students often explore new literary classics. Like “Batwoman Volume 1: Hydrology.”
Bultena, a lecturer in UC Merced’s Merritt Writing Program and recent panelist at...

MERCED, Calif. — Immigration judges should be allowed to consider a person’s family and social ties to the United States before ordering the deportation of legal permanent residents for minor...

Not everyone can go out into the Sierra Nevada and experience snowpack research or wildlife conservation firsthand.
That’s why Robin Milford, access services librarian and exhibits coordinator for...



