First. Further. Forward

Sow and Grow Workshops Connect Smart Farm, Community

November 13, 2025

Photo depicts Ph.D. student Lynn Breithaupt holding up a native plant cutting.

On a chilly autumn morning at the UC Merced Experimental Smart Farm, about a dozen people enthusiastically dug/plunged their hands into soil in an exercise on how to propagate plants. For the less horticulturally inclined, propagating is the process of creating new plants from a single parent...

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College and K-12 Faculty Strengthen Collaboration for Central Valley Students

More than two dozen educators from kindergarten through college converged at UC Merced to discuss the challenges they're facing and the opportunities ahead. The Oct. 21 event, hosted by the...

Photo depicts trees that survived a fire, surrounded by ash on the ground.

Thinning, Burning Forests Provide Multiple Benefits, Some of Them Surprising

Wildfires are growing more frequent and severe across the western United States, and California's Sierra Nevada is ground zero. Decades of fire suppression have left these forests overstocked and...

Photo depicts a crowd of students in front of a UCM letter installation on the UC Merced campus.

Hundreds Gather at UC Merced to Explore Graduate School Pathways

UC Merced buzzed with energy as nearly 800 students and 200 recruiters, staff and volunteers from across California converged on campus on Oct. 18 for the California Forum for Diversity in...

Photo depicts a bee on a blossom at UC Merced.

UC Merced Joins Program Promoting Bees Around Campus

UC Merced has long been a place where students can thrive. Now the university has been recognized for its commitment to increase the abundance of native and other pollinators. The campus has...

Winery Executive Stephanie Gallo Joins UC Merced Foundation Board of Trustees

The UC Merced Foundation has named Stephanie Gallo, chief marketing officer at GALLO, to its Board of Trustees. A respected community leader and seasoned executive, Gallo brings extensive experience...

Agricultural Leader Jay Mahil Appointed to UC Merced Foundation Board of Trustees

Community leader and Creekside Company co-owner Jay Mahil has been named to the UC Merced Foundation Board of Trustees. A fourth-generation farmer and the first in his family born in the United...

United for Education: Merced Institutions Forge a Stronger Future Together at UC Merced Summit

In an unprecedented show of unity, leaders from Merced City School District, Merced Union High School District, Merced College and UC Merced came together to discuss how continued collaboration can...

Multinational Effort to Map South Africa’s Biodiversity from the Air Earns NASA Award

BioSCape, a multinational research project co-led by UC Merced, the University at Buffalo and the University of Cape Town, which monitored Earth’s biodiversity from the air, has received a...

Dr. Michael Galvez speaks to students at UC Merced about National Latino Physician Day.

Need for More Latino Doctors Highlighted at UC Merced Event

In the United States, 20 percent of the population is Latino. By 2050, it’s expected that one in three people will identify as Latino. But less than 7 percent of doctors come from a similar...