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The Top Colleges for Helping Students Move Up the Socioeconomic Ladder

September 19, 2024

UC Merced and LACCD Forge New Transfer Pathway to Boost Student Access, Success

September 18, 2024
A memorandum of understanding signed between University of California, Merced, and the Los Angeles Community College District this week will extend access for transfer students through the Merced Promise Pathway Program. With an initial goal of attracting 100 qualified LACCD transfer students to...

UC Merced Curates Sweeping Chicano Art Exhibit at 3 Galleries

September 16, 2024
A three-site exhibit is celebrating Chicano art in a collaboration between a university and a community - the culmination of a professor's nine years of effort. "Alma, Corazón, y Vida: Latino Art Legends from the Mike 'Surrito' Echeverría Collection" will be exhibited...

UC Merced Arts Opens Season with LitFest, Musical Tribute to Railroads

September 11, 2024
A celebration of stories and a concert highlighting the history of San Joaquin Valley’s railroads are the opening acts of the 2024-25 UC Merced Arts season . Merced LitFest and Train Station Trios reflect the season’s varied offerings. Gallery exhibitions, concerts, theater...

UC Merced Graduate Ends Exciting Year with Professorship at Cal Poly

September 9, 2024
It is a serious understatement to say Carlos Diaz Alvarenga had a big year: He graduated from UC Merced, successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis and landed a position as an assistant professor at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo. Oh, and he got married. "Yeah, those are all big life events and...

Bakersfield Student Ready to Go the Distance at UC Merced

September 9, 2024
This is part of a series of profiles of new UC Merced Bobcats enrolled for the fall 2024 semester. A high school distance runner from Bakersfield is striding into new territory, becoming the first person in her family to attend college. Leslie Aquino brings academic distinction and a...

Mellon Grant Launches ‘Interwoven Futures’ Community Partnership Project

September 5, 2024
UC Merced has received a $750,000 boost to its mission to invest in the San Joaquin Valley’s unique cultural, creative and linguistic wealth by working with the region’s people to strengthen communities and champion social justice. The university’s Center for the Humanities...

Physics Grad Student Receives Competitive UC Fellowship

September 5, 2024
Ph.D. student Micah Oeur has been awarded a 2024-2025 UC President’s Pre-Professoriate Fellowship to support her physics research and boost her goal to be a professor. PPPF’s goal is to enhance faculty pathways for historically underrepresented groups, particularly Chicanx/Latinx,...

As California Develops More Clean Energy, Researchers Delve Into How to Store it

September 4, 2024
As California lawmakers consider a package of bills aimed at increasing the production of clean energy, a major question arises: How would we store all this new power? Storage is a vital issue because while the state can create plenty of energy through solar, wind and hydro power, there...

UC Merced Ranked No. 1 in the Nation for Social Mobility, No. 18 Overall

September 4, 2024
When it comes to changing the lives of its students, UC Merced is second to none. In the latest Wall Street Journal America's Best Colleges rankings, UC Merced was the No. 1 university in the nation for social mobility — a term used to describe how well colleges and...

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