In recognition of its growing national reputation, UC Merced has been named the 30th best public university in the country by U.S. News & World Report. The announcement was made today as part of USNWR’s 2027 Best Colleges list, the esteemed annual report that tabulates more than 1,700...
Staff & Faculty News

UCLA was a huge change for Jose León. The college transfer student from a small town and a tight-knit extended family struggled to relate to classmates from bigger cities.
Then, at a student...

Computer Science and Engineering Professor Wan Du and his students Kang Yang, Yuanlin Yang, Yuning Chen, and Sikai Yang, along with UC San Diego Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor...

Key Findings:
Interest in agricultural technology is here. Among 10,856 respondents from Central Valley agricultural communities, 16.5% expressed interest in agtech...

It might seem that an airfield filled with old planes is a strange place to talk about the future of space flight. But Jared Isaacman, the administrator of NASA, said the Castle Air Museum was the...

Two UC Merced-affiliated scientists have joined University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources.
Lauren Hale, a soil microbiologist in UC Merced's Department Life and Environmental...

Wildfire is reshaping the forests of California's Sierra Nevada and affecting the water those forests supply to downstream users.
A paper published in Hydrology and Earth System...

Talk about meta: A pop culture phenomenon is using a pop culture phenomenon to undo the results of a pop culture phenomenon.
And for the fourth consecutive year, paleoecology Professor...

The Pacific Sociological Association recently honored UC Merced sociology Professor Edward Flores, faculty director of the university's Community and Labor Center, with its Distinguished...

Mitch Vanagten, executive chef for UC Merced’s Lakeside Catering, has been named the inaugural recipient of the Paul Fairbrook Spirit of Service Award, a national honor recognizing...



