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 extraordinary leadership, mentorship and community impact in collegiate dining.
Presented by the National...
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Traditional UC Merced events — Homecoming, Preview Day and Family Weekend, plus the Chancellor’s Scholars recognition ceremony — came together for a first-of-its-kind bundle of...

Started in 1981 by the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Domestic Violence Awareness Month (DVAM) is observed in October across the nation. UC Merced’s Campus Advocacy, Resources...

Sarvani Chadalapaka, the high-performance computing (HPC) administrator for UC Merced’s Office of Information Technology, has been named one of six Inclusivity Initiative Scholarship recipients...

UC Merced’s sustainability office is seeking undergraduate students who are thinking about careers in energy to fill this fall’s Energize Colleges internships.
UC Merced is one of...

The UC Merced Faculty and Staff Open Enrollment Benefits Fair is an annual fall tradition. RSVP by Oct. 19, and the Human Resources Benefits Office will even have lunch ready for you.
The event...

It was only after graduate school, while working as a professor, that James Zimmerman realized something had been missing from his education.
Trained as a nuclear scientist, Zimmerman was well-...

The Merced 2020 Project earned two more awards this week, claiming the top prize for Best Social Infrastructure Project at the P3 Awards in Washington, D.C.
UC Merced earned the Gold Award for...

Members of the UC Merced Police Department visited several campus locations last week to play a new question-and-answer game called “Your Campus, Your Police.”
The idea stemmed from a...

When Chigoziri Ibechem attended her first planning commission meeting in downtown Merced last November, she had no idea where it might lead.
After the meeting, the psychology major from Los Angeles...



