Editor's note: This story is republished from the Spring/Summer 2026 issue of UC Merced Magazine.
Walk across UC Merced’s campus on any weekday, and you might hear laughter spilling from a classroom, feel the thrum of a wind tunnel or spot students crouched in a field searching for...
Undergraduate Students

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...

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...

Researchers at UC Merced used fruit flies to uncover a cellular process common to many organisms that could dramatically impact the understanding of cancer and aging.
Department of Molecular and...

More than 170 students have enrolled this fall for classes in UC Merced’s new environmental humanities major, a degree that will prepare them to be advocates and storytellers for the living...

UC Merced said “welcome” to its 2,400 new students Tuesday as only UC Merced can, with a joyous and colorful Scholars Bridge Crossing ceremony that symbolizes their transformation into...

UC Merced political science students returned to Sacramento to get first-hand experience at California’s Capitol with internships.
The Center for Analytic Political Engagement (CAPE)...

This is part of a series of profiles of new UC Merced Bobcats enrolled for the fall 2024 semester.
After diving into robotics in high school, Antonio "Tony" Lopez-Blanco is...

This is part of a series of profiles of new UC Merced Bobcats enrolled for the fall 2024 semester.
Jenna Hinds, a Central Valley native, is bringing spirit to UC Merced. Hinds discovered a...

This is part of a series of profiles of new UC Merced Bobcats enrolled for the fall 2024 semester.
Lucas Khoi Nguyen was a standout student athlete at Atwater High School before signing a...



