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Grad Student’s Passion for Prince Fuels Research

May 9, 2018
Dig if you will, a picture: the chance to study Prince – the musician and purveyor of all things purple -- as a subject of academic research. UC Merced’s Dalena Ngo did. For years, Ngo – a Minnesota native and lifelong Prince fan – wanted to examine aspects of the...

DCC Building Wins Blueprint Award for “Smart Growth”

May 9, 2018
UC Merced built its Downtown Campus Center (DCC) for two big reasons: to bring together the off-campus administrative staff and departments that were previously scattered across multiple locations and to strengthen the university’s connection to the community. The university achieved both...

Children Save the World’s Books in Upcoming Opera Performance

May 8, 2018
UC Merced Arts Presents welcomes everyone to the annual Children's Opera. This year's production is entitled “The Last Book on Earth.” Three young friends, Luna, Izzy and Finn, are the only hope to save all the world's books from being forever shut by the dark force of...

Campus Conferring its Highest Number of Doctorates at Commencement

May 8, 2018
This weekend, 1,250 UC Merced undergraduate and graduate students, including 52 doctoral candidates — the most in the campus’s 12-year history — are expected to cross the commencement stage and embark on the next chapter of their lives. “Commencement is the culmination of...

Women's Basketball Announces August Team Camp

May 7, 2018

Grad’s Ambition Continues to Motivate Her Success

May 4, 2018
The odds of Tomanik’e Banks graduating from college were slim — only slightly lower than the odds she’d go to college at all. But Banks had one thing going for her that many others don’t. Determination. When Banks crosses the commencement stage May 12, she’ll be...

QSB’s Portia Mira Places Third at GradSlam Finals

May 4, 2018
Portia Mira scored $1,000 for winning third place in the University of California’s 2018 Grad Slam competition , marking UC Merced’s first appearance as a top-three finalist during the systemwide contest. In three minutes, Mira -- a doctoral candidate in the quantitative systems...

Registration Open for Women's Basketball Summer Camps

May 3, 2018

Professor’s Fellowship Allows Renewed Focus on Sociology of Race in South Africa

May 3, 2018
Professor Whitney Pirtle recently became the first researcher to win the prestigious Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship while employed at UC Merced — a grant that will help her finish writing a book and move her closer to gaining tenure. “It’s a really big honor,”...

Prestigious University Press Signs Professor as Book Series Editor

May 3, 2018
Interdisciplinary Humanities Professor Arturo Arias was recently selected to edit a series of indigenous-studies books for the State University of New York (SUNY) Press. That makes him the first UC Merced professor to be named editor of a book series for a major university press. He said it is...

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