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UC Merced Drone Team Soars to New Heights in Global Competition
July 17, 2023
After seven months of working for hours each weekend to design, build and fly a drone, it all came down to a nervous moment for UC Merced students taking part in a worldwide competition. Their drone had to be suspended between two poles... Read More
Shark Week Highlights Researcher’s Megalodon Expertise
July 17, 2023
UC Merced 's resident expert on the nightmarishly massive megalodon will play a role in Discovery Channel’s Shark Week, a celebration of the toothy creatures at the top of the oceanic food chain. Professor Sora Kim will be featured in a... Read More
Soccer Standout Heads to UC Merced this Fall
July 12, 2023
Since age 5, Preston Nguyen has been kicking around a soccer ball. “I have been consumed by the sport ever since,” the Turlock native said. “I can play any role in the midfield, but I usually play as a defensive midfielder.” The incoming... Read More
Environmental Research, Working Toward Saving the Planet Among New Bobcat’s Plans
July 12, 2023
Incoming Bobcat Benji Thier already knows what he wants to do with his college degree: Save the planet. “I am planning to study Environmental Systems Science because I did some environmental work in high school and I think it is a very... Read More
UC Merced, Yosemite Community College District Launch Transfer Program
July 11, 2023
UC Merced and the Yosemite Community College District (YCCD) have partnered to further extend access for transfer students in the Central Valley. By signing the Merced Promise Pathway Program memorandum of understanding, the two... Read More
New Bobcat Brings Wealth of Experience to College Career
July 10, 2023
Incoming first-year student Hayden Elliott will hit the UC Merced campus this fall with quite a bit of college already under his belt. A 2023 graduate of Turlock High School, Elliott has earned associate's degrees from attending both... Read More
Sociology Student Receives Campus’s First NSF-funded Dissertation Award
July 10, 2023
UC Merced doctoral student Luis Rubén González Marquez was awarded the American Sociological Association Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (ASA DDRIG), funded by the National Science Foundation, for his research on renewable... Read More
SoCal Student Says UC Merced Will Be a ‘Breath of Fresh Air’
July 6, 2023
UC Merced is highlighting incoming students for fall 2023 — a dynamic, diverse and accomplished cohort of new Bobcats. It's the change of pace that Kayla Lopez has been craving. In August, she will leave the busy streets of Southern... Read More
Collaboration Across Continents: Agreement Brings Merced, Kyoto Campuses Closer
July 5, 2023
Merced, California, and Kyoto, Japan, are nearly 5,500 miles apart, but their research universities' shared goals to improve society is bringing them together. A new agreement between institutions of higher education in both cities will... Read More
Delgadillo Reflects on 30 Years of Serving Students
June 29, 2023
When Associate Director for Educational Equity and Access for the Calvin E. Bright Success Center Alejandro Delgadillo announced his plans for retirement earlier this year in a social media post, there was an outpouring of felicitations... Read More
Incoming Fresno Student Prepares to Launch Her Health Career at UC Merced
June 28, 2023
UC Merced is highlighting incoming students for fall 2023 — a dynamic, diverse and accomplished cohort of new Bobcats. Delia Rodriguez poured her heart into college prep — applying to almost 20 universities. When it came time to make her... Read More
Orosi Friends Seek Community, Diversity and the Written Word at UC Merced
June 27, 2023
UC Merced is highlighting incoming students for fall 2023 — a dynamic, diverse and accomplished cohort of new Bobcats. With a population of about 8,700 people, the Tulare County town of Orosi is known as a tight-knit community. It's no... Read More
Research Proves Megalodon was Warm-blooded, both an Advantage and an Extinction Factor
June 26, 2023
Megalodon was the biggest shark in the world — 50 feet long or more — and one of the largest fish ever to exist. It roamed most of the world’s oceans from 23 million to 3.6 million years ago. A new study by paleoecology Professor Sora Kim... Read More
Sharim’s New Photo Essay Reveals Night in Merced County
June 23, 2023
Global Arts Studies Professor Yehuda Sharim has published a new photo essay, “A Map of Light,” on the University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI)’s digital platform Foundry. This is the second piece Sharim has... Read More
Learning Lab Offers Education for Children and Future Teachers
June 22, 2023
Every Tuesday and Thursday during the school year, elementary, middle and high school students from around the region travel to a special lab at UC Merced designed just for them. It’s the CalTeach Learning Lab, and in just one year more... Read More
Transformative Gift to Gateway Scholarship Boosts UC Merced Undergraduate Support
June 21, 2023
The Gateway Scholarship Program, UC Merced's longstanding student-support initiative focused on empowering young people from the San Joaquin Valley, has received a significant infusion of funding, ensuring the scholarship's ability to help... Read More
Water Research Goes Deep with Rafting Trip to Utah
June 15, 2023
The USDA-funded Secure Water Future (SWF) team at UC Merced believes that to fully understand water, you must do more than just study this vital resource. You must immerse yourself in it - sometimes, literally. A recent trip to Utah that... Read More
UC Merced Receives $1 Million Grant to Support Underrepresented STEM Students
June 14, 2023
The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation has established a new scholarship endowment to ensure that many of UC Merced's underrepresented students, particularly those from diverse socio-economic backgrounds, have access to much-needed financial... Read More
Campus Adds New Areas of Studies for Students to Choose From
June 12, 2023
New students or those who have not yet chosen their majors will have an array of options before them. Five new majors and several new emphases, ranging across all three schools, are all coming online in 2024 and are recruiting students now... Read More
Turner Honored as 2023 Lindau Fellow
June 8, 2023
Christi Turner will represent UC Merced and join Nobel laureates from around the world at the 2023 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, June 25-30 in Germany. Turner, a Quantitative and Systems Biology Ph.D. student from Orange County, was... Read More
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