UC Merced

By Patty Guerra UC Merced Communications UC Merced once again broke a record for the number of first-year applications the university received, continuing to show impressive growth even as the national trend shows a decline in the number of students enrolling in higher education. More than 26,000 prospective first-year, or…

By PATTY GUERRA The setting for the celebration marking 20 years since the groundbreaking for UC Merced was markedly different in many ways from the…

Later this year, UC Merced will welcome a new sculpture to campus: “Big Rufus” by Dan Medina. Depicting UC Merced's mascot, Medina's bronze bobcat stands…

Longtime UC Merced supporters Dr. Vikram and Priya Lakireddy were recently honored as part of an intimate event to mark the official dedication of the campus ballroom bearing their names. The Dr. Vikram and Priya Lakireddy Grand Ballroom, which anchors the UC Merced Conference Center, was named in recognition of the donors' exceptional…

To help the people of Planada who have been so dramatically affected by the recent floods, the UC Merced Police Department is conducting a drive…

UC Merced's annual month-long fundraising campaign, Give to UC Merced, wrapped up on Dec. 31, 2022, as the most successful in the initiative's history. The…

By PATTY GUERRA, UC Merced News Innovate to Grow is a twice-yearly celebration of student ingenuity hosted by the School of Engineering (SoE). In a way, it's a science fair for college students to help solve problems that businesses and nonprofit organizations face, and potentially gain partnerships to see their projects utilized in…

By PATTY GUERRA, UC Merced News Land has been tilled at UC Merced’s smart farm, the first physical step in  developing the state-of-the-art project.…

The Central Valley Stories class project at UC Merced hosted the launch of its new zine at the Kreepy Kawaii Gallery space in downtown Merced last…

UCs Merced and Santa Cruz became the newest campuses in the system to be named an agricultural experiment stations (AES), UC President Michael Drake announced at today’s Regents’ meeting. They are the first campuses in more than 50 years to earn the designation. “With the AES designation, Santa Cruz and Merced have the potential…