UC Merced

A wave of blue and gold covered the recreation fields at UC Merced last weekend as more than 2,400 students walked the stage during the first in-person spring commencement in three years. The three-day ceremony weekend started by welcoming back 1,000 alumni from the classes of 2020 and 2021 — who were previously honored with a…

By ELAINA WILSON UC Merced students brought the community a refreshing yet eye-opening performance last weekend by presenting the play, “If All The Sky…

In January 2020, when her Facebook feed was full of beautiful tributes and memorials in honor of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of…

Four-time New York Times best-selling author, playwright and historian, Andrew Carroll, will visit Merced this May to interact with local military veterans and attend UC Merced’s performances of his play “If All The Sky Were Paper.” Carroll is known as the editor of Letters of a Nation, Behind the Lines, and War Letters, which…

By ANH DIEP UC Merced Professor Katrina Hoyer ’s lab is helping UC Merced serve the San Joaquin Valley community through its studies of…

As part of the 2021-22 Governor’s California Comeback Plan, UC Merced students will get the opportunity to serve their community while receiving financial…

Charles Nies, UC Merced’s vice chancellor of Student Affairs, told the Times, “UC Merced is part of a research project, and we’re looking at sewer waste, and we detected Omicron in Merced County in September. I haven’t heard of any case of an individual being identified as positive for Omicron, but it’s coming. “I’ve been hearing…

After a months long collaboration between dozens of UC Merced students, professional artists, National Park Service staff and Merced community…

Gov. Gavin Newsom visited UC Merced this week to personally tell UC officials, local elected leaders, community members, and of course students,…

Human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Nadia Murad will be honored with the Spendlove Prize during a UC Merced virtual ceremony on Nov. 3. Murad has been selected as the 14th recipient of the Alice and Clifford Spendlove Prize in Social Justice, Diplomacy and Tolerance. The 2018 Nobel Peace Prize recipient will be honored…