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UC Merced Ranked One of the Top Young Universities in U.S.

June 26, 2019
UC Merced continues to build on its reputation as a world-class research university, debuting at No. 4 among U.S. universities in the 2019 Times Higher Education Young University Rankings released today. The list ranks the best 351 universities in the world that are 50 years old and younger. UC...

Sierra Seedlings Illustrate Effects of Climate Change on Next Generation of Forests

June 24, 2019
Climate change is bad news for forests, and a new study by UC Merced Professor Emily Moran demonstrates one aspect of that news. Higher summer temperatures hurt tree seedlings’ growth and survival. But whether that is entirely bad depends on the degree of change in the number of young...

NYPost: Dating Only for Free Food?

June 24, 2019

VPR: Extension Program Works to Improve Valley Child Care Options

June 21, 2019

Admissions Director Reflects on Decades of Promoting UC Merced

June 19, 2019
There’s something about a UC Merced student that’s just different. Different from your average “college kid” and different from other students in the University of California system. Bobcats are hard-working, focused and driven. Encarnación “Chon” Ruiz gets...

Women's Basketball Announces Development Camp

June 18, 2019

Science-Themed Living Learning Communities Enjoy Successful Debut

June 18, 2019
It started with a simple off-hand comment, one that would likely be met with a chuckle at any other institution. At UC Merced, it became a ripple that has changed the academic and social strata of an entire school. School of Natural Sciences Dean Betsy Dumont recalled the exchange that took...

Computational Chemist Improving Modeling for Complex Processes

June 17, 2019
Professor Hrant Hratchian, with the Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology in the School of Natural Sciences, has received a National Science Foundation CAREER award, the 24th recipient from UC Merced. CAREER awards are among the NSF’s most prestigious awards. They are given...

Research Field Study Brings New Sharing Apps to UC Merced Employees

June 14, 2019
The practice of sharing our possessions is something that most of us learned in childhood. Now, UC Merced Professor Anita Bhappu is expanding that idea to the workplace through a research study focused on collaborative consumption. Launched in April, the Sharing Tribes Field Study uses two new...

Field Station Planned for UC Merced's Vernal Pools and Grassland Reserve

June 13, 2019
At the northern tip of the UC Merced campus, an unremarkable aluminum gate leads into a field that extends, seemingly, into infinity. Perpendicular to the gate, the LeGrand Canal, drawn from Lake Yosemite, snakes around campus into the emerald pastures, through farm rows and almond orchards across...

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