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Good Sports: UC Merced basketball headed to national tournament for 1st time

March 14, 2025

UC Merced Doubles Down on Huntington Distinguished Fellowships

March 12, 2025
The Huntington Library in San Marino is one of the world’s greatest sources for independent research in the humanities, with documents and artifacts that span 11 centuries. Scholars from more than 30 nations visit its reading rooms or tap into its digital services. Each year, the...

UC Merced Doubles Down on Huntington Distinguished Fellowships

March 12, 2025
The Huntington Library in San Marino is one of the world’s greatest sources for independent research in the humanities, with documents and artifacts that span 11 centuries. Scholars from more than 30 nations visit its reading rooms or tap into its digital services. Each year, the library awards 15...

Finalists Vie for Campus Grad Slam Champion Title During Research Week

March 10, 2025
Each spring, master’s and doctoral students across UC Merced’s 18 graduate groups are invited to contend in the campus’s Grad Slam Finals. They are given three minutes and one visual slide to present their research to a panel of non-specialist judges. This year’s competition will take place during...

Health of California dairy workers was compromised as bird flu spread, new study says

March 10, 2025

Latinos often struggle to keep their footing in the middle class. The fires made it even harder for these families

March 7, 2025

Estee Beck named to Free Speech and Civic Engagement Center Board

March 6, 2025
Professor Estee Beck, director of UC Merced’s Merritt Writing Program, has been named to the Academic Advisory Board of the University of California’s National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement . The center strives to ensure everyone with a stake in...

‘Like someone put a blanket over the ocean’: Kelp could be among fires’ casualties

March 3, 2025

Stargazing and Lecture Offer Unique Perspectives on Stars and Exoplanets

February 27, 2025
The night sky is filled with countless mysteries and worlds yet to be explored but that someday might be visited by spacecraft. In a free event titled “Celestial Tales: Stars, Exoplanets and the Myths That Connect Us,” on March 6, the campus community and the public will hear from Professor Yosuke...

Center Engages Campus, Community with Africa and its Diaspora

February 27, 2025
This story is part of a series for Black History Month. Read more stories highlighting Black excellence at UC Merced. The brutal deaths of African Americans George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and others at the hands of police officers five years ago catalyzed for Black communities to unite globally and...

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