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Incoming Bobcats ‘Grew Up’ with UC Merced

July 31, 2025
This is part of a series of profiles of new UC Merced Bobcats enrolled for the fall 2025 semester. One could say UC Merced has always been part of incoming Bobcats Ella and Satchel Ortez’s lives. The twins’ father worked for the 10th UC campus when it opened, and they lived with the campus as their...

UC Merced Recognized Nationally for Excellence, Affordability and Student Success

July 30, 2025
UC Merced remains one of the top universities in the nation according to Money’s 2025 “Best Colleges in America” report. The university earned 4.5 stars out of 5 in Money’s latest poll, which scores over 700 schools. The ratings are based on several factors, including graduation rates, cost of...

New Alumni-Funded Endowment to Champion LGBTQ+ Initiatives at UC Merced

July 29, 2025
A group of dedicated UC Merced alumni have come together to launch an endowed fund focused on supporting LGBTQ+ student initiatives, programs and priorities. Spearheaded by University of California Regent Emeritus Keith Ellis ’12, the LGBTQ+ Lambda Student Engagement Endowment was created to foster...

Black Engineering Society Earns Regional Chapter of the Year

July 29, 2025
The National Society of Black Engineers, established at UC Merced in 2007, is one of the campus’s oldest and most active student organizations. It provides support, guidance and advocacy for its members through their college journeys and beyond. All that hard work has been recognized by the...

Community Health Worker Program Celebrates First Graduates

July 28, 2025
The region has nearly 170 newly certified community health workers after the first cohort completed a specialized training program at UC Merced. Graduates of the training, offered through the university’s Professional and Continuing Education (PACE) division, were celebrated at a ceremony July 15...

UC Merced’s Berhe Joins Scientists in Warning of Global Land Mine Crisis

July 24, 2025
More than 100 million land mines remain buried around the world, posing a threat in approximately 70 countries and territories, and killing or injuring about 5,000 people, most of them civilians, every year.  As the world’s geopolitical landscape shifts, nine scientists studying different aspects...

Humanities Grad Student Advocates for Student Parents

July 24, 2025
When Nicolette Lecy began her graduate studies at UC Merced, life was anything but typical. It was August 2020, in the heart of the COVID-19 pandemic. Lecy’s classes were held remotely, and she had limited access to campus. Another challenge that could have hindered Lecy’s academic goals — she...

LiWang’s Research into Biological Clocks Earns Protein Society Honors

July 21, 2025
Professor Andy LiWang knows what makes us tick, at least at a cellular level. His research into the mechanisms of the oldest biological clock known to humankind has led him to understand how proteins — and hence cells — can tell time. It has also led the UC Merced biochemist to become this year's...

Professor Dives with Crocs, Displays Megalodon Expertise During Shark Week

July 17, 2025
Shark Week starts Sunday and Professor Sora Kim will be featured again this year in a special airing at 9 p.m. Monday, titled “Jaws vs. Mega Croc,” and the filming allowed her to swim with a Nile crocodile. “I flew to Florida and learned about crocodiles – their evolution, strength, physiology and...

UC Investment Academy Propels Students to Financial Career Success

July 14, 2025
This summer, 2024 UC Merced graduate Tatiana Howell is set to begin working as a wealth management analyst with Goldman Sachs. She got the job through tenacity, a strong work ethic and participation in an innovative program that prepared her and other students to work in the financial sector. The...

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