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Women’s Soccer Star, Campus Leader Wraps Four Fulfilling Years

April 9, 2018

When prospective student-athletes visit UC Merced, soccer standout Abbie-Leigh Meneses is among the first people they meet. Not long ago, Meneses was a recruit herself, touring the University of California’s 10th and newest campus. She fell in love with UC Merced and its central location within...

Feeling a Little Puckish? Get Thee to Yosemite for ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’

April 5, 2018

Desperate lovers, a fairy king and queen, a woman with a donkey’s head and a scamp with Cupid’s arrow in flower form are taking over Yosemite National Park on Earth Day weekend. Highlighting UC Merced’s special partnership with Yosemite, Shakespeare in Yosemite enters its second year with “A...

Finalists to Vie for GradSLAM Championship April 12

April 5, 2018

Ten graduate students advanced to the final round of UC Merced’s annual GradSLAM! competition and will vie for a chance to represent the campus and compete with graduate students from across the University of California system. The campus community and the general public are welcome to attend...

Study: Drug-Resistant Cancer Cleverer Than Imagined

April 4, 2018

Precision medicine offers hope after a life-changing cancer diagnosis. But some cancers that initially respond to targeted chemotherapy become treatment-resistant — and the tumor itself is the culprit. Now, new research from UC Merced and UC Irvine is helping explain how therapy-resistant cancers...

Helmrich Awarded Delta Science Fellowship

March 29, 2018

Hart Elected Lifetime Fellow of Ecological Society

March 28, 2018

Lecturer Honored for New Book on Pedagogy

March 27, 2018

Lecturer Iris D. Ruiz, Ph.D., won Honorable Mention in the 2018 Outstanding Book Awards given by the Conference on College Composition and Communication’s (CCCC). Ruiz’s award is in the Monograph category for her book “Reclaiming Composition for Chicano/as and Other Ethnic Minorities: A Critical...

Study: Kitchen and Culture Clash When Promoting Healthy Eating to Latinos

March 22, 2018

Latinos suffer from some of the highest obesity rates in the nation. Health officials have tried to intervene with messaging that encourages healthy eating and healthy behavior, but these campaigns have met with little success. Now a new study from UC Merced public health Professor Susana Ramirez...

Grad Programs Make U.S. News Rankings Debut

March 20, 2018

For the first time, UC Merced’s doctoral programs in the sciences have been ranked among the best in the nation, according to U.S. News & World Report’s 2019 edition of Best Graduate Schools. The School of Engineering celebrated its third appearance in the rankings, and this year marks UC...

Campus Voices: Positioning Students as Architects of Social Change

March 19, 2018

Working in education over the years, I have learned to never let inhospitable and toxic circumstances destroy one’s soul, but to use education as a way to empower, transform, radically heal and cultivate seeds of hope. Growing up in Carson, I was constantly reminded of the five faces of oppression...