The university says the goal is to provide students and faculty with resources that can all be easily found in one place.

Big changes are underway on the UC Merced campus. Construction crews are using bulldozers and other heavy equipment to build more dorm rooms.

The campus in Merced, which opened in 2005, is the newest expansion for the UC system, and many hope it will revitalize the local economy. In the short term, as the campus expands, there will be ...

Aerial photos of the UC Merced campus a few days before school opens. Meanwhile, on the ground, families help freshmen move into the dorms San Francisco Chronicle Photo by Kim Komenich 9/3/05.

UC Merced has been in the pipeline since 1988, when the UC regents first proposed adding a 10th campus to the system. Merced was chosen as the site in 1995 after a screening process that included more ...

The motives of the Merced campus advocates, both public and private, had only tangential connections to educational needs, and two decades later that’s still true. UC Merced is the system’s ...

Freshman Nicky Cruz was excited to be part of the first class at UC Merced when it opened last August. Now she wants out. She isn't alone. Her roommate, Leily Kiani, also hopes to transfer to ...

A University of California campus near Merced moved a key step closer to reality Wednesday as the university’s regents endorsed environmental and development plans aimed at a groundbreaking as ...

Reporting from Merced, Calif. — A male UC Merced student stabbed four people with a large hunting knife on the campus Wednesday morning before he was shot and killed by university police ...

Students walk along Scholars Lane at the University of California Merced campus on Nov. 4, 2022. (Photo by Larry Valenzuela/CalMatters and CatchLight Local) The Legislature’s budget analyst ...