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The university says the goal is to provide students and faculty with resources that can all be easily found in one place.
Merced is experiencing a revitalization and boom, mostly fueled by a growing UC campus, but the new prosperity isn't for everyone. Officials are hoping that poor families will benefit, but right now ...
Big changes are underway on the UC Merced campus. Construction crews are using bulldozers and other heavy equipment to build more dorm rooms.
UC Merced opens next Tuesday for its first school year, ushering in a new era for education in the San Joaquin Valley. And from the bricks and mortar to the brainpower behind UC Merced, the entire UC ...
When UC Merced opened last year, it became the first UC campus to be built from the ground up since UC Santa Cruz opened in 1965. Long-range projections put its enrollment at 25,000 students.
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 ...
Meanwhile Merced offered free land for the campus and the adjacent university community and conducted a $1 million water adequacy study. The community jumped in with two feet.
UC Merced’s 2020 project has been completed. The campus expansion, which cost a billion dollars, allows the California university to add more students with space for housing, classrooms ...
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 ...
Merced High School football coach Rob Scheidt speaks during the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the school’s new on-campus Cathie Hostetler Stadium on Friday, Aug. 12, 2022.