UC Merced Chancellor Dorothy Leland, ... “We’re on the map now.” UC President Janet Napolitano said Leland’s announcement Monday was “bittersweet news. ...

First lady Michelle Obama's commencement speech at UC Merced on Saturday is the biggest thing to happen in this sleepy Central Valley city since, well, ever. "This is something that puts the UC ...

The University of California opened its doors in 1869 with just 10 faculty members and 40 students. Today, the UC system has more than 295,000 students and 265,000 faculty and staff, with 2.0 million ...

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 ...

The newest of UC’s nine undergraduate campuses, Merced is located in a rural area about 60 miles north of Fresno, and about an hour and a half’s drive north of Dinuba. The UC Merced campus is not ...

UC Merced’s long-awaited 2020 Project is complete after a $1.3 billion investment over four years that doubled the size of the campus and cleared the way for thousands of more students to enroll ...