An all-faculty rock band formed in a professor’s garage a decade ago has released the first album produced at UC Merced’s digitally advanced recording studio.
The album showcases the eight members of G Street Revolution. Their day jobs cross a spectrum of academics: engineering, sociology,...
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June 3, 2026
Jarrod L. Brown Jr. is the first UC Merced graduate student to be awarded the National Academy of Education/Spencer Dissertation fellowship, supporting his doctoral research in structural inequality in higher education.
The sociology Ph.D. candidate, who is one of 35 recipients selected from nearly...
May 12, 2026
Five UC Merced faculty members are among the first awardees of a UC-wide honor given for exemplary research in budding academic careers.
The Early Career Faculty Research Excellence Awards, launched last fall, support commitment to scholarship and creative activity across the 10-campus system. The...
April 13, 2026
A highly customizable degree that rewards curiosity, reaches out to a diverse set of learners and prepares scholars for people-centered careers has arrived at UC Merced.
Liberal studies, a bachelor’s program that taps into disciplines in the School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts, debuts in...
April 7, 2026
UC Merced saw broad gains in the U.S. News and World Report 2026 Best Graduate Schools rankings with graduate programs rising in national standing, reflecting the campus’s growing academic and research profile.
UC Merced’s School of Engineering broke into the top 100 in the rankings, securing No....
March 13, 2026
Dr. Andrea N. Polonijo, Assistant Professor of Sociology at UC Merced, has published a new peer-reviewed article examining long-term mental health and suicidality trends among East Asian adolescents in Canada, with a focus on disparities by sexual orientation.
The article, “Trends and...
February 12, 2026
Black History Month often honors familiar names, leaders whose courage and determination changed the course of a nation. But many others have made groundbreaking contributions that exposed injustice, advanced civil rights, reshaped American culture and revolutionized technology. Their achievements...
December 8, 2025
UC Merced Sociology Professor Tanya Golash-Boza published three articles recently - one in Spanish, one in French, and one in English. One article is co-authored with a UCM undergraduate student and one with a recent UCM graduate student.
The details of the publications are:
Golash-Boza...
December 8, 2025
UC Merced Professor Laura Hamilton and members of her Higher Education, Race, and the Economy (HERE) Lab recently published a policy report in collaboration with The Institute for College Access & Success and the Partnership for College Completion. The report considers the importance of...
December 5, 2025
Three Ph.D. students recently visited Madera Community College to share research findings and highlight opportunities available to transfer students at UC Merced.
Emily Rivera Mondragon, a second-year environmental systems Ph.D. student, joined sociology graduate students Justin Barnes and Eliana...
