UC Merced

The official account for the University of California, Merced

Go 'Cats! 🐾😸💙💛

[UC Merced @ucmerced]

UC Merced is ranked in the Top 25 Best Public Schools by @usnews and holds the No. 3 spot in social mobility for the second year in a row. 🔗 https://t.co/oLwDTVKnEG

[Hispanic Engineer & IT magazine @Hispaniceng]

@ucmerced’s Degree Completion Program secured a $550,000 College Futures Foundation grant to help students finish their degrees and advance their careers—creating outcomes like civil engineering grad Eduardo Savala Alvarez’s 3 job offers.

Read more at https://t.co/6W8FQxyuxx

[UCM Engineering @UCMEngineering]

From award-winning autonomous race cars to AI-powered emergency evacuation systems, @UCMerced Prof. Greer's (@Ross__Greer) lab is developing technology that makes transportation safer and more accessible for everyone.
🔗 https://t.co/L9BhvgB7wF
#UCMEngineering #AI #Innovation

[Graduate Division @ucmgraddiv]

👏 Shoutout to @ucmerced students Brianna Aguilar-Solis, Vanessa Sanchez and Nora Shamoon for earning the 2026-27 @UofCalifornia President’s Pre-Professoriate Fellowship. Read more: https://t.co/981GraKdfx

[UC Merced @ucmerced]

Boomer, Bobbie and Rufus are settling into their newly renovated habitat as the Applegate Zoo reopens after months of improvements🐾 UC Merced helped fund the new bobcat exhibit and announced an additional $20,000 gift toward the zoo's next chapter! 🔗 https://t.co/gwaSqrKi0Z

[UC Merced @ucmerced]

For the 4th consecutive year, Discovery's Shark Week turned to UC Merced Professor Sora Kim to help tell the story of sharks. 🦈 This year, alongside actor and comedian Ken Jeong and singer and rapper Rei Ami in the premiere episode, K-Pop Shark Heroes. 🔗 https://t.co/fDYSL1CSmL

[UC Merced @ucmerced]

@ChancellorMunoz was joined by three generations of Bobcat student leaders at this week's UC Board of Regents meeting.

🔹'26-'27 ASUCM President Mistura Bankole
🔹'25-'26 ASUCM President Manar Ahmed
🔹'24-'25 ASUCM President and UC Student Regent Miguel Craven

[UC Merced @ucmerced]

Proud to be ranked among the nation's best!🙌
UC Merced is once again featured in @Money 2026 Best Colleges in America report, which recognizes more than 700 institutions based on student outcomes, affordability, instructor access and economic mobility. 🔗 https://t.co/oh8WA0RrMd

[UC Merced @ucmerced]

Happy Fourth of July from UC Merced! 🇺🇸

This year, we celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and the people, ideas, and communities that continue to move our nation forward.

Our campus will be closed Friday, July 3, in observance of the holiday.

[UC Merced @ucmerced]

What started as a jam session in a professor's garage became G Street Revolution, an all-faculty band made up of UC Merced professors and lecturers from across disciplines🎶🎸 Ten years later, the band has released its debut album called "Dumpster Fire." 🔗https://t.co/yxWukBd7sR

[University of California @UofCalifornia]

Heat waves supercharge wildfire season, according to new research from @UCMerced showing that while heat waves account for just 12–15% of warm-season days, they’re linked to 42% of the area burned by wildfires in the western U.S. https://t.co/B5Ji0JxaC5

[UC Merced Alumni @UCMercedAlumni]

The Bay Area is home to five professional women’s sports teams and our Bobcats had a front-row seat to history.

Thank you to incoming Foundation Trustee and proud @ucmerced alumna Temnee Wright '08 for hosting our Bobcats at the Golden State Valkyries game. 💙💛🏀

[UC Merced @ucmerced]

At UC Merced, students can analyze airflow in a wind tunnel, perform standup comedy for an audience or study mushrooms at Yosemite National Park. These unexpected courses spark creativity, confidence and discovery in unforgettable ways 💫
Full story 🔗 https://t.co/X3VD6WTUXS

[UC Merced @ucmerced]

From classrooms and campus research labs to some of the nation's most impactful scientific institutions🔬🚀 🧬 Bobcats are turning opportunity into careers at the nation's leading national laboratories, including Lawrence Livermore and Sandia. Read more 🔗 https://t.co/mgEVnJ4o6k

[UC Merced @ucmerced]

UC Merced and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have signed a Strategic Partnership Agreement to advance research, support national and energy security, strengthen CA innovation, and help prepare the next generation of scientists and engineers.

🔗 https://t.co/yBIjTd8TzV

[UC Merced @ucmerced]

A $3 million grant is helping UC Merced and partners across the San Joaquin Valley create more opportunities for students to succeed after high school 🎓This initiative will help thousands build a clearer path to college, a career and beyond. 🔗https://t.co/8uy9MFQMTA

[UC Merced @ucmerced]

The future of autonomous driving is being built at UC Merced. ⚡🚗

Supported by NVIDIA, researchers are working to bridge the gap between AI breakthroughs in the lab and the split-second decisions vehicles need to make on real roads.

Read more 🔗 https://t.co/U9Hl3Xb4FM

[UC Merced @ucmerced]

A train whistle. A jazz club. The hum of farm equipment.🎧 Those sounds and more come to life in "Soundscapes of Merced," a new exhibit created by UC Merced Professor Patricia Vergara. It preserves the stories and sounds that have connected generations.
🔗 https://t.co/DZHIAb2SNW

[UC Merced @ucmerced]

For 25 years, CITRIS and the Banatao Institute have transformed bold ideas into solutions that make a difference, drive innovation, inspire discovery and create lasting impact.✨ Read more 🔗 https://t.co/qRV79xqxRD

[UC Merced @ucmerced]

Here’s to the people behind the scenes and at the center of it all, our UC Merced staff! 💛💙

Thank you for the countless ways you support the Bobcat community every single day. We hope Staff Appreciation Week showed just how valued you are!

[UC Merced @ucmerced]

Flexible pathways. Meaningful degrees. Greater economic mobility. 🎓
A new $550,000 grant from College Futures Foundation will help UC Merced expand opportunities for adult learners to return to school and complete a UC degree.
Read more🔗https://t.co/zskgAlaDyI