UC Merced News

The Merced County headquarters of West Coast Turf, a grass company, is surrounded by more than 500 acres of emerald green lawn just off Highway 140 south of Livingston.

While Californians worry about the three-year drought dragging on another season, researchers say climate change soon could create much longer dry spells - lasting decades or even centuries.

IBM's claim that it has designed the first brain simulation to exceed the scale of a cat's cortex is being dismissed as "a hoax and a PR stunt" by a rival scientist.

It took the better part of a year for Adrian Garcia and Rogelio Grijalva to make their dream a reality.

The Sport Shooting Club at US Merced conducted a Veteran's Shoot at the River Oaks Range 11584 N. Shaffer Road on Veteran's Day from 9:00 a.m. to noon.

Dear Business Owners, You are invited to come to a Synergy Summit Business Lunch Friday, Nov.

This is the story of Uday Bali, and it's a perfect example of how UC Merced is making a difference for the local community.

There's a budget for new buildings at UC Merced -- but no money just yet. A construction budget for the 2010-2011 fiscal year was approved Tuesday by the University of California Regent's Committee on Grounds and Buildings.

Earlier this fall, the University of California, Merced marked a major milestone as we welcomed our fifth - and by far our largest - incoming class of students.

MERCED - The dormant Castle Air Force Base in Atwater may not look like the site of the next alternative-energy breakthrough.

Critics have pounced on efforts by Jim Costa and Dennis Cardoza, a pair of Congressional Democrats from the Central Valley, to scare up funding for a medical school at UC Merced.

More than 200 protesters left UC Santa Cruz's Science and Engineering Library Saturday evening after staging a 24-hour protest against budget cuts and the reduced hours of operation for the library.

When I was elected as a member of Congress in 2003, I had a list of issues for which I intended to fight.

At Fresno State's new Henry Madden Library, the whirr of a blender and hum of conversation are the sounds of evolution.

Helping California meet its renewable energy goal by 2020, the University of California Merced campus has unveiled the university's 1-megawatt solar power system.

A health care reform bill could mean millions of dollars for the University of California at Merced's proposed medical school, but the university isn't promised a dime.

WASHINGTON A health-care reform bill could mean millions of dollars for the University of California at Merced's proposed medical school.

Health care reform has become a lottery windfall for members of Congress willing to sell their vote in exchange for dollars.

Two Central Valley Blue Dogs, Jim Costa and Dennis Cardoza, may bring home some serious bacon.

Centuries ago in the Eastern hemisphere, Mughal and Persian art saw its greatest popularity from the 800s through the 1700s.