From Wild Mushrooms to Punchlines, Bobcats Learn in Out-of-the-Box Ways
Editor's note: This story is republished from the Spring/Summer 2026 issue of UC Merced Magazine.
Walk across UC Merced’s campus on any weekday, and you might hear laughter spilling from a classroom, feel the thrum of a wind tunnel or spot students crouched in a field searching for mushrooms.
Not every college course follows a familiar script, and at UC Merced, some of the most talked-about classes are the ones that don’t.
