= Overview <br/> =
<span id="docs-internal-guid-0b27bb3c-c3e1-8680-8bd8-f5c6cc63ea01">[[File:UCSeal.jpg|thumb|UCSeal.jpg]] <span style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); verticalfont-family: Arial; font-alignsize: baseline13px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The University of California, Merced is the United States’ first research university of the twenty-first century and is located in the heart of the Central Valley. Only recently founded in 2005, it’s still an adolescent campus with room for growth and new ideas as the campus grows in size. UC Merced has the innovative outlook necessary for to put into practice ambitious, forward-thinking ideas as its faculty and administration are constantly looking for new opportunities to explore to create a strong infrastructure for entrepreneurship. Innovation stems from our research labs, student run projects and organizations. As it realizes its potential, UC Merced will solve real world problems and produce innovative technologies to advance society. </span></span>
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