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MERCED, CA — State Senator Jim Costa and University of California alumni Hubert Hub Walsh and Susan Walsh will be honored for their contributions to education and progress in the San Joaquin Valley during the...
The University of California, Merced's recently named Kolligian Library also will honor one of Fresno's leading developers, according to an announcement by Chancellor Carol Tomlinson-Keasey.
The University of California, Merced today announced that SBC Pacific Bell has donated $100,000 to fund scholarships for high-achieving undergraduate and graduate engineering students at UC Merced Expected to open in...
MERCED, CA — The Thondapu family of Merced has committed an endowed chair and spearheaded a major fund-raising campaign to purchase books for the University of California, Merced.
A new technology venture between University of California campuses in Berkeley and Merced is gearing up this year to make the content of UC Berkeley lower-division computer science courses available online for the...
Merced, CA — The University of California, Merced and Merced County have extended for an additional week the public comment phase for the draft Environmental Impact Reports [EIRs] for the proposed University Long...
Dear Friends, I would like to share with you a letter I prepared to appear as a full-page ad in the Tuesday, September 11, 2001 edition of the Merced Sun-Star newspaper. Following is the text of that letter to the...
Jane Lawrence, UC Merced's new Vice Chancellor for Student AffairsMERCED, CA — Jane Fiori Lawrence, Ph.D., Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education at the University of Vermont, has been named as the founding...
Merced, CA — The University of California, Merced and Merced County will hold a public hearing on Thursday, September 13 to receive public comments concerning the draft Environmental Impact Reports [EIRs] for the...
Parents and children are invited to attend a special Build It! Festivalon Saturday, September 1 at the 2001 Eastern Sierra Tri-County Fair in Bishop. Sponsored by the University of California, Merced, the festival will...
The University of California, Merced, in collaboration with the Kern County Superintendent of Schools, proudly presents the ChemMystery exhibit at Bakersfields Buena Vista Museum of Natural History, 2018 Chester Avenue...
MERCED, CA — The development plans and EIRs released today by UC Merced and the County of Merced are very lengthy documents with hundreds of pages of text and accompanying maps. To simplify the public review...
The development of the new University of California, Merced campus and adjacent University Community will over time result in various environmental impacts that range from negligible to significant, according to the...
Assistance Available through Chancellors Summer Scholarship Program The registration deadline is fast approaching for San Joaquin Valley students wishing to enroll in the second session of University of California,...
Merced, CA — Beginning on August 1, 2001, Merced County's UC Development Office, UC Merced, and a collective of interested environmental and other groups will hold a series of public informational sessions on...
Campus will be built utilizing environmentally sustainable concepts.  San Francisco, CA — The newest University of California campus in Merced will be created with a unified vision for master planning and...
Engineering schools must hang out the welcome sign and aggressively pursue women and minorities to keep pace with the climbing demand for the multiple talents of skilled, highly educated engineers, according to Jeff R...
Merced, CA — A grant of $25,000 from Occidental Petroleum Corporation has enabled UC Merced to offer a special summer program for kids from Elk Hills Elementary School in Tupman, California.
FRESNO — One of the three initial buildings on the University of California, Merced campus will be named in honor of Leo Kolligian, a Fresno native and former University of California Regent, and his late wife,...
SACRAMENTO — Leading up to his focus on the Central Valley on Friday, Governor Gray Davis today announced a grant of $2 million from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation for habitat preservation on the site...
"Give me a C-H-A-M-B-E-R!" That's the cheer that will be heard at a pep rally style kick-off for the Chamber University on May 24, 5 p.m. at the Sportsmen of Stanislaus Club, 819 Sunset Avenue, Modesto.
Merced, CA — UC Merced Chancellor Carol Tomlinson-Keasey will be a featured speaker at the upcoming Thomas Jefferson Dinner in Mariposa on April 21, 2001, it was announced today. Tomlinson-Keasey will discuss...
Sacramento, CA — The California State Assembly Subcommittee on Education Finance yesterday [Wednesday, April 25, 2001] unanimously approved $162.4 million in funds for UC Merced in the proposed state budget for...
Gift Transforms Educational and Environmental Landscape of the San Joaquin Valley.  Merced, Ca. — Education, the environment, and student access to funding for higher education are bolstered as a result of an...
Trust Welcomes Transaction, Improves Ability to Support Scholarships.  Merced, CA — With funds received from an historic grant from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the University of California today...
MERCED, CA — The California State Senate Subcommittee on Education today reinstated $162.4 million in funds for UC Merced into the proposed state budget for the upcoming fiscal year, reversing an action taken two...
MERCED, CA — David B. Ashley, dean of the College of Engineering at The Ohio State University, has been named Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost of the University of California, Merced, it was announced today...
MERCED, CA — The University of California, Merced and the County of Merced today filed important documents in the state permitting process for the new UC Merced campus, it was announced by UC Merced Vice...
MERCED, CA — Veteran librarian R. Bruce Miller will merge the traditional and technological worlds of information resources as Founding University Librarian for the University of California, Merced. Miller's...
MERCED, CA— Janet E. Young of the Los Alamos National Laboratory has been selected as Assistant Chancellor and Chief of Staff for the University of California, Merced, it was announced today by Chancellor Carol...