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July 29, 2011
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July 26, 2011
Merced native John Sykes will be UC Merced's first men's basketball coach;
Allen McCreary, originally from Atwater, comes home to lead women's volleyball team. MERCED — The University of...
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July 25, 2011
Research by UC Merced Professor Anthony Westerling shows large fires could become annual events by 2050, transforming the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem in fundamental ways. An increase in wildfires due to climate...
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July 22, 2011
Most of us know we should eat right and exercise, but few do. With busy job schedules, family demands and hectic social calendars, working out often seems impossible to work in. But finding time for fitness reaps...
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July 19, 2011
New program to address the pressing health concerns of the Valley. The University of California, Merced, and UC Davis School of Medicine announced today the first cohort of students who are expected to enroll this...
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July 15, 2011
The University of California Board of Regents today (July 14) approved a plan to close a $1 billion budget shortfall through a combination of higher student tuition, cost-cutting measures and operational efficiencies....
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July 13, 2011
Mix up a few buckets of goo, and what do you have?
A messy and fun science lesson for local schoolchildren — courtesy of UC Merced students who help the community through an innovative engineering service...
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July 12, 2011
Men's basketball team travels to face two-time WCC champion Santa Clara on Nov. 11;
Women's volleyball to host first UC Merced home contest in any sport on Sept. 22
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July 7, 2011
UC Merced researcher finds tradable permit system could more effectively trigger use of clean technologies, while volatility of permit pricing could lead to earlier action by energy providers. A cap-and-trade...
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June 30, 2011
More than 1,800 new students plan to enroll, a 6 percent increase from last year
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June 30, 2011
UC Merced students took to the floor of the California Senate last week, sitting in the seats of the legislators they have portrayed all summer as a part of their Government in Action course.
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June 28, 2011
Engineers for a Sustainable World will be headquartered on campus beginning July 1. The University of California, Merced, will become the new headquarters of Engineers for a Sustainable World effective July 1, the...
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June 27, 2011
Interdisciplinary economics study reveals major rail transit system in Taiwan reduced air pollution in a meaningful way when it began operating. The opening of a major urban rail system in Taiwan caused a...
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June 24, 2011
Just after graduating college in 1995, Nigel Hatton showed up for the first day of his journalism internship with the Richmond Times-Dispatch in Virginia. That afternoon, he was assigned to go with a couple more...
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June 17, 2011
Ann Hinesley-Perez's original academic plans didn't involve law school — or even UC Merced.
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June 13, 2011
UC Merced professor coauthors a study in the American Journal of Public Health that highlights cessation challenges posed by social smokers compared to regular smokers. Self-identified social smokers are less...
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June 9, 2011
UC Merced aims to further connect the campus and community with bold graphics adorning city light poles
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June 9, 2011
It's not just faculty and students in the School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Artswho are conducting groundbreaking research this summer. Those in Engineering and Natural Sciences will be busy as well.
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June 3, 2011
Juan C. Meza, named one of Hispanic Business magazine's 'Top 100 Influentials of 2009,'
is head of high-performance computing research at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
MERCED — The University of California,...
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June 2, 2011
Studying ancient remains, exploring caves, publishing books, leading workshops and presenting papers are just a handful of the things that will keep faculty busy this summer in the School of Social Sciences,...
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May 26, 2011
UC Merced may still be a young campus, but that doesn't prevent its students from striving for audacious goals. One enterprising group of students aspires to change the face of how diabetes is managed in the...
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May 19, 2011
A team of UC Merced undergraduates are studying the relationships developing between U.S. cities and states and those in foreign countries for the U.S. Department of State.
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May 18, 2011
Dorothy Leland has been appointed to serve as UC Merced's third chancellor..
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May 18, 2011
With a proven record of building universities, UC Merced Chancellor-Designate Dorothy Lelandis prepared to lead the campus through its next phase of development by growing its academic and research profile.
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May 14, 2011
University awarded 1,000th degree during ceremony; Kang urges graduates to act as global citizens and stewards in his final commencement address as chancellor
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May 13, 2011
For the second year, Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government has selected six University of California, Merced undergraduate students to attend the Latino Leadership Initiative (LLI) Program.
This...
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May 11, 2011
Before he ever set foot in a classroom, graduating senior Orisa Santiago Morrice learned at the feet of a great teacher. His grandmother cared for him during his preschool years in Santa Cruz.
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May 10, 2011
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May 6, 2011
World history major Dulcemaria Anaya will represent the Class of 2011 at commencement on May 14.Dulcemaria Anaya once vowed to represent her UC Merced class as the student speaker at commencement.
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May 4, 2011
Grant will allow Joyce to travel to El Salvador to study insects beneficial to agricultural crops. Andrea Joyce, an assistant research scientist with the Sierra Nevada Research Institute (SNRI) at the University...
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April 28, 2011
Gift will provide scholarships and fellowships for 50 students over two years in UC Merced's Sierra Nevada Research Institute and Solar Power Forecasting Initiative. Dozens of students at the University of...
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April 28, 2011
UC Merced’s National Parks Institute Executive Leadership Seminar provides park leaders from the United States and nine other countries the opportunity to learn from one another and from world-renowned experts on...
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April 22, 2011
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April 19, 2011
Men's basketball, women's volleyball and men's and women's cross country teams will begin competing at the varsity intercollegiate level in the 2011-12 academic year
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April 18, 2011
Gift will help ease financial burden for UC Merced students
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April 15, 2011
Andrea Mercado has a knack for finding opportunity. She left her hometown of Lake Arrowhead in Southern California for college in Seattle, but a year later, her horizons opened up in a different direction.
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April 12, 2011
Sierra Nevada Research Institute symposium joins Student Research Poster Competition and Vital and Alice Pellissier Distinguished Speaker Series as highlight events. Research Week, the annual celebration of...
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April 8, 2011
Now in its second year, UC Merced's student-run Earth Week celebration is growing and evolving.
Organized by junior Diana Franklin — the Associated Students of UC Merced's Commissioner of Sustainability — the five-day...
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April 7, 2011
Medina is first UC Merced professor to receive the fellowship, whose recipients have included many Nobel and Pulitzer prize-winning scholars, artists and scientists in its 87-year history. Mónica Medina, a biology...
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April 3, 2011
If there was any question whether UC Merced was ready to take its sports teams to a higher competitive level, the women's volleyball club team has proved it this year.
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March 31, 2011
Cruz Reynoso, who has spent his life fighting for immigrants' rights, will be the 2011 recipient of UC Merced's Alice and Clifford Spendlove Prize in Social Justice, Diplomacy and Tolerance
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March 25, 2011
UC Merced's physicsgroup is defying the odds.
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March 18, 2011
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March 11, 2011
I am deeply shocked and saddened by the news of the tragic 8.9-magnitude earthquake and ensuing tsunami that struck Japan today. This major catastrophe has caused heavy damage, apparently mostly in the northeastern...
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March 11, 2011
Unlike many other schools, UC Merced allows freshman students to enter with a major of "engineering - undeclared." For Matt Nelson, now looking back on his freshman year more than five years down the line,...
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March 9, 2011
UC Merced to lead roundtable on crucial issues facing parks and protected areas. From California's Sierra foothills to Sweden's Tyresta forest, the problems facing the world's national parks and...
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March 4, 2011
UC Merced Professor Rose Scott studies how young children begin to understand the social world and all its complexities.
It happens sooner than most would think.
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March 3, 2011
UC Merced professor's system uses advanced technology to better understand water cycles and predict runoff, which could have major impact on water allocations throughout the state. More than half of the water...
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March 1, 2011
More than 200 university alumni and friends converged in Sacramento today (March 1) for UC Day, an effort to advocate for a long-term funding solution to maintain the quality of the University of California.
UC faces...
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February 25, 2011
Junior Aki Chambers has been there for every stage of men's basketball at UC Merced. He played intramural basketball as a freshman, then started the men's club team with fellow student Daniel Castillo.
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February 25, 2011
During a typical day at the Mercy Medical Center Emergency Department (ED), nurses, doctors and support staff swiftly move through the halls of the 27-room facility. Patients register and are assessed and treated for...
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February 23, 2011
UC Merced's Stem Cell Instrumentation Foundry will support the campus' cutting-edge research into understanding stem cells, which are vital for regenerative medicine.. The University of California,...
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February 23, 2011
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February 17, 2011
It was 2003, a full two years before the UC Merced campus began its first academic year, when the seeds were first planted for what would become the Frontiers of Science and Technology lecture series.
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February 11, 2011
Political science professors at UC Merced, on average publish papers in leading journals and books with top university presses at the fastest rate in the system.
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February 8, 2011
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February 4, 2011
UC Merced physicist Sayantani Ghosh has been given a CAREER Award to further her research into the dynamics of 'exotic' magnets
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February 4, 2011
UC Merced employees have established themselves here in every way during the last several years, including giving their time and expertise to community organizations. Several employees serve prominently in some of...
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February 3, 2011
$250,000 donation to the university will help make higher education a reality
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February 3, 2011
Whether it's through art, film, literature, education, civil rights, food, or music, events planned for the month of February are a way to commemorate Black History Month and celebrate the achievements and...
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