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May 22, 2013
Alumnus Justin Duckham serves as a senior Washington correspondent with Talk Radio News Service.As a founding student at UC Merced, Justin Duckham, ’09, trudged up the hill every day for classes. Now, he spends...
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May 20, 2013
Graduate student Stephanie Huette will start in the fall at the University of Memphis, where she will teach and continue her research in a tenure-track position.Graduate student Stephanie Huette knew she would face...
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May 15, 2013
More than 1,000 students will turn their tassels at commencement this weekend;
most graduates in the campus’s history
. This year isn’t the first time Maxine Umeh-Garcia has walked across the commencement stage...
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May 15, 2013
Computer science and engineering major Andy Luhrs has landed a job working for Microsoft beginning in July.On his first tour of UC Merced almost five years ago, Andy Luhrs decided the campus was the right place...
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May 15, 2013
The amendment is a vital component in UC Merced's plan to build enough facilities to serve 10,000 students within the next eight to 10 years.
The University of California, Merced, today received approval...
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May 13, 2013
Jose Pablo Vazquez-Medina, who earned his doctorate in Quantitative Systems Biology, landed a position as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pennsylvania. Born in central Mexico, the sea has long...
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May 8, 2013
Senior sociology major Stephanie Toledo will be pursuing a master’s degree in public health at UC Davis.Stephanie Toledo didn't want anything to get in the way of her academic success when she arrived at UC Merced.
The...
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May 7, 2013
Donors Fred and Mitzie Ruiz creating endowment to honor the legacy of matriarch Rose Ruiz that will help students for years to come. Longtime UC Merced supporters Frederick R. and Mitzie Ruiz have made a generous...
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May 6, 2013
Tyler Shaddix’s house looks like most of the other houses on his block in a subdivision not far from the UC Merced campus.
It’s what’s inside that’s different – the home office of a startup company offering a web...
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May 1, 2013
Professor David OjciusIn an effort to combat a debilitating disease commonly found in the region, UC Merced researchers are collaborating with area medical leaders to better understand valley fever.
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April 29, 2013
From the microbes in the guts of living things to the idea of life elsewhere in the universe, Professor Marilyn Fogel is pondering some of life’s deepest questions.
When and how did life originate on Earth? What does...
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April 26, 2013
Researchers discovered that the electric charge causes water molecules (oxygen is red and hydrogen is gray) to rearrange themselves to create a water bridge across the cell’s wall connecting the inside and the outside...
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April 24, 2013
Corporate sponsors take competition to the next level by helping students turn
their entrepreneurial ideas into viable businesses
. After six months of intense planning and programming, the winning team of the...
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April 22, 2013
REU students get a unique experience in Yosemite.Many universities offer the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program, but they don’t have what UC Merced has to offer.
“Yosemite really draws people in,”...
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April 18, 2013
Margo Souza makes $1 million gift to campus to motivate students to take
initiative and become civic-minded leaders
. Spurred by a gift from a prominent dairy woman, the University of California, Merced,...
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April 17, 2013
Management major Leanne McKenzie and economics major Mustafa Nawabzada are interning at the California State Assembly chief clerk’s office.Students Leanne McKenzie and Mustafa Nawabzada are getting an up-close look at...
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April 15, 2013
Students play games and participate in Earth Day activities.Sustainability being a campus hallmark, it’s no surprise the UC Merced campus takes Earth Day very seriously, even though the events planned are fun.
Each...
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April 11, 2013
The appearance of functional flexibility early in the first year of human life may have been a critical step in the evolution of human language.
The squeals, vowel-like sounds and growls made by infants are...
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April 9, 2013
"Paying for the Party" shows how a Midwest university accommodated the interests of socially oriented and out-of-state students to the detriment of students from less privileged backgrounds..
Many...
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April 8, 2013
As everyone knows, space is limited on the UC Merced campus.
But with a little money and a lot of persistence, Engineers for a Sustainable World has found a way to carve out a little room for a community garden.
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April 3, 2013
Karin Leiderman, left, and Suzanne Sindi, use mathematics to answer biological questions.Professor Suzanne Sindi found her calling in seventh grade, while reading “Jurassic Park.”
“I liked the idea that math is a tool...
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April 1, 2013
Kelly McNeil decided to enter the art show with her piece "Missionary to the Mole: Emily Dickinson" after taking two classes last semester.UC Merced artists are sharing their best work this semester in the...
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March 25, 2013
Team Leader Cesar Gamez and his fellow NISE Net group members plan their project.One group of engineering students is focusing on tiny ways to make big strides in education.
A 10-member Nanoscale Informal Science...
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March 22, 2013
Retired astronaut Jose Hernandez and award-winning author David Mas Masumoto
will address the Class of 2013
. Retired astronaut and engineer Jose Hernandez and acclaimed author and organic farmer David Mas...
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March 20, 2013
Professor Sachin Goyal, far right, graduate student Nitish Appanasamy, center, and undergraduate student Jesus Dolores model DNA deformations. People don’t often think of deformation as a good thing.
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March 18, 2013
Professor Rudy Ortiz received research funding from Amylin Pharmaceuticals.UC Merced biology Professor Rudy Ortiz is furthering his innovative research into diabetes with support from a major pharmaceutical company.
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March 13, 2013
Justin Hicks, '12, is putting his UC Merced graduate degree to use with The Information Technology & Innovation Foundation, a leading information-technology think tank in Washington, D.C.For alumnus Justin Hicks,...
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March 11, 2013
A collaboration between a dean and a professor and a grant from the National Science Foundation have made UC Merced part of a national nanotechnology-biology hub that will expand both knowledge and opportunities for...
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March 6, 2013
A couple years ago, Alejandra Vazquez signed up to be a community service officer on the UC Merced campus.
She thought she was just taking an interesting job, but for her and others, the experience has turned out to be...
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March 4, 2013
The theory that temperature limits how far up in the mountains trees can grow looks like it’s true, but not in the way researchers had expected.
Working with Professor Lara Kueppers, UC Merced postdoctoral researcher...
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February 27, 2013
Graduate student Kristynn Sullivan is pursuing quantitative psychology.Graduate students Kristynn Sullivan and Chris Fradkin took distinctly different routes to UC Merced.
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February 25, 2013
A pioneering American novelist and a former California Poet Laureate will be the keynote speakers at two April events being organized by graduate students and faculty in World Cultures.
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February 20, 2013
Annual display of varied research includes scientific discussions with students and faculty, a symposium by the Sierra Nevada Research Institute and a tour of planned natural reserve . Researchers at the...
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February 19, 2013
Peek in the windows at the Mechatronics, Embedded Systems and Automation (MESA) Lab sometime. You’ll probably see students flying small remote-controlled vehicles at all hours of the day and night.
Sometimes the...
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February 13, 2013
Graduate student Sharon Patris likes spending time at a lake in the middle of the forest on an uninhabited island in the western Pacific.
The marine lake named Ongiem’l Tketau and informally known as Jellyfish Lake, is...
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February 11, 2013
UC Merced School of Engineering Professor Elliott Campbell has co-authored a paper showing that mountaintop removal mining will dramatically accelerate the regional effects of global warming by turning natural carbon...
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February 6, 2013
A UC Merced professor is one of five finalists in an international challenge that could win him a $50,000 research grant and free access to a record-setting, ocean-going robot.
Professor Michael Beman, with the School...
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February 4, 2013
Sustainability is a campuswide practice.Sometimes, what goes on behind the scenes is as important as what happens in full view – especially when it comes to UC Merced’s pledge to uphold and develop new...
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January 31, 2013
School of Engineering credits corporation for outstanding partnership and for enhancing engineering students’ experiences. MERCED, Calif. — UC Merced honored the Pacific Gas and Electric Company with the School of...
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January 30, 2013
A powerful one-woman play that explores the troubling world of physical and sexual abuse debuts Feb. 23 as part of Arts UC Merced Presents.
“Black n Blue Boys/Broken Men,” written and performed by actress/poet/...
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January 28, 2013
As UC Merced’s new energy manager, it’s Varick Erickson’s job to watch every kilowatt hour used on campus and identify ways to save them.
“It’s a lot like rummaging around in the couch and looking for change,”...
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January 25, 2013
Professor Roland Winston knows a jellyfish that can help people see more clearly.
But it’s not the kind found in the ocean. It’s one that’s about to earn Winston and UC Merced a U.S. patent, and is the solution to a...
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January 22, 2013
Vadim Gassiy, a junior with a management major and political science minor, sees a future of infinite possibilities. Vadim Gassiy was in eighth grade when his mother encouraged him to leave Russia for a taste of...
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January 18, 2013
More than 17,000 applied to fill about 1,600 undergraduate spots and graduate student applications increased 6.6 percent, reflecting immense demand for a UC Merced education. Editor's Note: As of mid-February, UC...
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January 15, 2013
UC Merced Professor Cristián H. Ricci has been awarded a one-year grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to continue his research on Moroccan literature. University of California, Merced, literature...
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January 15, 2013
A study by UC Merced sociology Professor Laura Hamilton found that college students with parental support stay out of serious academic trouble, but dial down their academic effort. College students who aren't...
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January 14, 2013
Chinese history professor Ruth Mostern and collaborators are building a history database with funding from the National Science Foundation.The path from ancient China to information science might seem like a long one,...
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January 7, 2013
Graduate student Eric Josephs, left, and chemistry Professor Tao Ye hope to help engineer better biosensors for medical uses.The small-scale, cutting-edge work of graduate student Eric Josephs and chemistry Professor...
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December 18, 2012
Campus shows healthy growth, a wide reach into the San Joaquin Valley through investment and increased college-going rates, and a global view toward problem-solving. MERCED, Calif. — Though UC Merced looked back...
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December 17, 2012
Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Tom Peterson has been meeting with staff and faculty since arriving to campus earlier this month. Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Tom Peterson assumed his leadership role at...
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December 12, 2012
Carolin FrankProfessor Carolin Frank is concerned with the inner lives of trees.
She looks inside them to see whether microbes are part of – and perhaps even critical to – life functions such as growth.
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December 10, 2012
Students work to install a remote camera in the Los Banos Wetlands for a service-learning client.Students with a variety of skills and perspectives make up a team that’s taking engineering principles into some...
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December 5, 2012
Professor Christine IsbornProfessor Christine Isborn is doing quantum chemistry at the speed of graphics.
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December 3, 2012
Professor Erik RollandThe tougher a problem, the more creative a solution it needs, from the increasing power in orbiting satellites and saving tigers to saving state parks and catching thieves.
And when a problem...
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November 28, 2012
Students Michael Lane, front left, and Amanda Baijnauth, front right, write for softmatterworld.org with the help of Professor Linda Hirst, Merritt Writing Program Assistant Director Paul Gibbons and webmaster Adam...
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November 27, 2012
Counting the number of species that live in the Earth’s oceans sounds as impossible as counting the grains of sand on a beach.
But a global collaboration involving a UC Merced researcher and a graduate student is doing...
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November 21, 2012
UC Merced's Students First Center offers students a one-stop shop assisting with a wide array of areas.Students who visit the UC Merced Students First Center (SFC) in the lobby of the Leo and Dottie Kolligian Library...
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November 19, 2012
Kaitlyn Lubetkin, an engineering graduate student and Ph.D. candidate, is studying conifer encroachment in Yosemite.Graduate student Kaitlin Lubetkin and several sure-footed assistants spent much of the summer in...
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November 14, 2012
They sleep in secret, fuzzy beds and have questionable dietary habits. They prefer to be active in the evenings and early mornings. They are easily startled and can, if the situation calls for it, do some damage with...
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November 13, 2012
UC Merced is one of only seven universities nationwide to receive a grant from the Council of Graduate Schools to develop new approaches for enhancing graduate student skills for assessing undergraduate learning, and...
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