Campus News
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 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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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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