Campus News
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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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 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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November 8, 2012
Chris Swarth, experienced reserve manager, and Steve Shackelton, former national parks leader, hired to shepherd acreage into a UC reserve, develop educational and research programs. MERCED, Calif. — The effort to...
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November 7, 2012
Qianting Chen, a junior physics major, participated in the Center of Integrated Nanomechanical Systems (COINS) summer program at UC Merced.More than two dozen UC Merced undergraduates spent the summer exploring a tiny...
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November 5, 2012
Zhijiang "Justin" Ye wasn’t expecting to attend the newest campus in the UC system.
He just wanted to work with Professor Ashlie Martini.
When Ye, then a student at University of Minnesota, connected with Martini and...
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November 5, 2012
When UC Merced first announced it would be sending students to the national political conventions through The Washington Center program, senior Chelsea Coe never expected she'd be one of the lucky two.
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November 1, 2012
The Bernard Osher Foundation gives $500,000 to help community college students
reach their potential at UC Merced
. Students transferring to the University of California, Merced, from California community...
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October 31, 2012
Used acetone goes into the machine to be cleaned for re-use.Chemistry Professor Jason Hein and his students make a lot of compounds in the lab.
They also make a lot of chemical waste.
But Hein found a way to clean up...
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October 23, 2012
Cognitive science Professor Teenie MatlockIn an election year, as people are being machine-gunned with millions of dollars’ worth of political messages from all sorts of sources, it might be re-assuring (or distressing...
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October 22, 2012
Author Matthew Garcia will speak about his new book on Oct. 22.The author of a controversial new book offering fresh insight into Cesar Chavez and the labor union he led will speak Oct. 22 at UC Merced.
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October 17, 2012
On Oct. 25, the campus will celebrate its first 10 years since breaking ground in 2002 and the many successes it has achieved so far. UC Merced will commemorate the 10th anniversary of its groundbreaking with a...
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