Campus News
August 20, 2012
New students make their way across the Scholars Lane Bridge, an annual tradition. This week, UC Merced welcomes more than 1,400 new first-year, transfer and graduate students to campus. Special programs are happening...
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August 15, 2012
UC Merced's new chief academic officer brings extensive experience in higher education, research, fundraising and collaboration to vital position. Thomas W. Peterson (Photo courtesy of Sandy Schaeffer...
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August 15, 2012
UC Merced researchers with the Sierra Nevada Research Institute are taking mountain water monitoring to the next level with sensor network in the American River Basin. MERCED, Calif. — Researchers at UC Merced are...
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August 15, 2012
High school student Francisco Abendano Jr., pictured with his parents and siblings, is working hard to make college a reality. Francisco Abendano Jr., a sophomore at Madera High School, is like many 15-year-olds. He is...
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August 13, 2012
Sophomore Demonte Hughes from Inglewood enjoys the benefits of renting textbooks to keep his college expenses minimal.Like many students, UC Merced sophomore Demonte Hughes is gearing up for the fall semester....
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July 30, 2012
Graduate student Neeraj Sharma, left, and engineering Professor Gerardo Diaz work together to turn waste into steam to power equipment for their biomass research.There’s a reason the UC Merced plasma lab is isolated...
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July 23, 2012
Students Eunnara Cho (left) Keeryung Park (center) and Yea Na Shin, from Dankook University, near Seoul, South Korea, calibrate a thermocoupler in their summer class at UC Solar.They traveled nearly 20 hours by plane...
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July 23, 2012
Six more students accepted into medical education program that helps to address the pressing health concerns of the San Joaquin Valley
. Six students, all with ties to the San Joaquin Valley, have been admitted...
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July 18, 2012
UC Merced and the Great Valley Center release environmental indicators report showing some progress, though ozone levels still surpass state and federal air quality standards. California's Central Valley...
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July 16, 2012
Graduate student Graham Thompson and undergraduate student Priscilla Montez this summer will ask people to arrange animal names on a whiteboard to express how they conceptualize the semantic relations among them. From...
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July 13, 2012
Jim Genes, left, and John Elliott recently won a UC systemwide award for their work in making the campus sustainable.Making an entire campus sustainable takes a lot of planning, education and work.
But those efforts...
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July 9, 2012
Biological sciences major Portia Mira has overcome plenty, but she has found a way to pursue her dreams of a career and a family.Portia Mira considers herself lucky. Although the UC Merced senior was taken from her...
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July 3, 2012
Endowment at UC Merced will fund renowned scholar's innovative research into how people understand and generate meaning. Cognitive science Professor Teenie Matlock has been named the McClatchy Chair in...
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July 2, 2012
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June 20, 2012
Math and physics major John Li will travel to China this summer as a Strauss Foundation Public Service Scholar to perform magic for orphaned children.When a deadly earthquake shook the Sichuan province of his native...
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June 13, 2012
UC Merced Latino Leadership Initiative participants already planning their
future impact on the San Joaquin Valley
. Five University of California, Merced, undergraduate students have been selected to attend...
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June 6, 2012
Graduate student Michael Eissinger recently published a book about the Madera County community of Fairmead.An academic focus on the Central Valley region’s historically African-American communities brought Michael...
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June 1, 2012
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May 29, 2012
Professor Jing Xu's findings published in Nature Communications last month identify a novel pathway for regulating nanomotor function, and suggest the possibility of using cellular cue to rescuing cell health.A...
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May 23, 2012
Fidel Cervantes, who was invited to attend the John F. Kennedy School of Government’s Public Policy and Leadership Conference at Harvard University, serves on Delhi Unified School District’s school board.Fidel...
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