Professor Awarded Collaborative Grant in Solar Energy Conversion

shernandez-jason — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:15:46 +0000

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02/22/2012

Professor Boaz Ilan

UC Merced applied math Professor Boaz Ilan is a major contributor to a national research team exploring a novel way to use fractal geometry to improve the production of electricity in solar panels.

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Library Digitizes Civil War Diaries from Valley Family

shernandez-jason — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:28:38 +0000

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02/15/2012

Henry O. Nightingale, an abolitionist and Union soldier, wrote in his diary about his firsthand account of Lincoln's assassination at Ford's Theatre.

Diaries belonging to a Civil War soldier who witnessed the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln have been digitized and published by UC Merced's Kolligian Library.

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Graduate Student Focuses Research on Infectious Disease

shernandez-jason — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:46:12 +0000

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02/09/2012

Mufadhal Al-Kuhlani, a graduate student with the Quantitative and Systems Biology group, is set to graduate this year.

Mufadhal Al-Kuhlani came to UC Merced to help reduce the threat of harmful diseases through innovative research.

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National Geographic Film Chronicles Highland Research

shernandez-jason — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:26:12 +0000

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02/07/2012

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Engineering Professor Looks to Make an Impact

jleonard3 — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:19:33 +0000

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02/07/2012

Professor Ashlie Martini

Professor Ashlie Martini was looking for the chance to make a difference when she took a post at UC Merced.

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UC Research Resource Center to Serve San Joaquin Valley

shernandez-jason — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:23:09 +0000

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02/06/2012

New center aims to improve the lives of the San Joaquin Valley's most underserved residents by empowering them to engage in research that supports their community’s issues

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The Participatory Action Research Resource Center (PARRC) will open Feb. 14 in Fresno.

The center builds on a five-year effort to create a strong relationship between higher education and the community.

The center will train community members to improve the San Joaquin Valley through asking and answering strategic questions about their lives.

An innovative community-university partnership to empower San Joaquin Valley residents to analyze and communicate their most pressing challenges launches in Fresno this month.

The Participatory Action Research Resource Center (PARRC) will strengthen residents' skills in using research to improve their lives. It will also promote research collaborations between the University of California and other higher education institutions and communities.

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Major Construction Under Way at UC Merced

jleonard3 — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:12:04 +0000

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02/03/2012

Four projects will increase campus' physical space by 25 percent, adding nearly 270,000 gross square feet

Planned Science and Engineering Building 2 (rendering)

UC Merced is entering a significant new phase of construction, the likes of which the campus has not seen since before it opened in 2005.

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Community-Engaged Research Serves San Joaquin Valley

shernandez-jason — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:28:52 +0000

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01/30/2012

About 180 people attended a conference at UC Merced that connected researchers with community members working to improve the lives of the San Joaquin Valley's young people.

The December conference, "Building Healthy Youth in Merced County: Community Engagement and Scholarship," showcased successful research and evidence-based programs that can promote positive youth development in Merced County. It was organized by the campus' Chancellor's Task Force on Community Engaged Scholarship and sponsored by the Building Healthy Communities initiative.

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Graduate Student Finds New Career in Military Research

bortiz — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:33:53 +0000

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01/27/2012

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Campus' Math Course Launches UC Online Program

shernandez-jason — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:37:07 +0000

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01/24/2012

University of California's online instruction program is a systemwide effort that aims to explore and develop the use of online education in UC's undergraduate curriculum

UC Merced is the first campus to offer a course through the UC's online instruction program.

A calculus course at UC Merced marks the first class to be offered through the University of California's online instruction project, with several more courses to be rolled out in early April. The program's inaugural course, which began Jan. 17, is a preparatory calculus class taught by instructors Lei Yue and Maria Albert.

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Computer Scientist Earns Prestigious Early-Career Research Award

jleonard3 — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:57:57 +0000

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01/23/2012

UC Merced engineering Professor Ming-Hsuan Yang receives National Science Foundation's CAREER Award to improve visual tracking abilities in machines

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UC Merced engineering Professor Ming-Hsuan Yang has received the National Science Foundation's Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award to further his work on improving visual tracking abilities in machines.

The award will fund Yang's research into improving visual tracking of objects by computerized machines.

The research could have broad applications, including assistive technology for the visually impaired and improved navigation and surveillance capabilities in robots.

Engineering Professor Ming-Hsuan Yang of the University of California, Merced, has been named a recipient of the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award to further his work on improving visual tracking abilities in machines.

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Campus Receives National Award for Educational Programming

bortiz — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 21:38:20 +0000

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01/20/2012

UC Merced honored for utilizing new, effective and innovative systems to evaluate and demonstrate student outcomes

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UC Merced received a national award from the Council for Higher Education Accreditation.

The campus was selected for demonstrating its capacity to address the challenges of student learning outcomes while providing increasing accountability.

UC Merced is one of three institutions selected from 47 applications submitted nationwide.

The University of California, Merced, has been awarded the 2012 Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) Award for Outstanding Institutional Practice in Student Learning Outcomes.

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Researchers' Refinement Increases Solar Concentrator Efficiency

shernandez-jason — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:39:22 +0000

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01/19/2012

A team of UC Merced professors and students discovered that changing the shape of a solar concentrator significantly increases its efficiency, bringing its use closer to reality

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UC Merced researchers discovered that a solar concentrator in the shape of a hollow tube is more efficient than existing designs.

The refinement brings the use of luminescent solar concentrators one step closer to reality.

The next step is to develop a large array of hollow cylindrical luminescent solar concentrators and track the efficiency of the panel.

A team of researchers at the University of California, Merced, has redesigned luminescent solar concentrators to be more efficient at sending sunlight to solar cells.

The advancement could be an important breakthrough for solar energy harvesting, said UC Merced physics Professor Sayantani Ghosh, who led the project.

"We tweaked the traditional flat design for luminescent solar concentrators and made them into cylinders," Ghosh said. "The results of this architectural redesign surprised us, as it significantly improves their efficiency."

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Dean Charts Vision for Natural Sciences

shernandez-jason — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:22:43 +0000

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01/18/2012

Dean of Natural Sciences Juan Meza wants his school to be one of the leaders in multidisciplinary research.

Dean of Natural Sciences Juan Meza began his tenure at UC Merced in September, and he wasted no time in meeting with undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and staff to learn about the areas where the school is doing well and look for places to improve.

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Campus Sees Another Increase in Applications

bortiz — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:16:56 +0000

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01/12/2012

UC Merced receives more than 15,000 applications, a nearly 10 percent boost over 2011

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UC Merced received 15,054 undergraduate applications for the 2012 academic year, a 9.9 percent increase over 2011.

Total applications to all 10 UC campuses reached a record 160,939.

UC Merced was the only campus in the system to see an increase in transfer applications.

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UC Merced and Fresno Unified Leverage Resources to Increase Rate of Valley Grads Going to College

bortiz — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:24:54 +0000

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01/10/2012

Partnership helps high school students realize their dream of postsecondary education

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UC Merced and Fresno Unified School District are partnering to help better prepare students to graduate from high school and get into college.

Coordinators from UC Merced’s Center for Educational Partnerships will work with students at each high school in the district to provide academic, college and financial aid counseling.

The partnership is made possible through state, federal and private funding sources, including a recent $1.15 million Talent Search grant from the Department of Education.

The Center for Educational Partnerships (CEP) at the University of California, Merced, has teamed up with the Fresno Unified School District to support an important mission — helping more high school students graduate and get accepted to college.

Through a unique partnership, full-time coordinators from the CEP will work with high school counseling teams at every Fresno Unified high school in an effort to increase college-going rates.

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Poli Sci Graduate Discipline to Debut in Fall

shernandez-jason — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:29:20 +0000

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01/10/2012

Professor Jessica L. Trounstine said there will be two political science subfields for graduate students to study at UC Merced.

Graduate students interested in studying at UC Merced will have one more discipline to pursue this fall.

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Graduate Student at Home with Mountain Water Research

jleonard3 — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:48:48 +0000

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01/06/2012

Graduate student Peter Kirchner conducts mountain hydrology research with Professor Roger Bales in the Sierra Nevada Research Institute.

Peter Kirchner may have been born in California’s San Fernando Valley, but his heart and mind have always been close to the mountains.

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Students Benefit from Professor's Costume Design Expertise

shernandez-jason — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:24:27 +0000

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01/03/2012

Professor Dunya Ramicova designed costumes for four projects last year, including the Metropolitan Opera production of 'Nixon in China.'

Dunya Ramicova's costume designs have enchanted audiences for decades, but some of her biggest fans now sit in UC Merced classrooms.

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Campus Fulfilling Mission to Give Back

bortiz — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 17:35:51 +0000

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12/23/2011

UC Merced’s Staff Assembly wrapped up its 2011 canned food drive, collecting more than 385 pounds of nonperishable food items for the Merced County Food Bank.

From spearheading canned food drives to collecting toys for underprivileged children, UC Merced students, staff and faculty are giving back this holiday season.

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