Student Life and Athletics
December 6, 2013
The newest UC campus prides itself on its commitment to community service and helping others.
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December 4, 2013
Jose Garcia, a fourth-year student, will spend next summer as the only intern in Chevron Oronite’s Tribology division, with a small group of researchers who delve into lubricants, additives and the relationship between...
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November 25, 2013
The 5-year-old project, which has already provided unprecedented information for water managers, will continue into 2018 and help rural and urban economies. Research in the Sierra Nevada central to addressing...
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November 18, 2013
Bodo Winter is studying cognitive science and is part of an interdisciplinary program that integrates methods and approaches from linguistics, psychology, philosophy, neuroscience and computer science.Most students don...
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November 13, 2013
As the world continues to amass more digital data everyday, thousands of skilled mathematicians will be needed to slice it into meaningful pieces that can help power the information economy.
With the help of an $880,...
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November 12, 2013
Graduate student Ryan Lucas is living a mountain-lover’s dream through his research.
As part of engineering Professor Martha Conklin’s meadows-hydrology lab, he gets to spend a lot of time in the Sierra Nevada in...
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November 7, 2013
Stephanie Gamboa was so worried about money that she considered enrolling in community college.
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November 6, 2013
For Melissa Ugaldes and many San Joaquin Valley high school students like her, a University of California education might not be an obvious option.
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October 31, 2013
Emmanuel Villanueva, a junior from Fresno, is one of the four students in the Minority Access to Research Careers program.A dozen UC Merced undergraduates will gain an edge in their journey toward a career in...
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October 25, 2013
A research team comprising faculty members in cognitive science, applied mathematics and evolutionary biology hopes to understand more about how molecules and languages adapt in similar ways.. An interdisciplinary...
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October 18, 2013
Two University of California, Merced, students – Viridiana Murillo and Alexandro Perez-Tovar – won first prize in their divisions at the recent Society for Advancement of Hispanics/Chicanos & Native Americans in...
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October 9, 2013
Julio Flores spent part of the summer conducting research at Georgia Regents University as part of the Undergraduate Physician Scientist and Research Training (UPSTaRT) program.First, UC Merced senior Julio Flores...
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October 7, 2013
UC Merced’s first Ph.D. graduate is back on campus. But this time, Ricardo Cisneros isn’t enrolled as a student; he’s a professor instead.
Cisneros, who earned his doctorate in Environmental Systems from the School of...
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October 4, 2013
UC President Janet Napolitano met with undergraduate and graduate students Thursday during her campus visit. University of California President Janet Napolitano toured UC Merced on Thursday, her first visit to a campus...
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October 1, 2013
The university sees 7 percent overall increase in undergraduate students;
Plans slower growth for next academic year
. A fall census shows enrollment at the University of California, Merced, has reached 6,195...
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September 30, 2013
Grant enables increased research and a direct benefit to the San Joaquin Valley’s evolving economic destiny
. UC Merced has a unique opportunity to help the San Joaquin Valley as the university forges the newest...
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September 26, 2013
People routinely encounter familiar components from everyday life in new combinations, such as when a co-worker takes on a new role or a sentence uses a word in a new way.
We typically excel at interpreting these new...
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September 23, 2013
Chances are, sometime in your life, you’ll need an antibiotic.
But did you know that bacteria are evolving antibiotic resistance so quickly – and pharmaceutical companies are not inventing new antibiotics – that soon,...
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September 18, 2013
The University of California today (Sept. 18) began Promise for Education, a six-week crowd-funding campaign to engage students, faculty, alumni, celebrities, businesses, politicians and supporters in a novel drive to...
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September 9, 2013
Alumna Hillary Brown is headed to the University of Glasgow in Scotland for a year-long, master’s-level program in brain sciences.With UC Merced in her hometown, Hillary Brown had an easy commute to her college campus.
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