Student Life and Athletics
May 22, 2013
Alumnus Justin Duckham serves as a senior Washington correspondent with Talk Radio News Service.As a founding student at UC Merced, Justin Duckham, ’09, trudged up the hill every day for classes. Now, he spends...
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May 20, 2013
Graduate student Stephanie Huette will start in the fall at the University of Memphis, where she will teach and continue her research in a tenure-track position.Graduate student Stephanie Huette knew she would face...
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May 15, 2013
More than 1,000 students will turn their tassels at commencement this weekend;
most graduates in the campus’s history
. This year isn’t the first time Maxine Umeh-Garcia has walked across the commencement stage...
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May 15, 2013
Computer science and engineering major Andy Luhrs has landed a job working for Microsoft beginning in July.On his first tour of UC Merced almost five years ago, Andy Luhrs decided the campus was the right place...
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May 13, 2013
Jose Pablo Vazquez-Medina, who earned his doctorate in Quantitative Systems Biology, landed a position as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pennsylvania. Born in central Mexico, the sea has long...
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May 8, 2013
Senior sociology major Stephanie Toledo will be pursuing a master’s degree in public health at UC Davis.Stephanie Toledo didn't want anything to get in the way of her academic success when she arrived at UC Merced.
The...
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May 7, 2013
Donors Fred and Mitzie Ruiz creating endowment to honor the legacy of matriarch Rose Ruiz that will help students for years to come. Longtime UC Merced supporters Frederick R. and Mitzie Ruiz have made a generous...
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May 6, 2013
Tyler Shaddix’s house looks like most of the other houses on his block in a subdivision not far from the UC Merced campus.
It’s what’s inside that’s different – the home office of a startup company offering a web...
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April 26, 2013
Researchers discovered that the electric charge causes water molecules (oxygen is red and hydrogen is gray) to rearrange themselves to create a water bridge across the cell’s wall connecting the inside and the outside...
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April 24, 2013
Corporate sponsors take competition to the next level by helping students turn
their entrepreneurial ideas into viable businesses
. After six months of intense planning and programming, the winning team of the...
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April 22, 2013
REU students get a unique experience in Yosemite.Many universities offer the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program, but they don’t have what UC Merced has to offer.
“Yosemite really draws people in,”...
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April 18, 2013
Margo Souza makes $1 million gift to campus to motivate students to take
initiative and become civic-minded leaders
. Spurred by a gift from a prominent dairy woman, the University of California, Merced,...
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April 17, 2013
Management major Leanne McKenzie and economics major Mustafa Nawabzada are interning at the California State Assembly chief clerk’s office.Students Leanne McKenzie and Mustafa Nawabzada are getting an up-close look at...
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April 1, 2013
Kelly McNeil decided to enter the art show with her piece "Missionary to the Mole: Emily Dickinson" after taking two classes last semester.UC Merced artists are sharing their best work this semester in the...
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March 25, 2013
Team Leader Cesar Gamez and his fellow NISE Net group members plan their project.One group of engineering students is focusing on tiny ways to make big strides in education.
A 10-member Nanoscale Informal Science...
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March 22, 2013
Retired astronaut Jose Hernandez and award-winning author David Mas Masumoto
will address the Class of 2013
. Retired astronaut and engineer Jose Hernandez and acclaimed author and organic farmer David Mas...
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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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