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Campus announces public policy professional with past campus experience will fill the leadership role beginning Jan. 3

Corinne Lucero, who advocated at the federal level on behalf of the University of California, Merced, has been appointed the campus' director of government relations.

More than 1,800 new students plan to enroll, a 6 percent increase from last year

The University of California, Merced, will become the new headquarters of Engineers for a Sustainable World effective July 1, the university announced today.

Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW) is a fast-growing, global nonprofit network of about 4,000 students, faculty and professionals dedicated to building a sustainable world for current and future generations by way of collaborative, interdisciplinary engineering projects.

Juan C. Meza, named one of Hispanic Business magazine's 'Top 100 Influentials of 2009,'

is head of high-performance computing research at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

MERCED — The University of California, Merced, today announced the appointment of Juan C. Meza as the new dean of its School of Natural Sciences. He will join UC Merced in the fall.

University awarded 1,000th degree during ceremony; Kang urges graduates to act as global citizens and stewards in his final commencement address as chancellor

The University of California, Merced, today celebrates the opening of its state-of-the-art Stem Cell Instrumentation Foundry, made possible through the support of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) and Ed and Jeanne Kashian of Fresno.

 The foundry, housed on the first floor of the Science and Engineering Building, will expand the research capabilities of UC Merced's stem cell faculty members and serve as a resource for researchers throughout the state.

The University of California, Merced, will receive $600,000 in technical assistance from the U.S. Department of Energy as part of the Commercial Building Partnerships program, which is designed to accelerate the deployment of cost-effective, energy-saving measures in commercial buildings across the country.

MERCED — Leaders with the state and the University of California, Merced, today dedicated the site for the campus' fifth academic building, one that will expand the campus' research arm.

The three-story Science and Engineering Building 2 will be built next to the existing Science and Engineering Building and create 102,000 square feet of lab, instructional and support space.