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‘Swarmathon’ Robotics Team Competes at Cape Canaveral
June 1, 2017
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Manuel Meraz transferred to UC Merced with a mission: to revive what had once been an award-winning, student-led robotics scene on campus. Meraz had just completed a robotics internship at the University of New Mexico, where his advisor... Read More
Former ASUCM President Gaining Capitol Experience
May 30, 2017
Domonique Jones
Domonique Jones got a taste of public office while serving as president of the Associated Students of UC Merced (ASUCM). Now the 2016 graduate is furthering that information in the state Capitol. Since her graduation, Jones has been... Read More
Campus Launches Countywide Food and Ag Exchange
May 24, 2017
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UC Merced is taking steps to fight hunger and tackle food waste on campus and across Merced County. The campus has launched CropMobster Merced County, an online food and agricultural exchange and community engagement program to help... Read More
CREST Center Hosts Local Students for Science and Engineering Event
May 22, 2017
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Students from Burbank and Peterson Elementary Schools in Merced participated in a day of interactive science and engineering hosted last month by UC Merced’s Center for Cellular and Biomolecular Machines (CCBM), a National Science... Read More
Prachumsri Named Men’s Volleyball Coach
May 22, 2017
Surabordin "Ai" Prachumsri
UC Merced’s Athletics Department has hired women's volleyball coach and alumnus Surabordin "Ai" Prachumsri as the men's volleyball head coach. He will remain coach of the women’s team, as well.... Read More
Golf Fundraiser Catapults to New Record
May 19, 2017
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The seventh annual Building Future Champions Dinner and Auction and the 20th annual Ma Kelley Memorial Shoot-Out golf tournament, held over two days last month at the Turlock Golf and Country Club, were a win-win for participants and for... Read More
Governor Names Harris to Fair Employment and Housing Council
May 18, 2017
Mark T. Harris
Mark T. Harris, J.D., has been appointed to the California Fair Employment and Housing Council by Gov. Jerry Brown. Harris is a continuing lecturer of management and business economics at UC Merced since 2008 and a practicing attorney in... Read More
UC Merced Library Chosen to Digitize AIDS Historical Archives
May 17, 2017
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The UC Merced Library’s digital assets team is playing an important role in providing access to a swath of modern history that will contribute to research and society. The team has been asked to digitize about 127,000 pages from 49... Read More
EECU Gift Helps Enrich Valley Teachers
May 16, 2017
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Dozens of educators took part in the CalTeach Professional Development Summer Institute for Valley Teachers last year, and thanks to another generous gift from Educational Employees Credit Union (EECU) the program will continue so more can... Read More
Campus Marks Largest Class, Year of Growth With 2017 Commencement
May 11, 2017
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More than 1,200 undergraduate and graduate students are expected to participate in the University of California, Merced’s 12th commencement ceremonies this weekend — its largest class since opening in September 2005 —... Read More
Students’ Engineering Chops to be Showcased at ‘Innovate to Grow’
May 10, 2017
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Is it still possible to build a better mouse trap? Engineering students at UC Merced think so. “Eraticate” — a fitting name for a group focused on mouse trap optimization — isn’t concerned with the cliché... Read More
NSF Grant Brings Powerful New Microscope to Campus
May 9, 2017
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UC Merced added a powerful new tool to the campus’s Imaging and Microscopy Facility. The newly acquired Zeiss LSM 880 is a state-of-the-art laser scanning confocal microscope that represents a huge leap forward for the university... Read More
Student Speakers Share Desire to Make a Difference
May 9, 2017
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Jocelyne Fadiga and Havilliah “Jake” Malsbury traveled from different worlds to study at UC Merced. The youngest sister of 13 children, Fadiga grew up in Côte d’Ivoire (the Ivory Coast) in West Africa before immigrating... Read More
New Collaboration Focuses on Refugee Stories, Experiences and Humanity
May 8, 2017
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Often, when people talk about or study refugees, the focus is on policy, rescue operations or terrorism. Rarely is the conversation centered on refugees as human beings. But a new collaboration among five UC campuses — including UC... Read More
‘Water in the Balance’ Highlights UC Merced Research
May 5, 2017
Filming in Yosemite
Water is a delicate balancing act in California. When the scales tip in the wrong direction, the consequences can have national effects. Nobody knows this better than UC Water Co-Director Joshua Viers. “More than half of the nation... Read More
Shakespeare, Muir Come Alive in Yosemite for Earth Day
May 4, 2017
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The works of Shakespeare, perhaps more so than any in the western canon, have been subject to reinterpretation and reappraisal by generations of artists, scholars and laypeople. Some, like Verdi’s opera “Otello,” are... Read More
Class of 2017 Shows Anything is Possible at UC Merced
May 3, 2017
Commencement is May 13 and 14
The newest campus in the University of California system, UC Merced is a campus that attracts leaders — individuals who enjoy the challenge of paving the way for others to follow — and the Class of 2017 is no different. On... Read More
Students Help Campus Earn Latest LEED Certification
May 1, 2017
The LEED Lab is a multidisciplinary, hands-on course offered to undergraduate students who are interested in sustainable design and operations.
UC Merced’s Classroom and Office Building (COB) has achieved a silver rating from the LEED Building Operations and Maintenance (O+M) sustainability program, the campus’s first certification to come from the LEED Lab Engineering... Read More
National Book Award Winner to Give Talk on Racism
April 28, 2017
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Ibram X. Kendi, one of the nation’s most prolific and accomplished young professors of race, is this spring’s guest speaker as part of the Chancellor’s Dialogue on Diversity and Interdisciplinarity lecture series.... Read More
Mike Barbee Named New Cross Country Coach
April 28, 2017
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UC Merced’s Athletics Department has hired Mike Barbee as men's and women's cross country coach. A 14-year coaching veteran with experience at the NCAA, community college and high school levels, Barbee joins the Bobcats as... Read More