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Message From Chancellor Leland on Student Jennifer Mendiola
December 7, 2016
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The following message from Chancellor Dorothy Leland was sent to the campus community today, Dec. 7: Dear UC Merced Campus Community, It is with deep sadness and a heavy heart that I write today to inform you that graduate student... Read More
Picking Over the Past Provides Clues to the Future
November 30, 2016
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UC Merced professors Jessica Blois and Justin Yeakel and their graduate students are sifting through time, picking out tiny clues that will give them a mouse’s eye view of the ecosystem that surrounded what is now the La Brea Tar... Read More
High-Altitude Archaeology Uncovers Earliest Evidence of Potato Consumption
November 28, 2016
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Every French fry, gnocchi, tater tot and order of hash browns humans have eaten in the past 5,000 years can be traced back to one place in the world — northwestern Bolivia and southern Peru. A paper by UC Merced Professor Mark... Read More
'Revolutionary Theatre' Performance to Explore Racism, Inequality
November 28, 2016
Students in the UC Merced Global Arts Studies Program will present “Voices of the Revolutionary Theatre Collective” Dec. 8 at the Merced Multicultural Arts Center. The production will explore the history of embedded racism... Read More
Massive VR System Links Merced to the World
November 23, 2016
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Imagine being able to explore the newly discovered hidden chambers in the Great Pyramid of Giza or microstructures within the human brain, to work on big-data projects with CERN or participate with performers in Australia — all... Read More
Valley High Schoolers Gain Insight Into UC
November 23, 2016
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More than 90 students from high schools in Tulare and Fresno counties visited UC Merced last week to gain practical information and resources to help them prepare for and apply to the University of California. The event was the second of... Read More
Student, Alumni Creating a Culture of Giving on Campus
November 21, 2016
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Management and business economics major Christopher Bernal is leaving a legacy at UC Merced, as the first student to establish an endowed scholarship to support other UC Merced students in their quest for college degrees. Bernal and two... Read More
Will Shadish Memorial Fellowship Announced for Giving Tuesday
November 17, 2016
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During this year’s Giving Tuesday — an international day of giving held each year on the first Tuesday after Thanksgiving — UC Merced will honor Professor Will Shadish with a new graduate student fellowship fund. On Nov... Read More
People in Eurasia are Genetic Hybrids with Evolutionary Advantages, Study Shows
November 16, 2016
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It’s not just luck or practice that gets Sherpa mountaineers up the slopes of Mt. Everest each year. Functioning so well at extreme elevations is in the Sherpa and Tibetan DNA — literally. A new study by UC Merced Professor... Read More
Cheer Team Steps Up to Support Junior College
November 10, 2016
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The UC Merced Cheer Team is stepping up to support its neighbors. Nearby Merced College doesn’t have an active spirit squad, so UC Merced’s team will root on the sidelines for the Blue Devils’ football team when it takes... Read More
Grad Student’s Water-Mapping Work Leads to National Recognition
November 9, 2016
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UC Merced graduate student Lorenzo Booth’s research into more efficient use of water for agriculture has earned him accolades from the American Water Resources Association for not only producing information, but presenting solutions... Read More
UC Merced Among the Country’s Most Sustainable Campuses
November 7, 2016
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UC Merced is recognized as a top performer in the annual 2016 Sustainable Campus Index, tying for third with two other UC campuses for its sustainable investment practices. This is the second time UC Merced has made the Index, and comes... Read More
Alumnus Stays Local, Launches Environmentally Friendly Career
November 2, 2016
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Stephen Ho’s experience at UC Merced helped him land an internship with E. & J. Gallo Winery in Livingston shortly after his graduation in 2012. His engineering expertise, passion for the environment and innovative spirit... Read More
The Real Horror of ‘Frankenstein:’ Human Extinction
October 28, 2016
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If fictional scientist Victor Frankenstein had created a mate for his nameless Creature, humans would have gone extinct in about 4,000 years, according to a new study co-authored by a UC Merced professor. Two hundred years ago this year,... Read More
New Class Designed to Teach Students to Think Like Engineers
October 26, 2016
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Students often expect that in classes, there will always be a right answer. Multilayered engineering problems with uncertain outcomes are a challenge for any student, but especially for first-generation learners who don’t have... Read More
Annual Event Celebrates All Things Sustainable
October 25, 2016
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The Student Sustainability Council is hosting the second annual EcoFest from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 27, on Scholars Lane, hoping to encourage the campus’s culture of sustainability. “Our theme is growth —... Read More
Researcher’s Work Could Help Stop Aggressive Breast Cancers
October 21, 2016
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Adjunct Professor Gabriela Loots is studying why certain cancers prefer to metastasize to bone, using novel technology developed by fellow UC Merced Professor Michael Cleary. Her work, which takes place mainly at Lawrence Livermore... Read More
Grad Students Help Begin Academic Exchange With Honduras
October 20, 2016
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Four UC Merced graduate students got a rare opportunity to establish and strengthen relationships between the campus and the National Autonomous University of Honduras (UNAH) this summer. The students — Danielle Bermudez, Maria Mora... Read More
Grad Students Help Begin Academic Exchange With Honduras
October 20, 2016
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Four UC Merced graduate students got a rare opportunity to establish and strengthen relationships between the campus and the National Autonomous University of Honduras (UNAH) this summer. The students — Danielle Bermudez,... Read More
Student Health and Counseling Services Receive National Accreditation
October 19, 2016
UC Merced’s H. Rajender Reddy Health Center, Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) and Health Promotion received accreditation from the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (... Read More