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Anita Hill Named 10th Recipient of Spendlove Prize
May 3, 2016
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Anita Hill’s public testimony during the Senate confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas in 1991 raised national awareness of sexual harassment and led to many changes in workplace laws and practices to protect... Read More
New Supercomputing Cluster to Expand Campus Capabilities
May 2, 2016
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A proposal to conduct high-performance computing across science and engineering disciplines has won UC Merced and Professor Christine Isborn a research computing cluster that will be used for a variety of projects across campus. Each year... Read More
Innovate to Grow is Fertile Ground for University and Community Entrepreneurs
April 29, 2016
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As a senior engineering student, Michael Urner selected a capstone project he related to. Little did he know that his 2013 Innovation and Design Clinic (IDC) project would lead him to start his own companies through the UC Merced Venture... Read More
Awards Ceremony Honors Campus Leaders
April 29, 2016
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Each spring, the Margo F. Souza Student Leadership Center recognizes and celebrates students, staff and faculty members, and student organizations demonstrating outstanding leadership to the campus and the community. Thirty campus members... Read More
NIH Funds Research Into Stem Cells, Bone Disease
April 28, 2016
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A new study from UC Merced Professor Jennifer O. Manilay promises to shed new light on how bone diseases can affect the maintenance of healthy blood and immune cell development throughout life. Funded by a $434,000 grant over three years... Read More
Researchers Dive Into Big Data to Predict NBA Winners
April 27, 2016
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Before you place any bets on the next NBA playoff games, take a look at UC Merced Professor Harish Bhat’s Twitter account. He’s tweeting daily predictions based on an innovative new algorithm, and so far this postseason, he... Read More
Campus Hosts First UC-Wide Chess Tournament
April 26, 2016
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Chess players from across the UC system— ranging from beginners to international masters — convened for the 2016 UC Chess Championship held April 23 at the Joseph Edward Gallo Recreation Center gymnasium. The UC Merced Chess... Read More
UC Merced Receives $5 Million for Interdisciplinary Research Center
April 26, 2016
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Researchers at the University of California, Merced, won a $5 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study how biological matter like proteins or cells come together to perform specific tasks, effectively behaving as... Read More
Internship Program Enhances Students’ Academic Experiences
April 25, 2016
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Last fall, the Division of Student Affairs and the Office of Undergraduate Education launched an internship program with the goal of providing undergraduate students an opportunity to build experience and skills related to their career... Read More
UC Merced Student a Winner at Clinton Event
April 22, 2016
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Besides attending Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U) with 1,200 other college students from around the world, UC Merced student Hoaithi Dang helped his team win the weekend’s “Code for Impact” event in... Read More
Chancellor, Students Named Yosemite Centennial Ambassadors
April 22, 2016
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Considering the close ties between UC Merced and Yosemite National Park, it should be no surprise that several members of the campus community — including Chancellor Dorothy Leland — have been named Yosemite Centennial... Read More
Psychology Student Earns Ford Predoctoral Fellowship
April 20, 2016
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Doctoral student Patricia Cabral, who studies adolescent health risk behaviors in the Psychological Sciences graduate group, recently won a highly-competitive Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship — the first of... Read More
Downtown Center Focuses on Child Development
April 20, 2016
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Parents, caregivers and community members in the Merced area have a new resource for information about childhood development and disorders. The UC Merced Alliance for Child and Family Health and Development, in downtown Merced, is a place... Read More
Eat, Hydrate and Learn at This Year’s Earth Day Event
April 19, 2016
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Most people probably don’t think about food when considering how to celebrate Earth Day. But the UC Merced Student Sustainability Council wants to help people understand how what we eat and where it comes from is connected to... Read More
UC Merced Becomes Drone Use Policy Hub
April 18, 2016
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The drone research lab at the University of California, Merced, has catapulted the campus to the leading edge of the unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) field, and now the campus has been chosen as the new hub for UC systemwide policies,... Read More
Bodie Digital Preservation Project Earns CITRIS Grant
April 18, 2016
UC Merced Professor Nicola Lercari is leading an effort to preserve, through 3-D renderings, the deteriorating ghost town of Bodie. Thanks to $60,000 in seed funding from the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of... Read More
For GradSLAM Champion, Research Is Personal
April 15, 2016
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Arturo Durazo, winner of this year’s UC Merced GradSLAM! competition, has a personal connection to his research. The fifth-year Ph.D. candidate studies the psychological effects of debilitating illnesses. Most recently, he has been... Read More
Symposium Features Faculty Research on the ‘Developing Child’
April 15, 2016
UC Merced will host its third annual Symposium on the Child and Family on April 30, offering hours of talks by researchers on the theme of “The Developing Child in a Developing World.” The symposium has grown throughout its... Read More
Two Alumni Create Legacies Through Scholarship Endowments
April 14, 2016
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Jessica “JaeJae” Julian (2010) and Marko Zivanovic (2014) are proving that giving back shortly after graduation can be possible.  During the campus’s Giving Tuesday fundraising efforts last December, Julian and... Read More
Bobcat Day Brings Admitted Students to Campus
April 14, 2016
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Students from across California and their family members will converge on the UC Merced campus April 16 for Bobcat Day. The day is an opportunity for admitted students to visit campus, and talk with faculty and staff members and students... Read More