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Cognitive Scientist Shows How the Brain Can Assemble New Ideas from Old Parts
September 26, 2013
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People routinely encounter familiar components from everyday life in new combinations, such as when a co-worker takes on a new role or a sentence uses a word in a new way. We typically excel at interpreting these new experiences, but... Read More
UC Merced Professor’s Research Helping People Get Well
September 23, 2013
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Chances are, sometime in your life, you’ll need an antibiotic. But did you know that bacteria are evolving antibiotic resistance so quickly – and pharmaceutical companies are not inventing new antibiotics – that soon, there will not be... Read More
UC Merced Sees 26 Percent Increase in Private Funding
September 19, 2013
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The University of California, Merced, recorded $5.04 million in private gift and grant support from July 1, 2012 to June 30, 2013 — an increase of 26 percent over the last fiscal year’s total of $3.98 million. The percentage increase in... Read More
UC Goes Social to Raise Scholarship Funds
September 18, 2013
The University of California today (Sept. 18) began Promise for Education, a six-week crowd-funding campaign to engage students, faculty, alumni, celebrities, businesses, politicians and supporters in a novel drive to raise money for UC... Read More
Exhibit Brings Valley Threads Together
September 16, 2013
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An exhibit coordinated by a UC Merced professor weaves together music, literature, photography, video and oral history to tell stories of the workers who keep the region’s economy moving. "Central Valley Threads: Picking Out Strands of... Read More
Roderic Park, Former Acting Chancellor, Dies at 81
September 13, 2013
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Roderic Park, former acting chancellor of UC Merced and a major campus planner and benefactor, passed away on Sept. 6. He was 81. A distinguished professor, researcher and administrator who spent most of his career at UC Berkeley, Park... Read More
UC Solar Extends UC Merced’s Reach Across the Pacific
September 11, 2013
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Professor Roland Winston’s work has helped take UC Merced and UC Solar global – this time it’s to Singapore. The small city-nation is experiencing a building boom, and developers have plans to use Winston’s designs for a solar collector... Read More
UC Merced Alum Travels to U.K. for Master’s Program in Brain Sciences
September 9, 2013
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With UC Merced in her hometown, Hillary Brown had an easy commute to her college campus. She’ll log many more miles on the way to graduate school. Brown is headed to the University of Glasgow in Scotland for a year-long, master’s-level... Read More
UC Merced San Joaquin Valley PRIME Announces Third Class of Students
September 4, 2013
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Six students with close ties to the San Joaquin Valley are on track to becoming physicians as part of the UC Merced San Joaquin Valley Program in Medical Education (PRIME). The group, which began their medical studies recently in... Read More
Well-known Technology Sees New Use in Solar Collection
September 3, 2013
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Adapting technology that has become the standard in the automotive, aerospace and air-conditioning industries, Professor Gerardo Diaz has designed and is testing the next generation of solar-collecting units at UC Merced. ”We’re getting... Read More
UC Merced Alumnus’s Rim Fire Map Generates Lots of Attention
August 30, 2013
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As the Rim Fire continues to burn in and around Yosemite National Park, a former UC Merced student’s work related to the fire burned up the Internet this week. Paul Doherty, the first Yosemite park ranger to complete a doctoral degree at... Read More
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy to Perform at Local Theater
August 30, 2013
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Big Bad Voodoo Daddy brings its swinging sound to downtown Merced this fall, an event organized by Arts UC Merced Presents. The high-energy, nine-piece ensemble, which helped jumpstart the swing revival in the mid-90s, is celebrating its... Read More
UC Merced Welcomes Four New Board of Trustee Members
August 30, 2013
University of California, Merced, welcomes four new members to the UC Merced Foundation Board of Trustees. Representing an expansive and influential network, the newest members are: Gary Kremen, Silicon Valley entrepreneur and founder of... Read More
Mammoth Bones to be Displayed, Studied
August 28, 2013
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The youngest University of California campus is now the steward of some ancient remains. Columbian mammoth bones dating back to the last Ice Age were transferred recently to a storage facility at UC Merced's building at Castle Commerce... Read More
Record Enrollment, Larger Faculty, Increased Emphasis on Research and Graduate Programs Mark Campus's Ninth Year
August 27, 2013
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The University of California, Merced, kicks off its 2013-14 academic year today with the largest and most diverse class of incoming freshmen, the largest contingent of graduate students, the largest total enrollment and the largest body of... Read More
On-Campus Housing Accommodates 2,100 Students This Year
August 26, 2013
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Although the UC Merced campus is entering its ninth academic year, the campus is still in a constant state of expansion. To fill a demand for more housing, the newest residence hall — Half Dome — was recently completed and... Read More
South African Reconciliation Leader to Receive Spendlove Prize
August 23, 2013
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Jonathan D. Jansen, vice chancellor and rector of the University of the Free State and South Africa's first black dean, has been named the 2013 recipient of the Alice and Clifford Spendlove Prize in Social Justice, Diplomacy and Tolerance... Read More
Connection Remains Strong for Bioengineering Grad
August 22, 2013
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It has been four years since Mike Oliveira earned his bachelor’s degree in bioengineering at UC Merced, but the campus still feels like home to him. Now pursuing a Ph.D. at UC Riverside, Oliveira watched last year as his younger brother... Read More
Building Earns Campus 11th LEED Certification
August 21, 2013
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UC Merced announces the U.S. Green Building Council has awarded platinum LEED certification to the Social Sciences and Management Building. Every building project on campus has already or is expected to attain LEED (Leadership in Energy... Read More
Merritt Writing Program Lecturer Reaches Students with Comic Books
August 14, 2013
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In John Bultena’s writing classes, students often explore new literary classics. Like “Batwoman Volume 1: Hydrology.” Bultena, a lecturer in UC Merced’s Merritt Writing Program and recent panelist at San Diego Comic Con, uses comic books... Read More