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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
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
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
Fulbright Scholar in Search of ‘Lost Science’ in Brazil
April 17, 2017
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Chris Fradkin, a UC Merced lecturer and alumnus, is heading to Brazil in search of “lost science.” The term, first coined in 1995 in a Scientific American article by W. Wayt Gibbs, refers to the untold amount of viable... Read More
Pesquisador do Programa Fulbright em Busca de 'Ciência Perdida' no Brasil
April 17, 2017
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Por James Leonard, Comunicações Universitárias Traduzido por Gracy Durães Mantoan Chris Fradkin, professor e ex-aluno da Universidade da Califórnia em Merced, está indo para o Brasil em busca de "ciência perdida." O termo,... Read More
Study Identifies Effects of EU Expansion on Labor, Research
April 12, 2017
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Rather than a brain-drain, the 13-country European Union (EU) expansion initiated more than a decade ago triggered a brain-reconfiguration — the rising circulation of knowledge through the increased mobility of highly skilled workers... Read More
UC Merced, National Park Service to Present Shakespeare in Yosemite
April 10, 2017
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In partnership with the National Park Service and the University of Warwick (U.K.), the University of California, Merced, will produce “Shakespeare in Yosemite,” featuring local and student actors performing excerpts from... Read More
Alchemy Turns Thought into Art
April 5, 2017
Join renowned artist Dwight Wigley and create your own piece of a community art project. As part of the annual Merced Art Hop, everyone is invited to paint tiles that will be placed into a structure designed by Wigley to create a... Read More
Researcher Tracking Teens Who Attempted Suicide
April 3, 2017
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More than 120,000 young people ages 10 to 18 attempt suicide each year, and about 4,500 of those attempts are fatal. Suicide is the third leading cause of death among children ages 10-14 and the second among people 15 to 34 years old. More... Read More