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Liaisons Partner With Faculty to Offer Support and Solutions

July 26, 2017
When UC Merced faculty members participated in last year’s Visioning and Change Alignment Summits, many provided feedback that cited a critical need for staff support with a variety of administrative tasks needed to help them successfully accomplish their research and teaching missions....

Valley Public Radio: Utility Companies Embrace Drones For Efficiency, Safety

July 26, 2017

THE Journal: UC Merced Hosts Summer STEM Academy for Central Valley Students

July 25, 2017

Summer STEM Academy Aims to Prepare Valley Students for College

July 24, 2017
The leap from high school to college is an enormous intellectual hurdle. But UC Merced engineering Professor Yanbao Ma wants to ease the transition by better preparing Central Valley students for the rigors of university-level coursework. That’s why he teamed up with CalTeach to launch the...

ABC 30: UC Merced partnering up with Fresno schools to help increase African American student population

July 18, 2017

Eager to Make a Difference, Student Focuses on Human Rights

July 17, 2017
Adriana Diaz Mireles is on a mission. Inspired by coursework on human rights, the UC Merced senior is intent on pursuing a career in humanitarian advocacy. But first, she’s working to make a name for herself before graduating. This summer, Diaz Mireles traveled to New York to participate in the...

Venture Lab to Launch NSF I-Corps Site for Business Development

July 12, 2017
UC Merced recently joined the ranks of six other UCs and 70 other universities around the country when it was selected as the newest site for the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps program (NSF I-Corps). Now, with application deadlines looming, I-Corps is actively seeking its first cohort...

'Kopi's Hometown Connections' Highlights Merced 2020 Project

July 7, 2017
Kopi's Hometown Connections, a popular series of features on KMPH Fox 26 in Fresno, recently visited Merced to highlight the city's many successes, including the rapid growth of its university. Kopi spoke with UC Merced's Richard Cummings about the ambitious, international award-winning...

Study: Critical Sierra Meadows Being Overtaken by Forest

July 5, 2017
Subalpine meadows are among the Sierra Nevada’s most enchantingly picturesque landscapes. These sparsely wooded, grassy expanses are home to plants and animals found nowhere else, and they play an important role in regulating the flow of water from the Sierra snowpack to the rest of the state. But...

Biologists Attend Prestigious Summer Teaching Institutes

June 30, 2017
UC Merced Professor Marcos Garcia-Ojeda and lecturer Kamal Dulai have received Macmillan Travel Awards to learn how to bring more effective teaching into the STEM classroom. The $500 awards cover lodging and travel to one of the Summer Institutes on Scientific Teaching’s multi-day regional teaching...

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